Triple

T7383328
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ford County, Illinois E170317 entity
Predicate countySeat P383 FINISHED
Object Paxton, Illinois
Paxton, Illinois is a small city in central Illinois that serves as an administrative, commercial, and community hub for the surrounding rural region.
E686365 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: Paxton, Illinois | Statement: [Ford County, Illinois, countySeat, Paxton, Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paxton, Illinois
Context triple: [Ford County, Illinois, countySeat, Paxton, Illinois]
  • A. Petersburg, Illinois
    Petersburg, Illinois is a small historic city in central Illinois best known as the county seat of Menard County and its proximity to New Salem State Historic Site, where Abraham Lincoln once lived.
  • B. Pawnee, Illinois
    Pawnee, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois known as a rural residential community within the Springfield metropolitan area.
  • C. El Paso, Illinois
    El Paso, Illinois is a small Midwestern city in Woodford County known historically as a railroad town and part of the Peoria metropolitan area.
  • D. Montgomery, Illinois
    Montgomery, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area spanning Kane and Kendall counties along the Fox River.
  • E. Pontiac, Illinois
    Pontiac, Illinois is a small city in central Illinois known for its historic Route 66 attractions, museums, and preserved downtown architecture.
  • 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: Paxton, Illinois
Triple: [Ford County, Illinois, countySeat, Paxton, Illinois]
Generated description
Paxton, Illinois is a small city in central Illinois that serves as an administrative, commercial, and community hub for the surrounding rural region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paxton, Illinois
Target entity description: Paxton, Illinois is a small city in central Illinois that serves as an administrative, commercial, and community hub for the surrounding rural region.
  • A. Petersburg, Illinois
    Petersburg, Illinois is a small historic city in central Illinois best known as the county seat of Menard County and its proximity to New Salem State Historic Site, where Abraham Lincoln once lived.
  • B. Pawnee, Illinois
    Pawnee, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois known as a rural residential community within the Springfield metropolitan area.
  • C. El Paso, Illinois
    El Paso, Illinois is a small Midwestern city in Woodford County known historically as a railroad town and part of the Peoria metropolitan area.
  • D. Montgomery, Illinois
    Montgomery, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area spanning Kane and Kendall counties along the Fox River.
  • E. Pontiac, Illinois
    Pontiac, Illinois is a small city in central Illinois known for its historic Route 66 attractions, museums, and preserved downtown architecture.
  • 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_69c68a5d0ed08190b6d361e68f813330 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f1cb0b8881908132383c0efb0503 completed March 27, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8be10c5b081908210981ce9c45bd9 completed March 29, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8bface14c8190a78d7ed43316bffd completed March 29, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8c02e7a548190b2c5ad84e4c3f1fb completed March 29, 2026, 6:01 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:08 p.m.