Triple

T4224371
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lawrence, Massachusetts E94417 entity
Predicate hasRiverFeature P1094 FINISHED
Object Lawrence Canal system
The Lawrence Canal system is a historic network of industrial power canals in Lawrence, Massachusetts, built in the 19th century to harness the Merrimack River for textile mills and manufacturing.
E422904 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: Lawrence Canal system | Statement: [Lawrence, Massachusetts, hasRiverFeature, Lawrence Canal system]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lawrence Canal system
Context triple: [Lawrence, Massachusetts, hasRiverFeature, Lawrence Canal system]
  • A. Royal Military Canal
    The Royal Military Canal is a historic early-19th-century defensive waterway in Kent, England, originally built to protect against a potential Napoleonic invasion and now valued as a scenic recreational and wildlife corridor.
  • B. Murray Canal
    The Murray Canal is a man-made waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides a navigable shortcut between the Bay of Quinte and Lake Ontario as part of the Trent–Severn Waterway.
  • C. Caledonian Canal
    The Caledonian Canal is a historic waterway in the Scottish Highlands that links the east and west coasts by connecting a series of natural lochs through the Great Glen.
  • D. Albert Canal
    The Albert Canal is a major Belgian waterway linking the Meuse River to the port of Antwerp, serving as an important route for inland shipping and freight transport.
  • 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: Lawrence Canal system
Triple: [Lawrence, Massachusetts, hasRiverFeature, Lawrence Canal system]
Generated description
The Lawrence Canal system is a historic network of industrial power canals in Lawrence, Massachusetts, built in the 19th century to harness the Merrimack River for textile mills and manufacturing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lawrence Canal system
Target entity description: The Lawrence Canal system is a historic network of industrial power canals in Lawrence, Massachusetts, built in the 19th century to harness the Merrimack River for textile mills and manufacturing.
  • A. Royal Military Canal
    The Royal Military Canal is a historic early-19th-century defensive waterway in Kent, England, originally built to protect against a potential Napoleonic invasion and now valued as a scenic recreational and wildlife corridor.
  • B. Murray Canal
    The Murray Canal is a man-made waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides a navigable shortcut between the Bay of Quinte and Lake Ontario as part of the Trent–Severn Waterway.
  • C. Caledonian Canal
    The Caledonian Canal is a historic waterway in the Scottish Highlands that links the east and west coasts by connecting a series of natural lochs through the Great Glen.
  • D. Albert Canal
    The Albert Canal is a major Belgian waterway linking the Meuse River to the port of Antwerp, serving as an important route for inland shipping and freight transport.
  • 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_69b3453700a08190ae88792e3dc63207 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34e4bf6088190926b982039a12079 completed March 12, 2026, 11:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5964532e08190bb1dc56f734e6ebb completed March 14, 2026, 5:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b59a0e97d481908dfbab773468f3d5 completed March 14, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b59e23353c819080b56841d7f32cae completed March 14, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:04 p.m.