Triple
T5382396
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Forth and Clyde Canal |
E113117
|
entity |
| Predicate | engineer |
P184
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Smeaton |
E324899
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: John Smeaton | Statement: [Forth and Clyde Canal, engineer, John Smeaton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smeaton Context triple: [Forth and Clyde Canal, engineer, John Smeaton]
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A.
John Smeaton
chosen
John Smeaton was an 18th-century English civil engineer, often called the "father of civil engineering," renowned for pioneering work on lighthouses, canals, and harbors.
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B.
Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford was a pioneering 18th–19th century Scottish civil engineer renowned for his innovative bridges, canals, and roads across Britain.
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C.
John Rennie the Elder
John Rennie the Elder was a prominent Scottish civil engineer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his innovative work on canals, bridges, and docks across Britain.
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D.
James Brindley
James Brindley was an 18th-century English engineer renowned for pioneering canal construction during the early Industrial Revolution.
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E.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a pioneering 19th-century British engineer renowned for his groundbreaking work on railways, bridges, tunnels, and steamships that transformed industrial transportation.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd4436a1988190af18dcff7fd306b4 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd86d163f88190939638d44fcb24a7 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 5:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf294cb9288190ab1400dae18332de |
completed | March 21, 2026, 11:27 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:03 p.m.