Triple

T11401356
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Patowmack Canal E270115 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Great Falls Canal
The Great Falls Canal is a historic 18th-century canal and lock system along the Potomac River, built to bypass the Great Falls as part of George Washington’s Patowmack Canal project to improve inland navigation.
E270115 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: Great Falls Canal | Statement: [Patowmack Canal, hasPart, Great Falls Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Falls Canal
Context triple: [Patowmack Canal, hasPart, Great Falls Canal]
  • A. Saint Marys Falls Canal
    Saint Marys Falls Canal is a key shipping canal at Sault Ste. Marie that enables vessels to bypass the rapids of the St. Marys River between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.
  • B. Turners Falls Canal
    Turners Falls Canal is a historic 19th-century industrial waterway in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, built to harness the Connecticut River’s power for mills and navigation.
  • C. Bellows Falls Canal
    Bellows Falls Canal is a historic navigation and power canal in Bellows Falls, Vermont, built to bypass the Connecticut River falls and support local industry.
  • D. Blackstone Canal
    The Blackstone Canal is a historic 19th-century waterway in the northeastern United States that played a key role in early industrial transportation and the development of mill towns in the Blackstone Valley.
  • E. Patowmack Canal
    The Patowmack Canal was an early American canal project along the Potomac River, championed by George Washington to improve inland navigation and trade in the late 18th century.
  • 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: Great Falls Canal
Triple: [Patowmack Canal, hasPart, Great Falls Canal]
Generated description
The Great Falls Canal is a historic 18th-century canal and lock system along the Potomac River, built to bypass the Great Falls as part of George Washington’s Patowmack Canal project to improve inland navigation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Falls Canal
Target entity description: The Great Falls Canal is a historic 18th-century canal and lock system along the Potomac River, built to bypass the Great Falls as part of George Washington’s Patowmack Canal project to improve inland navigation.
  • A. Saint Marys Falls Canal
    Saint Marys Falls Canal is a key shipping canal at Sault Ste. Marie that enables vessels to bypass the rapids of the St. Marys River between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.
  • B. Turners Falls Canal
    Turners Falls Canal is a historic 19th-century industrial waterway in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, built to harness the Connecticut River’s power for mills and navigation.
  • C. Bellows Falls Canal
    Bellows Falls Canal is a historic navigation and power canal in Bellows Falls, Vermont, built to bypass the Connecticut River falls and support local industry.
  • D. Blackstone Canal
    The Blackstone Canal is a historic 19th-century waterway in the northeastern United States that played a key role in early industrial transportation and the development of mill towns in the Blackstone Valley.
  • E. Patowmack Canal chosen
    The Patowmack Canal was an early American canal project along the Potomac River, championed by George Washington to improve inland navigation and trade in the late 18th century.
  • 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_69d6aacdbc6c8190af6dc3d5f5d22836 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d80148e2048190a716b515d78efdd1 completed April 9, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e58d244870819091e8331eb3bd792d completed April 20, 2026, 2:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e59777b1208190a33a50da286535ee completed April 20, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5a3cf9d388190944340af484b3a54 completed April 20, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.