Triple

T11401357
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Patowmack Canal E270115 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Little Falls Canal
Little Falls Canal is a historic 18th-century navigation canal on the Potomac River near Great Falls, built to bypass rapids and improve river transport as part of George Washington’s Patowmack Canal project.
E925201 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: Little Falls Canal | Statement: [Patowmack Canal, hasPart, Little Falls Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Little Falls Canal
Context triple: [Patowmack Canal, hasPart, Little Falls Canal]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Burlington Canal
    The Burlington Canal is a navigational waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides ship access between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour.
  • 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. Lehigh Canal
    The Lehigh Canal is a historic 19th-century navigation canal in eastern Pennsylvania that was built to transport anthracite coal and fostered early American industrial development along the Lehigh River.
  • 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: Little Falls Canal
Triple: [Patowmack Canal, hasPart, Little Falls Canal]
Generated description
Little Falls Canal is a historic 18th-century navigation canal on the Potomac River near Great Falls, built to bypass rapids and improve river transport as part of George Washington’s Patowmack Canal project.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Little Falls Canal
Target entity description: Little Falls Canal is a historic 18th-century navigation canal on the Potomac River near Great Falls, built to bypass rapids and improve river transport as part of George Washington’s Patowmack Canal project.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Burlington Canal
    The Burlington Canal is a navigational waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides ship access between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour.
  • 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. Lehigh Canal
    The Lehigh Canal is a historic 19th-century navigation canal in eastern Pennsylvania that was built to transport anthracite coal and fostered early American industrial development along the Lehigh River.
  • 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_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_69e5b834cee48190ac09c1e1df4c12d0 completed April 20, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5c289b5ac81909bdaec61a66f6654 completed April 20, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5c43f4b4c8190aeae600364d2e4ac completed April 20, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.