Triple

T5130507
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oceana County, Michigan E115684 entity
Predicate containsSettlement P847 FINISHED
Object Shelby, Michigan
Shelby, Michigan is a small village in western Michigan known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to Lake Michigan’s shoreline.
E691104 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Shelby, Michigan | Statement: [Oceana County, Michigan, containsSettlement, Shelby, Michigan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shelby, Michigan
Context triple: [Oceana County, Michigan, containsSettlement, Shelby, Michigan]
  • A. Shelby Township, Michigan
    Shelby Township, Michigan is a large suburban community in southeastern Michigan known for its residential neighborhoods, parks, and proximity to the Detroit metropolitan area.
  • B. Birmingham, Michigan
    Birmingham, Michigan is an affluent suburban city in the Detroit metropolitan area known for its upscale shopping district, walkable downtown, and high quality of life.
  • C. Jackson, Michigan
    Jackson, Michigan is a mid-sized city in south-central Michigan historically notable as the birthplace of the Republican Party in the 1850s.
  • D. Bessemer, Michigan
    Bessemer, Michigan is a small city in the western Upper Peninsula known as an administrative and commercial hub for the surrounding Gogebic County region.
  • E. Wyandotte, Michigan
    Wyandotte, Michigan is a small industrial city and Downriver suburb of Detroit located along the western shore of the Detroit River.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Shelby, Michigan
Triple: [Oceana County, Michigan, containsSettlement, Shelby, Michigan]
Generated description
Shelby, Michigan is a small village in western Michigan known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to Lake Michigan’s shoreline.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shelby, Michigan
Target entity description: Shelby, Michigan is a small village in western Michigan known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to Lake Michigan’s shoreline.
  • A. Shelby Township, Michigan
    Shelby Township, Michigan is a large suburban community in southeastern Michigan known for its residential neighborhoods, parks, and proximity to the Detroit metropolitan area.
  • B. Birmingham, Michigan
    Birmingham, Michigan is an affluent suburban city in the Detroit metropolitan area known for its upscale shopping district, walkable downtown, and high quality of life.
  • C. Jackson, Michigan
    Jackson, Michigan is a mid-sized city in south-central Michigan historically notable as the birthplace of the Republican Party in the 1850s.
  • D. Bessemer, Michigan
    Bessemer, Michigan is a small city in the western Upper Peninsula known as an administrative and commercial hub for the surrounding Gogebic County region.
  • E. Wyandotte, Michigan
    Wyandotte, Michigan is a small industrial city and Downriver suburb of Detroit located along the western shore of the Detroit River.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69bd444426bc819099ccd23f141e22aa completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7827c764819086da3b79f2020224 completed March 20, 2026, 4:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c968c9a1a48190b6ea5bb08ff745af completed March 29, 2026, 6 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c969a21a38819080fdec02bba37248 completed March 29, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c96ae5f18c8190ab64ad0f10a0036f completed March 29, 2026, 6:09 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:42 p.m.