Triple

T8018248
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brooklyn Community District 6 E186673 entity
Predicate hasWaterfront P1489 FINISHED
Object Gowanus Canal
The Gowanus Canal is a heavily polluted industrial waterway in Brooklyn, New York City, known for its Superfund cleanup status and ongoing waterfront redevelopment efforts.
E707675 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: Gowanus Canal | Statement: [Brooklyn Community District 6, hasWaterfront, Gowanus Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gowanus Canal
Context triple: [Brooklyn Community District 6, hasWaterfront, Gowanus Canal]
  • A. Gowanus Bay
    Gowanus Bay is a small industrial and maritime inlet off Upper New York Bay along the Brooklyn waterfront in New York City.
  • B. Harlem River Ship Canal
    The Harlem River Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in New York City that connects the Hudson and Harlem Rivers, effectively separating Marble Hill from the rest of Manhattan.
  • C. Newtown Creek
    Newtown Creek is a heavily industrialized tidal estuary in New York City that forms part of the boundary between Brooklyn and Queens and is known as one of the most polluted waterways in the United States.
  • D. Newtown Creek
    Newtown Creek is a small waterway in Chemung County, New York, that flows near and through the Town of Horseheads and contributes to the local watershed.
  • E. Coney Island Creek
    Coney Island Creek is a tidal inlet and remnant of a former estuary in southern Brooklyn, New York City, separating Coney Island from the mainland and flowing into Gravesend Bay.
  • 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: Gowanus Canal
Triple: [Brooklyn Community District 6, hasWaterfront, Gowanus Canal]
Generated description
The Gowanus Canal is a heavily polluted industrial waterway in Brooklyn, New York City, known for its Superfund cleanup status and ongoing waterfront redevelopment efforts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gowanus Canal
Target entity description: The Gowanus Canal is a heavily polluted industrial waterway in Brooklyn, New York City, known for its Superfund cleanup status and ongoing waterfront redevelopment efforts.
  • A. Gowanus Bay
    Gowanus Bay is a small industrial and maritime inlet off Upper New York Bay along the Brooklyn waterfront in New York City.
  • B. Harlem River Ship Canal
    The Harlem River Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in New York City that connects the Hudson and Harlem Rivers, effectively separating Marble Hill from the rest of Manhattan.
  • C. Newtown Creek
    Newtown Creek is a heavily industrialized tidal estuary in New York City that forms part of the boundary between Brooklyn and Queens and is known as one of the most polluted waterways in the United States.
  • D. Newtown Creek
    Newtown Creek is a small waterway in Chemung County, New York, that flows near and through the Town of Horseheads and contributes to the local watershed.
  • E. Coney Island Creek
    Coney Island Creek is a tidal inlet and remnant of a former estuary in southern Brooklyn, New York City, separating Coney Island from the mainland and flowing into Gravesend Bay.
  • 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_69ca82ac7fc081909b1398cf025423af completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3df626e8819098a9f8908dfdad3b completed March 31, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc56c213ec8190b3bd96c42d1357e4 completed March 31, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc58a9e94081908980e2c60be38642 completed March 31, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc5cbaefb481909eb325f0d27675c0 completed March 31, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:20 p.m.