Triple
T4743388
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ashton Canal |
E105299
|
entity |
| Predicate | historicalOwner |
P22003
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Ashton Canal Company
The Ashton Canal Company was the original private company responsible for constructing, operating, and managing the Ashton Canal during the industrial era in England.
|
E467218
|
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: Ashton Canal Company | Statement: [Ashton Canal, historicalOwner, Ashton Canal Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ashton Canal Company Context triple: [Ashton Canal, historicalOwner, Ashton Canal Company]
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A.
Grand Junction Canal
The Grand Junction Canal was a major English waterway linking London with the Midlands, later incorporated into the Grand Union Canal network.
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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.
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C.
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.
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D.
Cromford Canal
Cromford Canal is a historic late-18th-century English waterway in Derbyshire, built during the Industrial Revolution to transport coal and limestone and now valued for its industrial heritage and wildlife.
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E.
Ashton Canal aqueduct
The Ashton Canal aqueduct is a historic waterway structure in Greater Manchester, England, that carries the Ashton Canal over the River Tame as part of the region’s industrial-era canal network.
- 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: Ashton Canal Company Triple: [Ashton Canal, historicalOwner, Ashton Canal Company]
Generated description
The Ashton Canal Company was the original private company responsible for constructing, operating, and managing the Ashton Canal during the industrial era in England.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ashton Canal Company Target entity description: The Ashton Canal Company was the original private company responsible for constructing, operating, and managing the Ashton Canal during the industrial era in England.
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A.
Grand Junction Canal
The Grand Junction Canal was a major English waterway linking London with the Midlands, later incorporated into the Grand Union Canal 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.
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.
-
D.
Cromford Canal
Cromford Canal is a historic late-18th-century English waterway in Derbyshire, built during the Industrial Revolution to transport coal and limestone and now valued for its industrial heritage and wildlife.
-
E.
Ashton Canal aqueduct
The Ashton Canal aqueduct is a historic waterway structure in Greater Manchester, England, that carries the Ashton Canal over the River Tame as part of the region’s industrial-era canal network.
- 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_69bd43ef87a48190a5bc3600711aa032 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd64a85e9c81908e9c7bbbb998953e |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:15 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be3a309a408190836c51d0fe85c5d8 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 6:26 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69be3d30efb4819088121ce087344da3 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 6:39 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69be3d99a288819088e42e04de5c17a4 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 6:41 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:19 p.m.