Triple

T7678998
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Houston County, Alabama E173939 entity
Predicate hasTown P847 FINISHED
Object Columbia, Alabama
Columbia, Alabama is a small town in southeastern Alabama that forms part of the Dothan metropolitan area and is one of the older settlements in Houston County.
E691926 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: Columbia, Alabama | Statement: [Houston County, Alabama, hasTown, Columbia, Alabama]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Columbia, Alabama
Context triple: [Houston County, Alabama, hasTown, Columbia, Alabama]
  • A. Centre, Alabama
    Centre, Alabama is a small city in Cherokee County known as the "Crappie Capital of the World" due to its proximity to the popular fishing destination Weiss Lake.
  • B. Cordova, Alabama
    Cordova, Alabama is a small city in north-central Alabama known historically as a former textile and coal-mining community along the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River.
  • C. Steele, Alabama
    Steele, Alabama is a small town in northeastern Alabama known for its rural character and location within St. Clair County.
  • D. Sylvania, Alabama
    Sylvania, Alabama is a small rural town in northeastern Alabama known for its close-knit community and location atop Sand Mountain.
  • E. Roanoke, Alabama
    Roanoke, Alabama is a small city in eastern Alabama known for its rural character and role as a local commercial and community hub.
  • 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: Columbia, Alabama
Triple: [Houston County, Alabama, hasTown, Columbia, Alabama]
Generated description
Columbia, Alabama is a small town in southeastern Alabama that forms part of the Dothan metropolitan area and is one of the older settlements in Houston County.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Columbia, Alabama
Target entity description: Columbia, Alabama is a small town in southeastern Alabama that forms part of the Dothan metropolitan area and is one of the older settlements in Houston County.
  • A. Centre, Alabama
    Centre, Alabama is a small city in Cherokee County known as the "Crappie Capital of the World" due to its proximity to the popular fishing destination Weiss Lake.
  • B. Cordova, Alabama
    Cordova, Alabama is a small city in north-central Alabama known historically as a former textile and coal-mining community along the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River.
  • C. Steele, Alabama
    Steele, Alabama is a small town in northeastern Alabama known for its rural character and location within St. Clair County.
  • D. Sylvania, Alabama
    Sylvania, Alabama is a small rural town in northeastern Alabama known for its close-knit community and location atop Sand Mountain.
  • E. Roanoke, Alabama
    Roanoke, Alabama is a small city in eastern Alabama known for its rural character and role as a local commercial and community hub.
  • 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_69c6995703e0819081de77361b602e78 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c701fe2cc88190b5fd5e1378c32e5b completed March 27, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c9c89d62c08190b575d7e1058afbeb completed March 30, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c9c9347bf08190a0b7db37ad510785 completed March 30, 2026, 12:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c9c98bbab88190801098d78e68de54 completed March 30, 2026, 12:53 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:01 p.m.