Triple

T8984279
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Coal City, Illinois E214616 entity
Predicate locatedInRegion P40 FINISHED
Object northeastern Illinois
Northeastern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that includes the Chicago metropolitan area and its surrounding communities.
E36469 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: northeastern Illinois | Statement: [Coal City, Illinois, locatedInRegion, northeastern Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: northeastern Illinois
Context triple: [Coal City, Illinois, locatedInRegion, northeastern Illinois]
  • A. Northeastern Illinois
    Northeastern Illinois is a metropolitan region of Illinois that includes the Chicago area and its surrounding counties, serving as a major hub for transportation, commerce, and culture in the Midwest.
  • B. northern Illinois
    Northern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that includes the area around Rockford and the far north counties bordering Wisconsin.
  • C. eastern Illinois
    Eastern Illinois is the region comprising the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Illinois, bordering Indiana and encompassing a mix of agricultural areas, small cities, and college towns.
  • D. Central Illinois
    Central Illinois is a predominantly rural and small-city region in the middle of the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by its agricultural economy and mid-sized urban centers such as Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, and Champaign-Urbana.
  • E. Central District of Illinois
    The Central District of Illinois is a federal judicial district in Illinois that handles U.S. district court cases arising from the central portion of the state.
  • 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: northeastern Illinois
Triple: [Coal City, Illinois, locatedInRegion, northeastern Illinois]
Generated description
Northeastern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that includes the Chicago metropolitan area and its surrounding communities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: northeastern Illinois
Target entity description: Northeastern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that includes the Chicago metropolitan area and its surrounding communities.
  • A. Northeastern Illinois chosen
    Northeastern Illinois is a metropolitan region of Illinois that includes the Chicago area and its surrounding counties, serving as a major hub for transportation, commerce, and culture in the Midwest.
  • B. northern Illinois
    Northern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that includes the area around Rockford and the far north counties bordering Wisconsin.
  • C. eastern Illinois
    Eastern Illinois is the region comprising the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Illinois, bordering Indiana and encompassing a mix of agricultural areas, small cities, and college towns.
  • D. Central Illinois
    Central Illinois is a predominantly rural and small-city region in the middle of the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by its agricultural economy and mid-sized urban centers such as Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, and Champaign-Urbana.
  • E. Central District of Illinois
    The Central District of Illinois is a federal judicial district in Illinois that handles U.S. district court cases arising from the central portion of the state.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca839f76bc8190a4b7123cdd682199 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc67ecc5188190a6fb4d5456893121 completed April 1, 2026, 12:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfeb51c9fc81908d86858f10c9ab62 completed April 3, 2026, 4:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfee911e3481909b66355042375349 completed April 3, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfeee14c788190b0086a07203afc25 completed April 3, 2026, 4:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:03 p.m.