Triple

T10175457
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thames and Severn Canal E235840 entity
Predicate engineer P184 FINISHED
Object Josiah Clowes
Josiah Clowes was a civil engineer known for his work on major British canal projects during the late 18th century, including the Thames and Severn Canal.
E874682 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: Josiah Clowes | Statement: [Thames and Severn Canal, engineer, Josiah Clowes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Josiah Clowes
Context triple: [Thames and Severn Canal, engineer, Josiah Clowes]
  • A. Josiah Orne Low
    Josiah Orne Low was a member of the prominent Low family, a New England lineage known for its mercantile, civic, and social influence in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • B. Shubael Gorham
    Shubael Gorham was a member of the prominent Gorham family of colonial New England, known through his connections to early Plymouth Colony descendants such as Desire Howland.
  • C. Hiram Blanchard
    Hiram Blanchard was a 19th-century Canadian lawyer and politician who became the inaugural premier of Nova Scotia following Canadian Confederation.
  • D. Josiah Eaton
    Josiah Eaton was an individual significant enough in local history that the town of Eatonville, Florida, was named in his honor.
  • E. James Mott
    James Mott was a 19th-century American Quaker merchant and reformer known for his support of abolitionism and women’s rights alongside his wife, Lucretia Mott.
  • 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: Josiah Clowes
Triple: [Thames and Severn Canal, engineer, Josiah Clowes]
Generated description
Josiah Clowes was a civil engineer known for his work on major British canal projects during the late 18th century, including the Thames and Severn Canal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Josiah Clowes
Target entity description: Josiah Clowes was a civil engineer known for his work on major British canal projects during the late 18th century, including the Thames and Severn Canal.
  • A. Josiah Orne Low
    Josiah Orne Low was a member of the prominent Low family, a New England lineage known for its mercantile, civic, and social influence in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • B. Shubael Gorham
    Shubael Gorham was a member of the prominent Gorham family of colonial New England, known through his connections to early Plymouth Colony descendants such as Desire Howland.
  • C. Hiram Blanchard
    Hiram Blanchard was a 19th-century Canadian lawyer and politician who became the inaugural premier of Nova Scotia following Canadian Confederation.
  • D. Josiah Eaton
    Josiah Eaton was an individual significant enough in local history that the town of Eatonville, Florida, was named in his honor.
  • E. James Mott
    James Mott was a 19th-century American Quaker merchant and reformer known for his support of abolitionism and women’s rights alongside his wife, Lucretia Mott.
  • 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_69ca84d1d5f88190ab878a1021ecff68 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdecd26a8c8190a391b9d5e47ebb72 completed April 2, 2026, 4:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d95e437d4481908a722a6648b62b39 completed April 10, 2026, 8:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d96296e1a0819099dc7f778afe7bd7 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d9635c849c8190b5fff3d9db3b33a1 completed April 10, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:11 p.m.