Triple

T6881173
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barton-upon-Irwell E158799 entity
Predicate near P350 FINISHED
Object Manchester Ship Canal E912 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Manchester Ship Canal | Statement: [Barton-upon-Irwell, near, Manchester Ship Canal]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Manchester Ship Canal
Context triple: [Barton-upon-Irwell, near, Manchester Ship Canal]
  • A. Manchester Ship Canal chosen
    The Manchester Ship Canal is a major 19th-century inland waterway in northwest England that enabled ocean-going ships to reach the industrial city of Manchester from the Irish Sea.
  • B. Grand Union Canal
    The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Chester Canal
    The Chester Canal is a historic waterway in Cheshire, England, now part of the Shropshire Union Canal, that once played a key role in regional trade and transport.
  • E. Sankey Canal
    Sankey Canal is one of England’s earliest industrial canals, historically built to transport coal and other goods in the northwest of the country.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69c688342f6c8190ad7eea6ba262db99 elicitation completed
NER batch_69c6d8e798c08190b1f494a2c1445514 ner completed
NED1 batch_69c742c999cc8190a14aa0ae6c7a1f54 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:23 p.m.