Triple

T12469984

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Ellesmere Canal (historic)	`E298026`	entity
Predicate	owner	`P347`	FINISHED
Object	Ellesmere Canal Company The Ellesmere Canal Company was a British canal company responsible for developing and operating sections of the historic Ellesmere Canal network during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.	`E983392`	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: Ellesmere Canal Company | Statement: [Ellesmere Canal (historic), owner, Ellesmere Canal Company]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Ellesmere Canal Company
Context triple: [Ellesmere Canal (historic), owner, Ellesmere Canal Company]

A. 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.
B. 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.
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. 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.
E. Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Company
The Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Company was the 19th-century Scottish company responsible for promoting, financing, and operating the Union Canal linking Edinburgh with the Forth and Clyde Canal near Glasgow.
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: Ellesmere Canal Company
Triple: [Ellesmere Canal (historic), owner, Ellesmere Canal Company]

Generated description

The Ellesmere Canal Company was a British canal company responsible for developing and operating sections of the historic Ellesmere Canal network during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Ellesmere Canal Company
Target entity description: The Ellesmere Canal Company was a British canal company responsible for developing and operating sections of the historic Ellesmere Canal network during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

A. 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.
B. 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.
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. 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.
E. Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Company
The Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Company was the 19th-century Scottish company responsible for promoting, financing, and operating the Union Canal linking Edinburgh with the Forth and Clyde Canal near Glasgow.
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_69d6ada270808190b1a2b2e7b02bb426`	completed	April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69d94dba7f6c8190b272f649e0777362`	completed	April 10, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69f63f2175c48190bbd28ad8c07434f0`	completed	May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69f6401199408190ad2657802afd93c9`	completed	May 2, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69f6416ba1bc8190a772bffe4d83ec15`	completed	May 2, 2026, 6:24 p.m.

Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.