Triple
T11401412
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Potowmack Company |
E270116
|
entity |
| Predicate | builtStructure |
P1028
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Patowmack Canal at Great Falls |
E270115
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Patowmack Canal at Great Falls | Statement: [Potowmack Company, builtStructure, Patowmack Canal at Great Falls]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patowmack Canal at Great Falls Context triple: [Potowmack Company, builtStructure, Patowmack Canal at Great Falls]
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A.
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.
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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.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69e5e8cc338081908da977b5b7c6bef3 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 8:50 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.