Triple

T5488185
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Blackstone Valley E123636 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Blackstone Canal
The Blackstone Canal is a historic 19th-century waterway in the northeastern United States that played a key role in early industrial transportation and the development of mill towns in the Blackstone Valley.
E522834 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: Blackstone Canal | Statement: [Blackstone Valley, associatedWith, Blackstone Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blackstone Canal
Context triple: [Blackstone Valley, associatedWith, Blackstone Canal]
  • A. Burlington Canal
    The Burlington Canal is a navigational waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides ship access between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour.
  • B. East Low Canal
    The East Low Canal is a major irrigation waterway in central Washington State that delivers Columbia River water to farmlands as part of the Columbia Basin’s large-scale reclamation system.
  • C. Gage Canal
    Gage Canal is a historic irrigation canal in Riverside, California, that played a crucial role in developing the region’s citrus industry and agricultural growth.
  • D. Barkley Canal
    Barkley Canal is a man-made waterway in western Kentucky that links Kentucky Lake with Lake Barkley, enabling navigation between the two reservoirs.
  • E. Patowmack Canal
    The Patowmack Canal was an early American canal project along the Potomac River, championed by George Washington to improve inland navigation and trade in the late 18th century.
  • 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: Blackstone Canal
Triple: [Blackstone Valley, associatedWith, Blackstone Canal]
Generated description
The Blackstone Canal is a historic 19th-century waterway in the northeastern United States that played a key role in early industrial transportation and the development of mill towns in the Blackstone Valley.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blackstone Canal
Target entity description: The Blackstone Canal is a historic 19th-century waterway in the northeastern United States that played a key role in early industrial transportation and the development of mill towns in the Blackstone Valley.
  • A. Burlington Canal
    The Burlington Canal is a navigational waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides ship access between Lake Ontario and Hamilton Harbour.
  • B. East Low Canal
    The East Low Canal is a major irrigation waterway in central Washington State that delivers Columbia River water to farmlands as part of the Columbia Basin’s large-scale reclamation system.
  • C. Gage Canal
    Gage Canal is a historic irrigation canal in Riverside, California, that played a crucial role in developing the region’s citrus industry and agricultural growth.
  • D. Barkley Canal
    Barkley Canal is a man-made waterway in western Kentucky that links Kentucky Lake with Lake Barkley, enabling navigation between the two reservoirs.
  • E. Patowmack Canal
    The Patowmack Canal was an early American canal project along the Potomac River, championed by George Washington to improve inland navigation and trade in the late 18th century.
  • 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_69bd464a2d908190869324ce176779c8 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd9264d014819097c83bb5c2bb8c39 completed March 20, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf48aa12708190add69c5fd51d161d completed March 22, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf4a2b6c508190ad13f6d9823ad747 completed March 22, 2026, 1:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf4a87d1fc8190a0e0e75d6f9cd766 completed March 22, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:10 p.m.