Triple

T9085891

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Erewash Canal	`E217752`	entity
Predicate	partOf	`P40`	FINISHED
Object	British inland waterways network The British inland waterways network is an interconnected system of canals and navigable rivers across the United Kingdom used for leisure boating, heritage conservation, and some commercial transport.	`E435723`	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: British inland waterways network | Statement: [Erewash Canal, partOf, British inland waterways network]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: British inland waterways network
Context triple: [Erewash Canal, partOf, British inland waterways network]

A. Scottish inland waterways network
The Scottish inland waterways network is an interconnected system of canals, rivers, and lochs across Scotland used for navigation, recreation, and heritage tourism.
B. Inland waterway network of England
The inland waterway network of England is an interconnected system of canals and navigable rivers used historically for transport and industry and now largely for leisure boating and tourism.
C. Midlands canal network
The Midlands canal network is an interconnected system of historic inland waterways in central England that played a key role in the region’s industrial transport and trade.
D. Pennine waterways
Pennine waterways are a network of interconnected canals and navigable rivers crossing England’s Pennine hills, historically used for industrial transport and now popular for leisure boating and tourism.
E. Aire and Calder Navigation
The Aire and Calder Navigation is a major canalised river and waterway in West Yorkshire, England, historically important for transporting coal and goods between the industrial towns of the Pennines and the Humber estuary.
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: British inland waterways network
Triple: [Erewash Canal, partOf, British inland waterways network]

Generated description

The British inland waterways network is an interconnected system of canals and navigable rivers across the United Kingdom used for leisure boating, heritage conservation, and some commercial transport.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: British inland waterways network
Target entity description: The British inland waterways network is an interconnected system of canals and navigable rivers across the United Kingdom used for leisure boating, heritage conservation, and some commercial transport.

A. Scottish inland waterways network
The Scottish inland waterways network is an interconnected system of canals, rivers, and lochs across Scotland used for navigation, recreation, and heritage tourism.
B. Inland waterway network of England chosen
The inland waterway network of England is an interconnected system of canals and navigable rivers used historically for transport and industry and now largely for leisure boating and tourism.
C. Midlands canal network
The Midlands canal network is an interconnected system of historic inland waterways in central England that played a key role in the region’s industrial transport and trade.
D. Pennine waterways
Pennine waterways are a network of interconnected canals and navigable rivers crossing England’s Pennine hills, historically used for industrial transport and now popular for leisure boating and tourism.
E. Aire and Calder Navigation
The Aire and Calder Navigation is a major canalised river and waterway in West Yorkshire, England, historically important for transporting coal and goods between the industrial towns of the Pennines and the Humber estuary.
F. None of above.

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_69ca83d7a0388190ba1af89ed7ba36f9`	completed	March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69cc9654cb3c819089fa8c0ab0841c81`	completed	April 1, 2026, 3:51 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69cffe40823481909a5c4b82bd24293a`	completed	April 3, 2026, 5:52 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69d000d5b24481908679dbb92372c4b9`	completed	April 3, 2026, 6:03 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69d001692c3481909924615717e316c2`	completed	April 3, 2026, 6:05 p.m.

Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:13 p.m.