Triple
T22211111
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Middlewich Branch |
E548946
|
entity |
| Predicate | links |
P2535
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Trent and Mersey Canal main line |
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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: Trent and Mersey Canal main line | Statement: [Middlewich Branch, links, Trent and Mersey Canal main line]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trent and Mersey Canal main line Context triple: [Middlewich Branch, links, Trent and Mersey Canal main line]
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A.
Trent and Mersey Canal
chosen
The Trent and Mersey Canal is a historic English waterway running across the Midlands, built in the 18th century to link the River Trent with the River Mersey and support industrial transport, particularly for pottery and other goods.
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B.
Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
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C.
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.
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D.
Cromford Canal
Cromford Canal is a historic late-18th-century English waterway in Derbyshire, built during the Industrial Revolution to transport coal and limestone and now valued for its industrial heritage and wildlife.
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E.
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.
- 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.