Triple

T17653631
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Buffalo waterfront area E429557 entity
Predicate governingBody P46 FINISHED
Object Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation
The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation is a public agency responsible for planning, managing, and promoting redevelopment and economic revitalization along Buffalo’s historic waterfront.
E1280693 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: Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation | Statement: [Buffalo waterfront area, governingBody, Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation
Context triple: [Buffalo waterfront area, governingBody, Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation]
  • A. New York State Canal Corporation
    The New York State Canal Corporation is the public agency responsible for operating, maintaining, and promoting New York’s historic canal system, including the Erie, Champlain, Oswego, and Cayuga-Seneca Canals.
  • B. Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
    The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was a 19th-century American transportation enterprise that developed one of the earliest integrated canal and railroad systems to move coal from Pennsylvania to markets in New York and beyond.
  • C. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
    The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is a U.S. federal agency responsible for operating and maintaining the American portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a key commercial shipping route connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • D. Delaware River and Bay Authority
    The Delaware River and Bay Authority is a bi-state governmental agency that manages and operates transportation infrastructure and services, including bridges, ferries, and airports, between Delaware and New Jersey.
  • E. Niagara Falls Bridge Commission
    The Niagara Falls Bridge Commission is a bi-national public agency that owns and operates key international bridges connecting the United States and Canada in the Niagara Falls region.
  • 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: Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation
Triple: [Buffalo waterfront area, governingBody, Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation]
Generated description
The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation is a public agency responsible for planning, managing, and promoting redevelopment and economic revitalization along Buffalo’s historic waterfront.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation
Target entity description: The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation is a public agency responsible for planning, managing, and promoting redevelopment and economic revitalization along Buffalo’s historic waterfront.
  • A. New York State Canal Corporation
    The New York State Canal Corporation is the public agency responsible for operating, maintaining, and promoting New York’s historic canal system, including the Erie, Champlain, Oswego, and Cayuga-Seneca Canals.
  • B. Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
    The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was a 19th-century American transportation enterprise that developed one of the earliest integrated canal and railroad systems to move coal from Pennsylvania to markets in New York and beyond.
  • C. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
    The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is a U.S. federal agency responsible for operating and maintaining the American portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a key commercial shipping route connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • D. Delaware River and Bay Authority
    The Delaware River and Bay Authority is a bi-state governmental agency that manages and operates transportation infrastructure and services, including bridges, ferries, and airports, between Delaware and New Jersey.
  • E. Niagara Falls Bridge Commission
    The Niagara Falls Bridge Commission is a bi-national public agency that owns and operates key international bridges connecting the United States and Canada in the Niagara Falls region.
  • 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_69d889e2c2608190b762e76d9b2262f1 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e46e3ed8b08190a00efdad9740bf6f completed April 19, 2026, 5:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a02165471208190801fd5118e483535 completed May 11, 2026, 5:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a021825b8e88190ba18669deba94cac completed May 11, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0218d29b9481909c5e48774fc6f68c completed May 11, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 6:05 a.m.