Triple
T11471599
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Birmingham Canal Navigations |
E271920
|
entity |
| Predicate | connectsTo |
P845
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Worcester and Birmingham Canal
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal is an English inland waterway linking the city of Worcester to Birmingham, historically important for industrial transport and now popular for leisure boating.
|
E940866
|
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: Worcester and Birmingham Canal | Statement: [Birmingham Canal Navigations, connectsTo, Worcester and Birmingham Canal]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Worcester and Birmingham Canal Context triple: [Birmingham Canal Navigations, connectsTo, Worcester and Birmingham Canal]
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A.
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.
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B.
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is an 18th-century English inland waterway that forms a key link between the River Severn and the Midlands canal network.
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C.
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.
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D.
Birmingham Canal
The Birmingham Canal is a historic waterway in England that formed the core of Birmingham’s industrial canal network, linking the city to major trade routes during the Industrial Revolution.
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E.
Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal
The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal is a historic English waterway that forms a key part of the route between the Midlands and the northwest, now incorporated into the Shropshire 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: Worcester and Birmingham Canal Triple: [Birmingham Canal Navigations, connectsTo, Worcester and Birmingham Canal]
Generated description
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal is an English inland waterway linking the city of Worcester to Birmingham, historically important for industrial transport and now popular for leisure boating.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Worcester and Birmingham Canal Target entity description: The Worcester and Birmingham Canal is an English inland waterway linking the city of Worcester to Birmingham, historically important for industrial transport and now popular for leisure boating.
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A.
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.
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B.
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is an 18th-century English inland waterway that forms a key link between the River Severn and the Midlands canal network.
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C.
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.
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D.
Birmingham Canal
The Birmingham Canal is a historic waterway in England that formed the core of Birmingham’s industrial canal network, linking the city to major trade routes during the Industrial Revolution.
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E.
Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal
The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal is a historic English waterway that forms a key part of the route between the Midlands and the northwest, now incorporated into the Shropshire 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_69ef12c1cd048190b58410542005acbc |
completed | April 27, 2026, 7:39 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ef511f8f688190b2806d4e8ab16511 |
completed | April 27, 2026, 12:05 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ef537efcc48190afffaa50f28940d8 |
completed | April 27, 2026, 12:15 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.