Triple
T5966185
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Middlewich |
E132757
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasCanal |
P35
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Shropshire Union Canal Middlewich Branch |
E551173
|
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: Shropshire Union Canal Middlewich Branch | Statement: [Middlewich, hasCanal, Shropshire Union Canal Middlewich Branch]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shropshire Union Canal Middlewich Branch Context triple: [Middlewich, hasCanal, Shropshire Union Canal Middlewich Branch]
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A.
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is an 18th-century English inland waterway that forms a key link between the River Severn and the Midlands canal network.
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B.
Walsall Canal
The Walsall Canal is a historic narrow canal in the West Midlands, England, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and serving the industrial town of Walsall.
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C.
Wyrley and Essington Canal
The Wyrley and Essington Canal is an historic inland waterway in the West Midlands of England, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and serving former industrial towns such as Walsall.
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D.
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal that forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, linking Birmingham with Fazeley and connecting to wider Midlands waterways.
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E.
Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal
chosen
The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal is a historic English waterway that forms a key part of the route between the Midlands and the northwest, now incorporated into the Shropshire Union Canal network.
- 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_69c0086c2364819091e9fe2f58fa2517 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c03a3e06848190b1d1a191db257a07 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 6:51 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c0e3f917c881909c4f780937c5fa7b |
completed | March 23, 2026, 6:55 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:03 p.m.