Triple
T1619803
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | River Trent |
E35003
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasCanalConnection |
P845
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Foss Dyke
Foss Dyke is one of Britain’s oldest artificial canals, linking the River Trent to the city of Lincoln and serving as an important historic navigation route.
|
E226310
|
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: Foss Dyke | Statement: [River Trent, hasCanalConnection, Foss Dyke]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Foss Dyke Context triple: [River Trent, hasCanalConnection, Foss Dyke]
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A.
Basingstoke Canal
The Basingstoke Canal is a restored historic waterway in southern England, popular for boating, walking, and wildlife along its rural and suburban towpaths.
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B.
Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal is a historic English waterway in the East Midlands that once linked the town of Grantham to the national canal network, primarily serving 18th- and 19th-century trade and now valued for leisure and wildlife.
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C.
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.
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D.
Nottingham Canal
Nottingham Canal is a historic artificial waterway in Nottingham, England, built to facilitate industrial transport and now largely used for leisure and heritage purposes.
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E.
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.
- 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: Foss Dyke Triple: [River Trent, hasCanalConnection, Foss Dyke]
Generated description
Foss Dyke is one of Britain’s oldest artificial canals, linking the River Trent to the city of Lincoln and serving as an important historic navigation route.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Foss Dyke Target entity description: Foss Dyke is one of Britain’s oldest artificial canals, linking the River Trent to the city of Lincoln and serving as an important historic navigation route.
-
A.
Basingstoke Canal
The Basingstoke Canal is a restored historic waterway in southern England, popular for boating, walking, and wildlife along its rural and suburban towpaths.
-
B.
Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal is a historic English waterway in the East Midlands that once linked the town of Grantham to the national canal network, primarily serving 18th- and 19th-century trade and now valued for leisure and wildlife.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
Nottingham Canal
Nottingham Canal is a historic artificial waterway in Nottingham, England, built to facilitate industrial transport and now largely used for leisure and heritage purposes.
-
E.
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.
- 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_69a886023194819080a3fccd6e325d0e |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a909aef1b881909ef90dbc833a82a3 |
completed | March 5, 2026, 4:42 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae0aaae76c81909707184b3a3d87d5 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 11:47 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ae0b49abfc81908876ea54c7b7dcc2 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 11:50 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ae0d1bb5c881908c27bdd359e78773 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 11:58 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.