Triple

T9889578
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Qin Shi Huang E181418 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Lingqu Canal project
The Lingqu Canal project is an ancient Chinese waterway built under Qin Shi Huang that linked the Xiang and Li rivers, creating a strategic transport route between the Yangtze and Pearl River systems.
E827526 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: Lingqu Canal project | Statement: [Qin Shi Huang, knownFor, Lingqu Canal project]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lingqu Canal project
Context triple: [Qin Shi Huang, knownFor, Lingqu Canal project]
  • A. Grand Canal of China
    The Grand Canal of China is an ancient, extensive man-made waterway system that historically linked northern and southern China, facilitating trade, transport, and economic integration for over a millennium.
  • B. Dujiangyan Irrigation System
    Dujiangyan Irrigation System is an ancient Chinese water-management project built around the 3rd century BCE that still functions today, renowned for its innovative design that controls flooding and irrigates vast areas without using a traditional dam.
  • C. Grand Canal
    The Grand Canal is the main S-shaped waterway in Venice, Italy, lined with historic palaces and serving as the city’s primary thoroughfare for boats and vaporetti.
  • D. Grand Canal
    The Grand Canal is a major man-made waterway in Ireland that historically linked Dublin to the River Shannon, serving as an important route for transport and trade.
  • E. Grand Canal
    The Grand Canal at Versailles is a vast ornamental waterway forming a central axis and focal point of the palace gardens, used historically for boating and court festivities.
  • 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: Lingqu Canal project
Triple: [Qin Shi Huang, knownFor, Lingqu Canal project]
Generated description
The Lingqu Canal project is an ancient Chinese waterway built under Qin Shi Huang that linked the Xiang and Li rivers, creating a strategic transport route between the Yangtze and Pearl River systems.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lingqu Canal project
Target entity description: The Lingqu Canal project is an ancient Chinese waterway built under Qin Shi Huang that linked the Xiang and Li rivers, creating a strategic transport route between the Yangtze and Pearl River systems.
  • A. Grand Canal of China
    The Grand Canal of China is an ancient, extensive man-made waterway system that historically linked northern and southern China, facilitating trade, transport, and economic integration for over a millennium.
  • B. Dujiangyan Irrigation System
    Dujiangyan Irrigation System is an ancient Chinese water-management project built around the 3rd century BCE that still functions today, renowned for its innovative design that controls flooding and irrigates vast areas without using a traditional dam.
  • C. Grand Canal
    The Grand Canal is the main S-shaped waterway in Venice, Italy, lined with historic palaces and serving as the city’s primary thoroughfare for boats and vaporetti.
  • D. Grand Canal
    The Grand Canal at Versailles is a vast ornamental waterway forming a central axis and focal point of the palace gardens, used historically for boating and court festivities.
  • E. Grand Canal
    The Grand Canal is a major man-made waterway in Ireland that historically linked Dublin to the River Shannon, serving as an important route for transport and trade.
  • 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_69ca8283a6708190801af7a25a7ebb9f completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb47be2988190811a99dc56ae542a completed April 2, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1eb08075c81908e017df8048daba8 completed April 5, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1eca8703c8190a473fdafa2a2d273 completed April 5, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1ed2a1318819087a5b787724fa10c completed April 5, 2026, 5:03 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:39 p.m.