Triple

T23085805
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Sheffield Flood of 1864 E575593 entity
Predicate operatorOfFailedDam P133348 FINISHED
Object Sheffield Waterworks Company NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Sheffield Waterworks Company | Statement: [Great Sheffield Flood of 1864, operatorOfFailedDam, Sheffield Waterworks Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheffield Waterworks Company
Context triple: [Great Sheffield Flood of 1864, operatorOfFailedDam, Sheffield Waterworks Company]
  • A. Liverpool Corporation Waterworks
    Liverpool Corporation Waterworks was the municipal authority responsible for developing and managing Liverpool’s water supply infrastructure, including major reservoir projects in Wales during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Sheffield Corporation
    Sheffield Corporation was the former municipal authority responsible for governing and providing public services in the city of Sheffield, England.
  • C. Cromford Canal Company
    The Cromford Canal Company was a British canal company responsible for constructing and managing the Cromford Canal during the Industrial Revolution to support regional trade and industry.
  • 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.
  • E. Manchester Ship Canal Company
    The Manchester Ship Canal Company was the organization responsible for financing, constructing, and operating the Manchester Ship Canal, a major late-19th-century engineering project that turned Manchester into an inland seaport.
  • 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: Sheffield Waterworks Company
Target entity description: The Sheffield Waterworks Company was a 19th-century utility company responsible for supplying water to Sheffield, England, and is historically notorious for its role in the catastrophic Great Sheffield Flood of 1864.
  • A. Liverpool Corporation Waterworks
    Liverpool Corporation Waterworks was the municipal authority responsible for developing and managing Liverpool’s water supply infrastructure, including major reservoir projects in Wales during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Sheffield Corporation
    Sheffield Corporation was the former municipal authority responsible for governing and providing public services in the city of Sheffield, England.
  • C. Cromford Canal Company
    The Cromford Canal Company was a British canal company responsible for constructing and managing the Cromford Canal during the Industrial Revolution to support regional trade and industry.
  • 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.
  • E. Manchester Ship Canal Company
    The Manchester Ship Canal Company was the organization responsible for financing, constructing, and operating the Manchester Ship Canal, a major late-19th-century engineering project that turned Manchester into an inland seaport.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: operatorOfFailedDam
Context triple: [Great Sheffield Flood of 1864, operatorOfFailedDam, Sheffield Waterworks Company]
  • A. damOperator chosen
    Indicates that one entity is responsible for operating, managing, or controlling the functioning of a dam associated with another entity.
  • B. damState
    Indicates the operational or physical condition a dam is currently in, such as its status, integrity, or level of functionality.
  • C. hasDam
    Indicates that a watercourse, reservoir, or similar feature is impounded or controlled by a specific dam.
  • D. typeOfDam
    Indicates the specific kind or classification of a dam associated with an entity.
  • E. hasDamFunction
    Indicates that something serves the role or performs the function of a dam, such as impounding or regulating the flow of water.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (3 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_69e245bf3e3c819086d3448720efc01b completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18da573588190a8e0c859667e64a6 completed April 29, 2026, 4:48 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69ef89e5ce748190b2c3ac3843484127 completed April 27, 2026, 4:08 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:57 p.m.