Triple

T3218418
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bridgewater Canal and Rochdale Canal junction E67451 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Manchester canal network
The Manchester canal network is an interconnected system of historic waterways that supported the city’s industrial growth by linking its mills, warehouses, and docks to regional and national transport routes.
E337610 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: Manchester canal network | Statement: [Bridgewater Canal and Rochdale Canal junction, partOf, Manchester canal network]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manchester canal network
Context triple: [Bridgewater Canal and Rochdale Canal junction, partOf, Manchester canal network]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Grand Union Canal
    The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
  • C. Birmingham Canal Navigations
    Birmingham Canal Navigations is an extensive network of interconnected canals in the English Midlands that historically served as a major industrial transport system around Birmingham and the Black Country.
  • D. Trent and Mersey Canal
    The Trent and Mersey Canal is a historic English waterway running across the Midlands, built in the 18th century to link the River Trent with the River Mersey and support industrial transport, particularly for pottery and other goods.
  • E. Manchester Ship Canal
    The Manchester Ship Canal is a major 19th-century inland waterway in northwest England that enabled ocean-going ships to reach the industrial city of Manchester from the Irish Sea.
  • 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: Manchester canal network
Triple: [Bridgewater Canal and Rochdale Canal junction, partOf, Manchester canal network]
Generated description
The Manchester canal network is an interconnected system of historic waterways that supported the city’s industrial growth by linking its mills, warehouses, and docks to regional and national transport routes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manchester canal network
Target entity description: The Manchester canal network is an interconnected system of historic waterways that supported the city’s industrial growth by linking its mills, warehouses, and docks to regional and national transport routes.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Grand Union Canal
    The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
  • C. Birmingham Canal Navigations
    Birmingham Canal Navigations is an extensive network of interconnected canals in the English Midlands that historically served as a major industrial transport system around Birmingham and the Black Country.
  • D. Trent and Mersey Canal
    The Trent and Mersey Canal is a historic English waterway running across the Midlands, built in the 18th century to link the River Trent with the River Mersey and support industrial transport, particularly for pottery and other goods.
  • E. Manchester Ship Canal
    The Manchester Ship Canal is a major 19th-century inland waterway in northwest England that enabled ocean-going ships to reach the industrial city of Manchester from the Irish Sea.
  • 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_69ad858b8adc8190ad989712c87a476b completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adab0c48b481909d1bd9dc41dfa8c2 completed March 8, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b26245dfb08190a051ec6d2dbc63c6 completed March 12, 2026, 6:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b264c54c508190be85da879935e7f4 completed March 12, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b268d60bd0819097194da2e9065947 completed March 12, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.