Triple

T1479868
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Trent–Severn Waterway E30926 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Severn Canal
The Severn Canal is a historic Canadian waterway segment that forms part of the Trent–Severn Waterway, linking inland lakes and rivers for navigation across central Ontario.
E178071 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: Severn Canal | Statement: [Trent–Severn Waterway, hasPart, Severn Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Severn Canal
Context triple: [Trent–Severn Waterway, hasPart, Severn Canal]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Kennet and Avon Canal
    The Kennet and Avon Canal is a historic English waterway linking the River Thames at Reading with the River Avon at Bath, renowned for its 19th-century engineering and scenic cruising route.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Bridgewater Canal
    The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Severn Canal
Triple: [Trent–Severn Waterway, hasPart, Severn Canal]
Generated description
The Severn Canal is a historic Canadian waterway segment that forms part of the Trent–Severn Waterway, linking inland lakes and rivers for navigation across central Ontario.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Severn Canal
Target entity description: The Severn Canal is a historic Canadian waterway segment that forms part of the Trent–Severn Waterway, linking inland lakes and rivers for navigation across central Ontario.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Kennet and Avon Canal
    The Kennet and Avon Canal is a historic English waterway linking the River Thames at Reading with the River Avon at Bath, renowned for its 19th-century engineering and scenic cruising route.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Bridgewater Canal
    The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a498fe55a88190ab7f9e40ace88e49 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c674cc9c819088fc9146c7a7a914 completed March 1, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad36ffd8808190894f2139ae12204e completed March 8, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad38dd6e98819082ceba12e9280963 completed March 8, 2026, 8:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad3a71919c8190822efc93501f15ef completed March 8, 2026, 8:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:11 p.m.