Triple
T22211095
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Middlewich Branch |
E548946
|
entity |
| Predicate | builtBy |
P972
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company |
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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: Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company | Statement: [Middlewich Branch, builtBy, Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company Context triple: [Middlewich Branch, builtBy, Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company]
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A.
Ellesmere Canal Company
chosen
The Ellesmere Canal Company was a British canal company responsible for developing and operating sections of the historic Ellesmere Canal network during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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B.
Lancaster Canal Company
The Lancaster Canal Company was a British canal company responsible for developing and operating the Lancaster Canal in northwest England during the canal-building era of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Ashton Canal Company
The Ashton Canal Company was the original private company responsible for constructing, operating, and managing the Ashton Canal during the industrial era in England.
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D.
Trent and Mersey Canal Company
The Trent and Mersey Canal Company was the historic British company responsible for building and operating the Trent and Mersey Canal, a key industrial waterway linking the River Trent to the River Mersey during the Industrial Revolution.
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E.
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company was the historic British canal company responsible for constructing and operating the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, a major industrial waterway linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool across northern England.
- 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_69e11e3f7e04819089806d81d5ac431e |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f12b2bcf748190a9721f0c9ae17e70 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:48 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:36 p.m.