Triple

T22096929
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company E546059 entity
Predicate operatedNetwork P5033 FINISHED
Object Shrewsbury Canal NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Shrewsbury Canal | Statement: [Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, operatedNetwork, Shrewsbury Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shrewsbury Canal
Context triple: [Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, operatedNetwork, Shrewsbury Canal]
  • A. Shropshire Union Canal
    The Shropshire Union Canal is a major 19th-century English waterway linking the Midlands to northwest England, known for its long rural stretches, engineering features, and role in the country’s historic canal network.
  • B. Coventry Canal
    The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
  • C. Loughborough Canal
    Loughborough Canal is a waterway serving the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire, England, forming part of the region’s historic canal network for transport and leisure boating.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shrewsbury Canal
Target entity description: The Shrewsbury Canal was a historic English waterway in Shropshire that formed part of the region’s industrial-era canal network, linking local towns and industries before its eventual decline with the rise of rail transport.
  • A. Shropshire Union Canal
    The Shropshire Union Canal is a major 19th-century English waterway linking the Midlands to northwest England, known for its long rural stretches, engineering features, and role in the country’s historic canal network.
  • B. Coventry Canal
    The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
  • C. Loughborough Canal
    Loughborough Canal is a waterway serving the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire, England, forming part of the region’s historic canal network for transport and leisure boating.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69e11e36d03c8190a83a1ba802b7231b completed April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f128ea00d48190b020aba80dcdbec9 completed April 28, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:30 p.m.