Triple
T18297878
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Scottish Canals |
E438280
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British Waterways Board (Scotland operations) |
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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: British Waterways Board (Scotland operations) | Statement: [Scottish Canals, predecessor, British Waterways Board (Scotland operations)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Waterways Board (Scotland operations) Context triple: [Scottish Canals, predecessor, British Waterways Board (Scotland operations)]
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A.
British Waterways
chosen
British Waterways was the public corporation responsible for managing and maintaining most of the inland waterways and canals in Great Britain until its functions were transferred to successor bodies in the 2010s.
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B.
Canal & River Trust
Canal & River Trust is a charitable organization responsible for caring for and maintaining much of England and Wales’s historic canal and river network.
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C.
Northumbrian Water
Northumbrian Water is a major water supply and wastewater services company serving the North East of England.
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D.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Company
The Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Company was the 19th-century Scottish company responsible for promoting, financing, and operating the Union Canal linking Edinburgh with the Forth and Clyde Canal near Glasgow.
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E.
Aire and Calder Navigation
The Aire and Calder Navigation is a major canalised river and waterway in West Yorkshire, England, historically important for transporting coal and goods between the industrial towns of the Pennines and the Humber estuary.
- 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_69d8b915e3e881909125d760c15d0c29 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5017cc540819096c103a2c72315e6 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 4:23 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:35 a.m.