Triple

T5180255
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cromford Canal E116901 entity
Predicate connectedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Derby Canal
The Derby Canal was a historic English waterway in Derbyshire that played a key role in the region’s 18th- and 19th-century industrial transport network before its eventual closure and partial infilling.
E511774 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: Derby Canal | Statement: [Cromford Canal, connectedTo, Derby Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Derby Canal
Context triple: [Cromford Canal, connectedTo, Derby Canal]
  • A. Grantham Canal
    The Grantham Canal is a historic English waterway in the East Midlands that once linked the town of Grantham to the national canal network, primarily serving 18th- and 19th-century trade and now valued for leisure and wildlife.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Coventry Canal
    The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
  • 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: Derby Canal
Triple: [Cromford Canal, connectedTo, Derby Canal]
Generated description
The Derby Canal was a historic English waterway in Derbyshire that played a key role in the region’s 18th- and 19th-century industrial transport network before its eventual closure and partial infilling.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Derby Canal
Target entity description: The Derby Canal was a historic English waterway in Derbyshire that played a key role in the region’s 18th- and 19th-century industrial transport network before its eventual closure and partial infilling.
  • A. Grantham Canal
    The Grantham Canal is a historic English waterway in the East Midlands that once linked the town of Grantham to the national canal network, primarily serving 18th- and 19th-century trade and now valued for leisure and wildlife.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Coventry Canal
    The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
  • 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_69bd446140f08190becb93c61158f27f completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd799a322c8190b8a590cfe70761f5 completed March 20, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf186b92a48190a167a5712667809b completed March 21, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf195d26e88190b86c16cd6adc7c5c completed March 21, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf1a0bbed08190bf21bd99343b90a4 completed March 21, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:45 p.m.