Triple

T21156251
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Port of Buffalo E521318 entity
Predicate locatedOnTransportCorridor P2409 FINISHED
Object Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway shipping route — 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: Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway shipping route | Statement: [Port of Buffalo, locatedOnTransportCorridor, Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway shipping route]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway shipping route
Context triple: [Port of Buffalo, locatedOnTransportCorridor, Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway shipping route]
  • A. Great Lakes waterway
    The Great Lakes waterway is a system of natural and artificial channels that enables commercial and recreational navigation between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
  • B. Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system chosen
    The Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system is a vast interconnected chain of freshwater lakes and the St. Lawrence River that forms one of the world’s largest inland waterways, linking the interior of North America to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • C. Seaway Canal
    The Seaway Canal is a man-made waterway on Australia's Gold Coast that provides a navigable passage between the Broadwater and the open ocean for recreational and commercial vessels.
  • D. St. Marys River–Lake Superior shipping route
    The St. Marys River–Lake Superior shipping route is a major Great Lakes navigation corridor connecting Lake Superior to the lower lakes, heavily used by commercial freighters and regulated for safe passage through locks and narrow channels.
  • E. East Coast Inland Waterway
    The East Coast Inland Waterway is a protected navigable water route along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States, used primarily by recreational and commercial vessels as an alternative to open-ocean travel.
  • 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_69e0b50d1ea481909c07e63c3ead9316 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e7252b40ac81908ab7e30c662a6c94 completed April 21, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:58 p.m.