Triple

T831196
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York State Canal System E17968 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Oswego Canal
The Oswego Canal is a navigable waterway in upstate New York that connects the Erie Canal to Lake Ontario, serving both commercial and recreational boat traffic.
E103411 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: Oswego Canal | Statement: [New York State Canal System, hasPart, Oswego Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oswego Canal
Context triple: [New York State Canal System, hasPart, Oswego Canal]
  • A. Erie Canal
    The Erie Canal is a historic man-made waterway in New York State that opened in 1825, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and transforming U.S. commerce and westward expansion.
  • B. Champlain Canal
    The Champlain Canal is a historic waterway in New York State that links the Hudson River to Lake Champlain, forming part of the state's inland navigation system.
  • C. New York State Canal System
    The New York State Canal System is a network of interconnected canals and waterways in New York that evolved from historic routes like the Erie Canal and now supports recreation, tourism, and limited commercial navigation.
  • D. Delaware and Hudson Canal
    The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 19th-century engineering project that transported anthracite coal from Pennsylvania to the Hudson River, playing a key role in early American industrialization and canal-era commerce.
  • E. Oswego River
    The Oswego River is a major waterway in central New York State that drains several Finger Lakes and flows northward through the city of Oswego before emptying into Lake Ontario.
  • 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: Oswego Canal
Triple: [New York State Canal System, hasPart, Oswego Canal]
Generated description
The Oswego Canal is a navigable waterway in upstate New York that connects the Erie Canal to Lake Ontario, serving both commercial and recreational boat traffic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oswego Canal
Target entity description: The Oswego Canal is a navigable waterway in upstate New York that connects the Erie Canal to Lake Ontario, serving both commercial and recreational boat traffic.
  • A. Erie Canal
    The Erie Canal is a historic man-made waterway in New York State that opened in 1825, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and transforming U.S. commerce and westward expansion.
  • B. Champlain Canal
    The Champlain Canal is a historic waterway in New York State that links the Hudson River to Lake Champlain, forming part of the state's inland navigation system.
  • C. New York State Canal System
    The New York State Canal System is a network of interconnected canals and waterways in New York that evolved from historic routes like the Erie Canal and now supports recreation, tourism, and limited commercial navigation.
  • D. Delaware and Hudson Canal
    The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 19th-century engineering project that transported anthracite coal from Pennsylvania to the Hudson River, playing a key role in early American industrialization and canal-era commerce.
  • E. Oswego River
    The Oswego River is a major waterway in central New York State that drains several Finger Lakes and flows northward through the city of Oswego before emptying into Lake Ontario.
  • 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_69a4937c9c188190aaa216f6b466f452 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4abb4be948190ae757df85bdc40e4 completed March 1, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7b84547508190b82c2012f4342529 completed March 4, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7ba424e28819088afe533fe3f1703 completed March 4, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7ba9f9be481909a30ef09721f3504 completed March 4, 2026, 4:52 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.