Triple

T893514
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter Mondale E19291 entity
Predicate placeOfBirth P1 FINISHED
Object Ceylon, Minnesota, United States
Ceylon, Minnesota, United States is a small rural town best known as the birthplace of former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale.
 E106028 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: Ceylon, Minnesota, United States | Statement: [Walter Mondale, placeOfBirth, Ceylon, Minnesota, United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ceylon, Minnesota, United States
Context triple: [Walter Mondale, placeOfBirth, Ceylon, Minnesota, United States]
  • A. Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon)
    Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon) was a former Dutch colonial territory on the island of Sri Lanka, controlled mainly for its strategic ports and lucrative cinnamon trade from the mid-17th to late 18th century.
  • B. Northern Province, Sri Lanka
    Northern Province, Sri Lanka is the island nation’s northernmost province, centered on the Jaffna Peninsula and known for its Tamil cultural heritage and post-civil war reconstruction.
  • C. Southern Province, Sri Lanka
    Southern Province, Sri Lanka is a coastal administrative region in the south of Sri Lanka known for its historic cities, beaches, and cultural heritage.
  • D. Kingdom of Kandy (interior Sri Lanka)
    The Kingdom of Kandy was an independent Sinhalese monarchy in the central highlands of Sri Lanka that long resisted European colonial control before finally falling to the British in 1815.
  • E. Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka is an island nation in the Indian Ocean known for its rich cultural heritage, diverse landscapes, and strategic location off the southern coast of India.
  • 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: Ceylon, Minnesota, United States
Triple: [Walter Mondale, placeOfBirth, Ceylon, Minnesota, United States]
Generated description
Ceylon, Minnesota, United States is a small rural town best known as the birthplace of former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ceylon, Minnesota, United States
Target entity description: Ceylon, Minnesota, United States is a small rural town best known as the birthplace of former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale.
  • A. Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon)
    Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon) was a former Dutch colonial territory on the island of Sri Lanka, controlled mainly for its strategic ports and lucrative cinnamon trade from the mid-17th to late 18th century.
  • B. Northern Province, Sri Lanka
    Northern Province, Sri Lanka is the island nation’s northernmost province, centered on the Jaffna Peninsula and known for its Tamil cultural heritage and post-civil war reconstruction.
  • C. Southern Province, Sri Lanka
    Southern Province, Sri Lanka is a coastal administrative region in the south of Sri Lanka known for its historic cities, beaches, and cultural heritage.
  • D. Kingdom of Kandy (interior Sri Lanka)
    The Kingdom of Kandy was an independent Sinhalese monarchy in the central highlands of Sri Lanka that long resisted European colonial control before finally falling to the British in 1815.
  • E. Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka is an island nation in the Indian Ocean known for its rich cultural heritage, diverse landscapes, and strategic location off the southern coast of India.
  • 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_69a4939d37188190848be3d426ebc9ae completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ad212cd8819091eb1b7d606f5afd completed March 1, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7c02772208190ac86dd885728e89c completed March 4, 2026, 5:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7c2f036548190bc018c0cbe02d0ca completed March 4, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7c38925b481909133a1b098b08fa9 completed March 4, 2026, 5:30 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.