Triple
T11918873
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ship Canal House |
E283600
|
entity |
| Predicate | significantBuildingFor |
P24491
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Manchester Ship Canal Company
The Manchester Ship Canal Company was the organization responsible for financing, constructing, and operating the Manchester Ship Canal, a major late-19th-century engineering project that turned Manchester into an inland seaport.
|
E954471
|
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: Manchester Ship Canal Company | Statement: [Ship Canal House, significantBuildingFor, Manchester Ship Canal Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manchester Ship Canal Company Context triple: [Ship Canal House, significantBuildingFor, Manchester Ship Canal Company]
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A.
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company was the historic British canal company responsible for constructing and operating the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, a major industrial waterway linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool across northern England.
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B.
Ashton Canal Company
The Ashton Canal Company was the original private company responsible for constructing, operating, and managing the Ashton Canal during the industrial era in England.
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C.
Nottingham Canal Company
The Nottingham Canal Company was the historical enterprise responsible for financing, constructing, and operating the Nottingham Canal in England during the canal-building era.
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D.
Bute Dock Company
The Bute Dock Company was a 19th-century dock and railway enterprise in Cardiff, Wales, central to the development and export of coal from the region.
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E.
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks was the municipal authority responsible for developing and managing Liverpool’s water supply infrastructure, including major reservoir projects in Wales during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Manchester Ship Canal Company Triple: [Ship Canal House, significantBuildingFor, Manchester Ship Canal Company]
Generated description
The Manchester Ship Canal Company was the organization responsible for financing, constructing, and operating the Manchester Ship Canal, a major late-19th-century engineering project that turned Manchester into an inland seaport.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manchester Ship Canal Company Target entity description: The Manchester Ship Canal Company was the organization responsible for financing, constructing, and operating the Manchester Ship Canal, a major late-19th-century engineering project that turned Manchester into an inland seaport.
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A.
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company was the historic British canal company responsible for constructing and operating the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, a major industrial waterway linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool across northern England.
-
B.
Ashton Canal Company
The Ashton Canal Company was the original private company responsible for constructing, operating, and managing the Ashton Canal during the industrial era in England.
-
C.
Nottingham Canal Company
The Nottingham Canal Company was the historical enterprise responsible for financing, constructing, and operating the Nottingham Canal in England during the canal-building era.
-
D.
Bute Dock Company
The Bute Dock Company was a 19th-century dock and railway enterprise in Cardiff, Wales, central to the development and export of coal from the region.
-
E.
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks was the municipal authority responsible for developing and managing Liverpool’s water supply infrastructure, including major reservoir projects in Wales during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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_69d6ab2c07e88190ba13b0d21fd6cf33 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d8e8dff77481908cacf6ad03df34ac |
completed | April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f440247cf4819084567f6e1005ef04 |
completed | May 1, 2026, 5:54 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f448fa8eec81909fe6ac0902f46998 |
completed | May 1, 2026, 6:32 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f44aef15148190ba8090681b921ffa |
completed | May 1, 2026, 6:40 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:44 p.m.