Triple

T11471577
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Birmingham Canal Navigations E271920 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Wednesbury Old Canal
Wednesbury Old Canal is a historic branch of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands, England, built during the early development of the region’s industrial canal network.
 E929623 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: Wednesbury Old Canal | Statement: [Birmingham Canal Navigations, hasPart, Wednesbury Old Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wednesbury Old Canal
Context triple: [Birmingham Canal Navigations, hasPart, Wednesbury Old Canal]
  • A. Wyrley and Essington Canal
    The Wyrley and Essington Canal is an historic inland waterway in the West Midlands of England, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and serving former industrial towns such as Walsall.
  • B. Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
    The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal that forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, linking Birmingham with Fazeley and connecting to wider Midlands waterways.
  • C. Walsall Canal
    The Walsall Canal is a historic narrow canal in the West Midlands, England, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and serving the industrial town of Walsall.
  • D. Stourbridge Canal
    Stourbridge Canal is a historic English waterway in the West Midlands, known for its role in the Industrial Revolution and its network of locks and connections to other major canals.
  • E. Warwick and Birmingham Canal
    The Warwick and Birmingham Canal was a historic English waterway linking Birmingham to Warwick, later incorporated into the Grand Union Canal network.
  • 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: Wednesbury Old Canal
Triple: [Birmingham Canal Navigations, hasPart, Wednesbury Old Canal]
Generated description
Wednesbury Old Canal is a historic branch of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands, England, built during the early development of the region’s industrial canal network.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wednesbury Old Canal
Target entity description: Wednesbury Old Canal is a historic branch of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands, England, built during the early development of the region’s industrial canal network.
  • A. Wyrley and Essington Canal
    The Wyrley and Essington Canal is an historic inland waterway in the West Midlands of England, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and serving former industrial towns such as Walsall.
  • B. Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
    The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal that forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, linking Birmingham with Fazeley and connecting to wider Midlands waterways.
  • C. Walsall Canal
    The Walsall Canal is a historic narrow canal in the West Midlands, England, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and serving the industrial town of Walsall.
  • D. Stourbridge Canal
    Stourbridge Canal is a historic English waterway in the West Midlands, known for its role in the Industrial Revolution and its network of locks and connections to other major canals.
  • E. Warwick and Birmingham Canal
    The Warwick and Birmingham Canal was a historic English waterway linking Birmingham to Warwick, later incorporated into the Grand Union Canal network.
  • 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_69d6aae0c8d881908a5a360c0be3242e completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d82949e3688190b024a4980666c94f completed April 9, 2026, 10:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e6249ee74881908814cf59c82038a6 completed April 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e62cf224f881908badcdab6aea1aef completed April 20, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e663ffedfc8190a2b51995c62d1e6b completed April 20, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.