Triple

T2975987
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spike Island E80396 entity
Predicate adjacentTo P224 FINISHED
Object St Helens Canal
St Helens Canal is a historic industrial waterway in northwest England that once served as an important transport route for coal and other goods during the Industrial Revolution.
E316094 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: St Helens Canal | Statement: [Spike Island, adjacentTo, St Helens Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St Helens Canal
Context triple: [Spike Island, adjacentTo, St Helens Canal]
  • A. Ashton Canal
    The Ashton Canal is a historic narrow canal in Greater Manchester, England, that links central Manchester to the Peak Forest Canal and forms part of the region’s Pennine waterway network.
  • 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Lancaster Canal
    Lancaster Canal is a historic English waterway in North West England, renowned for its lock-free main line and scenic rural route that supported regional trade during the Industrial Revolution.
  • E. Erewash Canal
    The Erewash Canal is an 18th-century English waterway in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, historically built to serve local coalfields and now used mainly for leisure boating and recreation.
  • 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: St Helens Canal
Triple: [Spike Island, adjacentTo, St Helens Canal]
Generated description
St Helens Canal is a historic industrial waterway in northwest England that once served as an important transport route for coal and other goods during the Industrial Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St Helens Canal
Target entity description: St Helens Canal is a historic industrial waterway in northwest England that once served as an important transport route for coal and other goods during the Industrial Revolution.
  • A. Ashton Canal
    The Ashton Canal is a historic narrow canal in Greater Manchester, England, that links central Manchester to the Peak Forest Canal and forms part of the region’s Pennine waterway network.
  • 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Lancaster Canal
    Lancaster Canal is a historic English waterway in North West England, renowned for its lock-free main line and scenic rural route that supported regional trade during the Industrial Revolution.
  • E. Erewash Canal
    The Erewash Canal is an 18th-century English waterway in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, historically built to serve local coalfields and now used mainly for leisure boating and recreation.
  • 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_69ad8b15f6ac8190be5fd16a33edcb4f completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad998ad5308190a012ec4940eb46cb completed March 8, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b108e99ea881908cccc6656e8653c3 completed March 11, 2026, 6:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b109fc0f308190b1a0105a67491c54 completed March 11, 2026, 6:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b10a78414481908689ac3ba5265388 completed March 11, 2026, 6:23 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:58 p.m.