Triple

T2975988
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spike Island E80396 entity
Predicate adjacentTo P224 FINISHED
Object Sankey Canal
Sankey Canal is one of England’s earliest industrial canals, historically built to transport coal and other goods in the northwest of the country.
E316095 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: Sankey Canal | Statement: [Spike Island, adjacentTo, Sankey Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sankey Canal
Context triple: [Spike Island, adjacentTo, Sankey Canal]
  • A. Mittelland Canal
    The Mittelland Canal is Germany’s longest artificial waterway, running east–west across the country to link major rivers and form a key inland shipping route.
  • B. Pannerdens Kanaal
    Pannerdens Kanaal is a man-made canal in the Netherlands that diverts water from the Rhine to regulate flow between the Waal and IJssel rivers and support navigation and flood control.
  • C. North Sea Canal
    The North Sea Canal is a major Dutch waterway that links Amsterdam to the North Sea, enabling seagoing vessels to access the city’s port.
  • D. Rhine–Herne Canal
    The Rhine–Herne Canal is a major German shipping canal in the Ruhr area that links the Rhine River with the inland waterways of northern and eastern Germany, serving as an important industrial transport route.
  • E. Union Canal
    The Union Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that links Edinburgh to the Forth & Clyde Canal near Falkirk, once vital for transporting coal and other goods 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: Sankey Canal
Triple: [Spike Island, adjacentTo, Sankey Canal]
Generated description
Sankey Canal is one of England’s earliest industrial canals, historically built to transport coal and other goods in the northwest of the country.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sankey Canal
Target entity description: Sankey Canal is one of England’s earliest industrial canals, historically built to transport coal and other goods in the northwest of the country.
  • A. Mittelland Canal
    The Mittelland Canal is Germany’s longest artificial waterway, running east–west across the country to link major rivers and form a key inland shipping route.
  • B. Pannerdens Kanaal
    Pannerdens Kanaal is a man-made canal in the Netherlands that diverts water from the Rhine to regulate flow between the Waal and IJssel rivers and support navigation and flood control.
  • C. North Sea Canal
    The North Sea Canal is a major Dutch waterway that links Amsterdam to the North Sea, enabling seagoing vessels to access the city’s port.
  • D. Rhine–Herne Canal
    The Rhine–Herne Canal is a major German shipping canal in the Ruhr area that links the Rhine River with the inland waterways of northern and eastern Germany, serving as an important industrial transport route.
  • E. Union Canal
    The Union Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that links Edinburgh to the Forth & Clyde Canal near Falkirk, once vital for transporting coal and other goods 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.