Triple
T20025243
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lockport, Illinois |
E494963
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entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Erie Canal locks at Lockport, New York |
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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: Erie Canal locks at Lockport, New York | Statement: [Lockport, Illinois, namedAfter, Erie Canal locks at Lockport, New York]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erie Canal locks at Lockport, New York Context triple: [Lockport, Illinois, namedAfter, Erie Canal locks at Lockport, New York]
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A.
Erie Canal locks in Lockport
The Erie Canal locks in Lockport are a historic flight of canal locks that dramatically lift boats up the Niagara Escarpment and serve as a landmark engineering feature of the Erie Canal system in western New York.
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B.
Erie Canal Lock 17
Erie Canal Lock 17 is a historic and still-operational lock on the Erie Canal notable for its high lift and engineering significance near Little Falls, New York.
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C.
Erie Canal Flight of Five Locks
chosen
The Erie Canal Flight of Five Locks is a historic series of canal locks in Lockport, New York, that dramatically raised and lowered boats along the Erie Canal and stands today as a prominent feat of 19th-century engineering.
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D.
Ohio and Erie Canal locks
The Ohio and Erie Canal locks are historic canal structures built in the 19th century to raise and lower boats along the Ohio and Erie Canal, a major waterway that once linked Lake Erie with the Ohio River and spurred regional development.
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E.
Erie Canal Lock E-6
Erie Canal Lock E-6 is a navigation lock on the Erie Canal located in Waterford, New York, that helps vessels transition between different water levels along the canal system.
- 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_69da626bfd288190aa5d65098b6433ae |
completed | April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6628d5b8c8190a35f95ac4a016550 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 5:29 p.m. |
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:35 p.m.