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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.