Triple

T17081894
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Blackwell Island Light E414491 entity
Predicate waterwayServed P5565 FINISHED
Object East River shipping channel
The East River shipping channel is a heavily trafficked maritime route in New York City’s East River used by commercial and recreational vessels navigating between Upper New York Bay and Long Island Sound.
E1250409 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: East River shipping channel | Statement: [Blackwell Island Light, waterwayServed, East River shipping channel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: East River shipping channel
Context triple: [Blackwell Island Light, waterwayServed, East River shipping channel]
  • A. Hudson River shipping channel
    The Hudson River shipping channel is the navigable waterway within the Hudson River used by commercial and recreational vessels for transportation and trade.
  • B. New York Harbor main channel
    New York Harbor main channel is the primary deep-water shipping route through New York Harbor, accommodating major commercial and maritime traffic between the Atlantic Ocean and the port facilities of New York and New Jersey.
  • C. Harlem River Ship Canal
    The Harlem River Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in New York City that connects the Hudson and Harlem Rivers, effectively separating Marble Hill from the rest of Manhattan.
  • D. Fort Point Channel
    Fort Point Channel is a narrow waterway in Boston, Massachusetts, separating downtown from the Seaport District and historically serving as an important industrial and maritime corridor.
  • E. Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor
    Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor, is a tidal strait in New York City separating Brooklyn from Governors Island and serving as a key navigational channel within the Upper New York Bay.
  • 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: East River shipping channel
Triple: [Blackwell Island Light, waterwayServed, East River shipping channel]
Generated description
The East River shipping channel is a heavily trafficked maritime route in New York City’s East River used by commercial and recreational vessels navigating between Upper New York Bay and Long Island Sound.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: East River shipping channel
Target entity description: The East River shipping channel is a heavily trafficked maritime route in New York City’s East River used by commercial and recreational vessels navigating between Upper New York Bay and Long Island Sound.
  • A. Hudson River shipping channel
    The Hudson River shipping channel is the navigable waterway within the Hudson River used by commercial and recreational vessels for transportation and trade.
  • B. New York Harbor main channel
    New York Harbor main channel is the primary deep-water shipping route through New York Harbor, accommodating major commercial and maritime traffic between the Atlantic Ocean and the port facilities of New York and New Jersey.
  • C. Harlem River Ship Canal
    The Harlem River Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in New York City that connects the Hudson and Harlem Rivers, effectively separating Marble Hill from the rest of Manhattan.
  • D. Fort Point Channel
    Fort Point Channel is a narrow waterway in Boston, Massachusetts, separating downtown from the Seaport District and historically serving as an important industrial and maritime corridor.
  • E. Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor
    Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor, is a tidal strait in New York City separating Brooklyn from Governors Island and serving as a key navigational channel within the Upper New York Bay.
  • 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_69d886cef44c8190ba56c44b4e863e64 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3dbe408d48190b4f52c2102eae7c2 completed April 18, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0139f7e6408190978c940c6e641d47 completed May 11, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a013ae388548190b09d2c81e1ab0d02 completed May 11, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a013b4df74c81908b3b99e276531e13 completed May 11, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:34 a.m.