Triple

T16814484
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Moshassuck River E408705 entity
Predicate crossesInfrastructure P27425 FINISHED
Object Blackstone Canal (historic alignment vicinity) E522834 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Blackstone Canal (historic alignment vicinity) | Statement: [Moshassuck River, crossesInfrastructure, Blackstone Canal (historic alignment vicinity)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blackstone Canal (historic alignment vicinity)
Context triple: [Moshassuck River, crossesInfrastructure, Blackstone Canal (historic alignment vicinity)]
  • A. Blackstone Canal chosen
    The Blackstone Canal is a historic 19th-century waterway in the northeastern United States that played a key role in early industrial transportation and the development of mill towns in the Blackstone Valley.
  • B. Pennsylvania Main Line Canal (historical)
    The Pennsylvania Main Line Canal was a 19th-century transportation waterway that formed part of Pennsylvania’s Main Line of Public Works, linking the state’s interior communities to major trade routes before the rise of railroads.
  • C. The Stone Canal
    The Stone Canal is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that explores artificial intelligence, political ideology, and posthuman society across intertwined timelines.
  • D. Burlington Canal
    The Burlington Canal is a navigational waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides ship access between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour.
  • E. Bentley Canal (remnant and line)
    Bentley Canal (remnant and line) is a disused branch of the historic Birmingham Canal Navigations network in the West Midlands, now surviving only in fragments and as a former route line.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d88394566c8190b3dcbdc72935f7fa completed April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b2e0e05081908bd5eaa64abe133d completed April 18, 2026, 4:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00b2946ddc81908b1e7c662dc943ff completed May 10, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:23 a.m.