Triple
T19557584
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Crosley |
E489355
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableProject |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Macclesfield Canal |
—
|
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: Macclesfield Canal | Statement: [William Crosley, notableProject, Macclesfield Canal]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Macclesfield Canal Context triple: [William Crosley, notableProject, Macclesfield Canal]
-
A.
Macclesfield Canal
chosen
The Macclesfield Canal is a historic narrow canal in northwest England, known for its scenic route through Cheshire and its role in the region’s 19th-century industrial transport network.
-
B.
Rochdale Canal
The Rochdale Canal is a historic English waterway linking Manchester with Sowerby Bridge, notable for its series of locks and role in the region’s industrial development.
-
C.
Walsall Canal
The Walsall Canal is a historic narrow canal in the West Midlands, England, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and serving the industrial town of Walsall.
-
D.
Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal
The Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal is a historic, largely disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built during the Industrial Revolution to transport coal and other goods between Manchester and the surrounding towns of Bolton and Bury.
-
E.
Huddersfield Broad Canal
Huddersfield Broad Canal is a short, wide-beam canal in West Yorkshire, England, linking Huddersfield to the Calder and Hebble Navigation as part of the region’s historic industrial waterway network.
- 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_69d8e8dc5d8c8190a6d7bd8864f43ca0 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e63d34d1bc81908e5e10f069655866 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 2:50 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:42 p.m.