Triple
T17761828
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Smethwick |
E443395
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasCanal |
P35
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Birmingham Canal Navigations |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: Birmingham Canal Navigations | Statement: [Smethwick, hasCanal, Birmingham Canal Navigations]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Birmingham Canal Navigations Context triple: [Smethwick, hasCanal, Birmingham Canal Navigations]
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A.
Birmingham Canal Navigations
chosen
Birmingham Canal Navigations is an extensive network of interconnected canals in the English Midlands that historically served as a major industrial transport system around Birmingham and the Black Country.
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B.
Birmingham Canal
The Birmingham Canal is a historic waterway in England that formed the core of Birmingham’s industrial canal network, linking the city to major trade routes during the Industrial Revolution.
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C.
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal that forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, linking Birmingham with Fazeley and connecting to wider Midlands waterways.
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D.
Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal
The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal is a historic English waterway that forms a key part of the route between the Midlands and the northwest, now incorporated into the Shropshire Union Canal network.
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E.
Wyrley and Essington Canal
The Wyrley and Essington Canal is an historic inland waterway in the West Midlands of England, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and serving former industrial towns such as Walsall.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9edf16c8190a59ebd245d378f4f |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e485f7a8e08190a4a6b8368b70c381 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:36 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:11 a.m.