Triple

T8928017
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Seattle street grid E212583 entity
Predicate constrainedBy P12029 FINISHED
Object Ship Canal
The Ship Canal in Seattle is a man-made waterway connecting Lake Washington to Puget Sound, shaping the city’s geography, infrastructure, and maritime activity.
E766126 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: Ship Canal | Statement: [Seattle street grid, constrainedBy, Ship Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ship Canal
Context triple: [Seattle street grid, constrainedBy, Ship Canal]
  • A. Gage Canal
    Gage Canal is a historic irrigation canal in Riverside, California, that played a crucial role in developing the region’s citrus industry and agricultural growth.
  • B. Hansi Branch Canal
    Hansi Branch Canal is a major irrigation canal in Haryana, India, that diverts water from the Western Yamuna Canal to serve agricultural areas in the region.
  • C. Canso Canal
    The Canso Canal is a navigation channel in Nova Scotia that allows ships to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and the Northumberland Strait through the Canso Causeway.
  • D. Landwehr Canal
    The Landwehr Canal is a 19th-century man-made waterway in Berlin that runs parallel to the River Spree and passes through several central districts, serving both transport and recreational purposes.
  • E. Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
    The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in Illinois that reverses the flow of the Chicago River, diverts wastewater away from Lake Michigan, and serves as a key navigation link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River 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: Ship Canal
Triple: [Seattle street grid, constrainedBy, Ship Canal]
Generated description
The Ship Canal in Seattle is a man-made waterway connecting Lake Washington to Puget Sound, shaping the city’s geography, infrastructure, and maritime activity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ship Canal
Target entity description: The Ship Canal in Seattle is a man-made waterway connecting Lake Washington to Puget Sound, shaping the city’s geography, infrastructure, and maritime activity.
  • A. Gage Canal
    Gage Canal is a historic irrigation canal in Riverside, California, that played a crucial role in developing the region’s citrus industry and agricultural growth.
  • B. Hansi Branch Canal
    Hansi Branch Canal is a major irrigation canal in Haryana, India, that diverts water from the Western Yamuna Canal to serve agricultural areas in the region.
  • C. Canso Canal
    The Canso Canal is a navigation channel in Nova Scotia that allows ships to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and the Northumberland Strait through the Canso Causeway.
  • D. Landwehr Canal
    The Landwehr Canal is a 19th-century man-made waterway in Berlin that runs parallel to the River Spree and passes through several central districts, serving both transport and recreational purposes.
  • E. Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
    The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in Illinois that reverses the flow of the Chicago River, diverts wastewater away from Lake Michigan, and serves as a key navigation link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River 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_69ca8395c438819087d7cb844ab5990c completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6672af10819084a6e50f0302f732 completed April 1, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfba5e887c8190851f2fb533653c6e completed April 3, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfbab0b0048190a0ad002787dddffa completed April 3, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfbb4f1f6881908ec9e419d175d044 completed April 3, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:57 p.m.