Triple

T22356663
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ellesmere Canal E552669 entity
Predicate operatorSuccessor P5677 FINISHED
Object Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company — 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: Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company | Statement: [Ellesmere Canal, operatorSuccessor, Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company
Context triple: [Ellesmere Canal, operatorSuccessor, Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company]
  • A. Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company chosen
    The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company was a 19th-century British transport company that operated and integrated canal and railway networks across parts of England and Wales.
  • B. Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway
    The Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway was a historic British railway company that operated the line connecting Crewe and Shrewsbury in England during the 19th century.
  • C. North Staffordshire Railway
    The North Staffordshire Railway was a historic British railway company serving the Staffordshire region, particularly around Stoke-on-Trent and the Potteries, before being absorbed into larger railway groupings.
  • D. South Staffordshire Railway
    South Staffordshire Railway was a 19th-century British railway company that developed and operated lines in the South Staffordshire region of England before being absorbed into larger railway networks.
  • E. Bristol and Gloucester Railway
    The Bristol and Gloucester Railway was a 19th-century English railway line that connected Bristol with Gloucester and later became part of the expanding Midland Railway network.
  • 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_69e11e4a0ad08190a385b4d343cf6524 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f157d08b148190a9a4e445e8579219 completed April 29, 2026, 12:58 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:44 p.m.