Triple

T1179070
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Falkirk E25093 entity
Predicate hasCanal P35 FINISHED
Object Union Canal
The Union Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that links Edinburgh to the Forth & Clyde Canal near Falkirk, once vital for transporting coal and other goods and now used mainly for leisure boating and recreation.
E145458 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: Union Canal | Statement: [Falkirk, hasCanal, Union Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Union Canal
Context triple: [Falkirk, hasCanal, Union Canal]
  • A. Forth and Clyde Canal
    The Forth and Clyde Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that crosses the Central Belt, linking the Firth of Forth on the east coast with the Firth of Clyde on the west.
  • B. Grand Union Canal
    The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
  • C. Montgomery Canal
    The Montgomery Canal is a historic, largely rural waterway in Wales and England known for its rich wildlife habitats and ongoing restoration for leisure boating and conservation.
  • D. Coventry Canal
    The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
  • E. Lancaster Canal
    Lancaster Canal is a historic English waterway in North West England, renowned for its lock-free main line and scenic rural route that supported regional trade during the Industrial Revolution.
  • 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: Union Canal
Triple: [Falkirk, hasCanal, Union Canal]
Generated description
The Union Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that links Edinburgh to the Forth & Clyde Canal near Falkirk, once vital for transporting coal and other goods and now used mainly for leisure boating and recreation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Union Canal
Target entity description: The Union Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that links Edinburgh to the Forth & Clyde Canal near Falkirk, once vital for transporting coal and other goods and now used mainly for leisure boating and recreation.
  • A. Forth and Clyde Canal
    The Forth and Clyde Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that crosses the Central Belt, linking the Firth of Forth on the east coast with the Firth of Clyde on the west.
  • B. Grand Union Canal
    The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
  • C. Montgomery Canal
    The Montgomery Canal is a historic, largely rural waterway in Wales and England known for its rich wildlife habitats and ongoing restoration for leisure boating and conservation.
  • D. Coventry Canal
    The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
  • E. Lancaster Canal
    Lancaster Canal is a historic English waterway in North West England, renowned for its lock-free main line and scenic rural route that supported regional trade during the Industrial Revolution.
  • 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_69a494267b4c819088c97a59182bf56a completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd1226fc819083d526ecd22af8ef completed March 1, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac99775ca081909e4d8c81c40c277b completed March 7, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9f0cc1708190877966c6cfdbd2ba completed March 7, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9f40269081909f45266cfa371888 completed March 7, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.