Triple

T5811167
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Taklamakan Desert E128869 entity
Predicate crossedBy P416 FINISHED
Object Tarim Desert Highway
The Tarim Desert Highway is a major roadway in China that traverses the heart of the Taklamakan Desert, providing a crucial transport link across one of the world's largest shifting-sand deserts.
E547589 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: Tarim Desert Highway | Statement: [Taklamakan Desert, crossedBy, Tarim Desert Highway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tarim Desert Highway
Context triple: [Taklamakan Desert, crossedBy, Tarim Desert Highway]
  • A. Karakoram Highway
    The Karakoram Highway is a high-altitude international road linking Pakistan and China through the Karakoram mountain range, renowned as one of the world’s highest paved routes and a key part of the ancient Silk Road corridor.
  • B. Pamir Highway
    Pamir Highway is a high-altitude road in Central Asia, famed as one of the world’s most remote and scenic driving routes through the Pamir Mountains.
  • C. Beijing–Tibet Expressway
    The Beijing–Tibet Expressway is a major Chinese highway that connects Beijing with Tibet, traversing several provinces and serving as a key route into the Tibetan Plateau.
  • D. Tea Horse Road
    The Tea Horse Road was an ancient network of trade routes in Southwest China used primarily to transport tea to Tibet and beyond in exchange for horses, linking Chinese, Tibetan, and Southeast Asian cultures.
  • E. Hexi Corridor
    The Hexi Corridor is a historically vital stretch of the Silk Road in northwestern China, serving as a strategic gateway between central China and Central Asia.
  • 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: Tarim Desert Highway
Triple: [Taklamakan Desert, crossedBy, Tarim Desert Highway]
Generated description
The Tarim Desert Highway is a major roadway in China that traverses the heart of the Taklamakan Desert, providing a crucial transport link across one of the world's largest shifting-sand deserts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tarim Desert Highway
Target entity description: The Tarim Desert Highway is a major roadway in China that traverses the heart of the Taklamakan Desert, providing a crucial transport link across one of the world's largest shifting-sand deserts.
  • A. Karakoram Highway
    The Karakoram Highway is a high-altitude international road linking Pakistan and China through the Karakoram mountain range, renowned as one of the world’s highest paved routes and a key part of the ancient Silk Road corridor.
  • B. Pamir Highway
    Pamir Highway is a high-altitude road in Central Asia, famed as one of the world’s most remote and scenic driving routes through the Pamir Mountains.
  • C. Beijing–Tibet Expressway
    The Beijing–Tibet Expressway is a major Chinese highway that connects Beijing with Tibet, traversing several provinces and serving as a key route into the Tibetan Plateau.
  • D. Tea Horse Road
    The Tea Horse Road was an ancient network of trade routes in Southwest China used primarily to transport tea to Tibet and beyond in exchange for horses, linking Chinese, Tibetan, and Southeast Asian cultures.
  • E. Hexi Corridor
    The Hexi Corridor is a historically vital stretch of the Silk Road in northwestern China, serving as a strategic gateway between central China and Central Asia.
  • 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_69c0084788848190bcf71f6bc5d71597 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02b538cd08190a7dac378898059b9 completed March 22, 2026, 5:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c09844f0b881908d4165e550f75d47 completed March 23, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0990bf38081908c09c5dfe660c35b completed March 23, 2026, 1:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c099bd26fc8190a58bf483a6d4cbca completed March 23, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:52 p.m.