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]
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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.
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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.
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C.
Hiram Blanchard
Hiram Blanchard was a 19th-century Canadian lawyer and politician who became the inaugural premier of Nova Scotia following Canadian Confederation.
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D.
Josiah Eaton
Josiah Eaton was an individual significant enough in local history that the town of Eatonville, Florida, was named in his honor.
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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.
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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.
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C.
Hiram Blanchard
Hiram Blanchard was a 19th-century Canadian lawyer and politician who became the inaugural premier of Nova Scotia following Canadian Confederation.
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D.
Josiah Eaton
Josiah Eaton was an individual significant enough in local history that the town of Eatonville, Florida, was named in his honor.
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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.