Triple

T9978527
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering E196390 entity
Predicate hasDepartment P35 FINISHED
Object Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in civil infrastructure, environmental systems, and construction engineering and management.
E834061 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: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction | Statement: [Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering, hasDepartment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction
Context triple: [Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering, hasDepartment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction]
  • A. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
  • B. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Nagaoka University of Technology focused on education and research in infrastructure, environmental protection, and sustainable development.
  • C. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure design, construction, and environmental protection within the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science.
  • D. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit focused on education and research in infrastructure, construction, and environmental systems within the broader field of engineering.
  • E. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit specializing in infrastructure, environmental systems, and related engineering disciplines within the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  • 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: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction
Triple: [Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering, hasDepartment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction]
Generated description
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in civil infrastructure, environmental systems, and construction engineering and management.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction
Target entity description: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in civil infrastructure, environmental systems, and construction engineering and management.
  • A. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
  • B. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Nagaoka University of Technology focused on education and research in infrastructure, environmental protection, and sustainable development.
  • C. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit specializing in infrastructure, environmental systems, and related engineering disciplines within the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  • D. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit within Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
  • E. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit focused on education and research in infrastructure, construction, and environmental systems within the broader field of engineering.
  • 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_69ca82efbce081908179b4b9c65096eb completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb84ef8ac8190abbe78b7611c5309 completed April 2, 2026, 12:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d257d3fc308190b82b3731139d15cb completed April 5, 2026, 12:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d258b6d9c0819096dbd3e85dc6adfc completed April 5, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d25981db3c8190b7b4935cdcc1fe1c completed April 5, 2026, 12:45 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:49 p.m.