Triple

T7608067
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Salah ad Din Governorate E180158 entity
Predicate containsCity P294 FINISHED
Object Balad
Balad is a city in Iraq’s Salah ad Din Governorate, known for its strategic location north of Baghdad and its nearby military air base.
 E676737 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: Balad | Statement: [Salah ad Din Governorate, containsCity, Balad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Balad
Context triple: [Salah ad Din Governorate, containsCity, Balad]
  • A. Balad
    Balad is a town in Somalia’s Banaadir region, located north of the capital Mogadishu and known as an agricultural and trading center along the Shabelle River.
  • B. Umm al-Bilad
    Umm al-Bilad is an honorific title for the ancient city of Balkh, historically a major cultural and commercial center in the region of Greater Khorasan (in present-day northern Afghanistan).
  • C. Balikh
    Balikh is a river in northern Mesopotamia, flowing through modern-day Syria as a tributary of the Euphrates.
  • D. Kut-al-Amara
    Kut-al-Amara is a town in southeastern Iraq on the Tigris River, historically notable as the site of a major World War I siege and British-Indian Army defeat.
  • E. Jabala
    Jabala is a historic coastal city in modern-day Syria that served as a significant urban center during the Crusader-era Principality of Antioch.
  • 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: Balad
Triple: [Salah ad Din Governorate, containsCity, Balad]
Generated description
Balad is a city in Iraq’s Salah ad Din Governorate, known for its strategic location north of Baghdad and its nearby military air base.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Balad
Target entity description: Balad is a city in Iraq’s Salah ad Din Governorate, known for its strategic location north of Baghdad and its nearby military air base.
  • A. Balad
    Balad is a town in Somalia’s Banaadir region, located north of the capital Mogadishu and known as an agricultural and trading center along the Shabelle River.
  • B. Umm al-Bilad
    Umm al-Bilad is an honorific title for the ancient city of Balkh, historically a major cultural and commercial center in the region of Greater Khorasan (in present-day northern Afghanistan).
  • C. Balikh
    Balikh is a river in northern Mesopotamia, flowing through modern-day Syria as a tributary of the Euphrates.
  • D. Kut-al-Amara
    Kut-al-Amara is a town in southeastern Iraq on the Tigris River, historically notable as the site of a major World War I siege and British-Indian Army defeat.
  • E. Jabala
    Jabala is a historic coastal city in modern-day Syria that served as a significant urban center during the Crusader-era Principality of Antioch.
  • 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_69c69f3567008190ab01d2ca7b53584a completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6fa1de8a4819091f9e9347835ce16 completed March 27, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8685c050c8190b05fa19c9ae2c827 completed March 28, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c869e90ccc8190a3dce61632e0c98d completed March 28, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c86a8a46608190bd43dd439f9ca97c completed March 28, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:54 p.m.