Triple

T8574640
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Portage, Indiana E203016 entity
Predicate adjacentBodyOfWater P25960 FINISHED
Object Burns Waterway
Burns Waterway is a man-made channel in northwest Indiana that connects inland waterways to Lake Michigan near the city of Portage.
E742586 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: Burns Waterway | Statement: [Portage, Indiana, adjacentBodyOfWater, Burns Waterway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burns Waterway
Context triple: [Portage, Indiana, adjacentBodyOfWater, Burns Waterway]
  • A. Sitcum Waterway
    Sitcum Waterway is an industrial maritime channel in Tacoma, Washington, forming part of the harbor infrastructure connected to Commencement Bay.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. North Canal
    North Canal is an irrigation waterway that forms part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Klamath Project, delivering diverted water to agricultural lands in the Klamath Basin.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Burns Waterway
Triple: [Portage, Indiana, adjacentBodyOfWater, Burns Waterway]
Generated description
Burns Waterway is a man-made channel in northwest Indiana that connects inland waterways to Lake Michigan near the city of Portage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burns Waterway
Target entity description: Burns Waterway is a man-made channel in northwest Indiana that connects inland waterways to Lake Michigan near the city of Portage.
  • A. Sitcum Waterway
    Sitcum Waterway is an industrial maritime channel in Tacoma, Washington, forming part of the harbor infrastructure connected to Commencement Bay.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. North Canal
    North Canal is an irrigation waterway that forms part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Klamath Project, delivering diverted water to agricultural lands in the Klamath Basin.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ca8328ebe481909a8c038fa79959b4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbea947f188190af469babaa73ddf6 completed March 31, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce8995d1d081909f6a27220c2c267e completed April 2, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce8a9df47c81909ba9ef8dff1db7b1 completed April 2, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce8b48841c8190bcf11aeb25355649 completed April 2, 2026, 3:29 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:21 p.m.