Triple

T9688514
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Carthage College E234476 entity
Predicate foundingLocation P40 FINISHED
Object Hillsboro, Illinois
Hillsboro, Illinois is a small city in Montgomery County known for its historic Midwestern character and role in regional education and commerce.
E863895 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: Hillsboro, Illinois | Statement: [Carthage College, foundingLocation, Hillsboro, Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hillsboro, Illinois
Context triple: [Carthage College, foundingLocation, Hillsboro, Illinois]
  • A. Hartford, Illinois
    Hartford, Illinois is a small village in Madison County known historically for its proximity to the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and its association with early American exploration and industry.
  • B. Hainesville, Illinois
    Hainesville, Illinois is a small suburban village in northeastern Illinois known as one of the older settled communities in Lake County.
  • C. Union Hill, Illinois
    Union Hill, Illinois is a small village located in Kankakee County within the Kankakee metropolitan area in northeastern Illinois.
  • D. Centreville, Illinois
    Centreville, Illinois was a small, economically challenged suburban community in St. Clair County that formed part of the greater East St. Louis metropolitan area.
  • E. Williamsville, Illinois
    Williamsville, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois that functions as a residential community within the Springfield metropolitan area.
  • 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: Hillsboro, Illinois
Triple: [Carthage College, foundingLocation, Hillsboro, Illinois]
Generated description
Hillsboro, Illinois is a small city in Montgomery County known for its historic Midwestern character and role in regional education and commerce.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hillsboro, Illinois
Target entity description: Hillsboro, Illinois is a small city in Montgomery County known for its historic Midwestern character and role in regional education and commerce.
  • A. Hartford, Illinois
    Hartford, Illinois is a small village in Madison County known historically for its proximity to the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and its association with early American exploration and industry.
  • B. Hainesville, Illinois
    Hainesville, Illinois is a small suburban village in northeastern Illinois known as one of the older settled communities in Lake County.
  • C. Union Hill, Illinois
    Union Hill, Illinois is a small village located in Kankakee County within the Kankakee metropolitan area in northeastern Illinois.
  • D. Centreville, Illinois
    Centreville, Illinois was a small, economically challenged suburban community in St. Clair County that formed part of the greater East St. Louis metropolitan area.
  • E. Williamsville, Illinois
    Williamsville, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois that functions as a residential community within the Springfield metropolitan area.
  • 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_69ca84ca73208190957a900c8543bdcc completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9d019d40819095059a4d6167900a completed April 1, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d87e177fcc81908613409c03995ea8 completed April 10, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d886c325c4819089dac35eb26e7961 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d88dbbe97c8190861e08f3ff39f91b completed April 10, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:17 p.m.