Triple

T2468508
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject remains of Patowmack Canal E55310 entity
Predicate operator P179 FINISHED
Object Potowmack Company
The Potowmack Company was an 18th-century enterprise, championed by George Washington, that sought to improve navigation on the Potomac River to link the Atlantic seaboard with the western frontier.
E270116 NE FINISHED

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: Potowmack Company | Statement: [remains of Patowmack Canal, operator, Potowmack Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Potowmack Company
Context triple: [remains of Patowmack Canal, operator, Potowmack Company]
  • A. The Woodbridge Company
    The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
  • B. Valley Falls Company
    Valley Falls Company was a 19th-century New England textile manufacturing firm that became one of the key predecessors to what is now Berkshire Hathaway.
  • C. Dorchester Company
    Dorchester Company was a 17th-century English joint-stock company involved in early colonial ventures, particularly in New England.
  • D. Woodard Corporation
    Woodard Corporation is a group of Anglican-founded independent schools in the United Kingdom, known for providing education with a strong Christian ethos.
  • E. Essex Company
    Essex Company was a 19th-century industrial enterprise that developed the planned mill city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, by harnessing water power for large-scale textile manufacturing.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Potowmack Company
Triple: [remains of Patowmack Canal, operator, Potowmack Company]
Generated description
The Potowmack Company was an 18th-century enterprise, championed by George Washington, that sought to improve navigation on the Potomac River to link the Atlantic seaboard with the western frontier.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Potowmack Company
Target entity description: The Potowmack Company was an 18th-century enterprise, championed by George Washington, that sought to improve navigation on the Potomac River to link the Atlantic seaboard with the western frontier.
  • A. The Woodbridge Company
    The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
  • B. Valley Falls Company
    Valley Falls Company was a 19th-century New England textile manufacturing firm that became one of the key predecessors to what is now Berkshire Hathaway.
  • C. Dorchester Company
    Dorchester Company was a 17th-century English joint-stock company involved in early colonial ventures, particularly in New England.
  • D. Woodard Corporation
    Woodard Corporation is a group of Anglican-founded independent schools in the United Kingdom, known for providing education with a strong Christian ethos.
  • E. Essex Company
    Essex Company was a 19th-century industrial enterprise that developed the planned mill city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, by harnessing water power for large-scale textile manufacturing.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69ab49e3622c8190ad22afa2c4fbb807 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd134684c8190bc62c0af22d75538 completed March 7, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af179f90e881909c09edb961b13a75 completed March 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af195ec8788190ae2f94f7cd86e605 completed March 9, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af1a28591c8190ab4f3dca260766f5 completed March 9, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.