Triple

T746194
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject O'Brien County, Iowa E15346 entity
Predicate largestCity P235 FINISHED
Object Sheldon, Iowa
Sheldon, Iowa is a small northwestern Iowa city that serves as a regional hub for commerce, education, and transportation in O'Brien County and the surrounding area.
E111662 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: Sheldon, Iowa | Statement: [O'Brien County, Iowa, largestCity, Sheldon, Iowa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheldon, Iowa
Context triple: [O'Brien County, Iowa, largestCity, Sheldon, Iowa]
  • A. McClelland, Iowa
    McClelland, Iowa is a small rural community located in Pottawattamie County in the western part of the state.
  • B. Hancock, Iowa
    Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
  • C. Eldon, Iowa
    Eldon, Iowa is a small town best known as the setting of Grant Wood’s iconic painting "American Gothic," featuring the now-famous white farmhouse.
  • D. Lowden, Iowa
    Lowden, Iowa is a small rural city in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
  • E. Pleasantville, Iowa
    Pleasantville, Iowa is a small rural city in south-central Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
  • 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: Sheldon, Iowa
Triple: [O'Brien County, Iowa, largestCity, Sheldon, Iowa]
Generated description
Sheldon, Iowa is a small northwestern Iowa city that serves as a regional hub for commerce, education, and transportation in O'Brien County and the surrounding area.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheldon, Iowa
Target entity description: Sheldon, Iowa is a small northwestern Iowa city that serves as a regional hub for commerce, education, and transportation in O'Brien County and the surrounding area.
  • A. McClelland, Iowa
    McClelland, Iowa is a small rural community located in Pottawattamie County in the western part of the state.
  • B. Hancock, Iowa
    Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
  • C. Eldon, Iowa
    Eldon, Iowa is a small town best known as the setting of Grant Wood’s iconic painting "American Gothic," featuring the now-famous white farmhouse.
  • D. Lowden, Iowa
    Lowden, Iowa is a small rural city in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
  • E. Pleasantville, Iowa
    Pleasantville, Iowa is a small rural city in south-central Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
  • 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_69a49358aa308190adbc9b5a0a2adcf9 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a62ca1d081908e3191411f86498d completed March 1, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a826c4a35081909903e42dfa56d582 completed March 4, 2026, 12:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a853f4c7208190b86f59bac6795436 completed March 4, 2026, 3:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a854742cc48190960031b7af060369 completed March 4, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.