Triple

T17691727
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject River Exe E441042 entity
Predicate hasCanalConnection P845 FINISHED
Object Exeter Ship Canal
Exeter Ship Canal is one of the oldest artificial waterways in England, built to bypass the River Exe’s tidal shallows and enable seagoing vessels to reach the city of Exeter.
E1282146 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: Exeter Ship Canal | Statement: [River Exe, hasCanalConnection, Exeter Ship Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Exeter Ship Canal
Context triple: [River Exe, hasCanalConnection, Exeter Ship Canal]
  • A. Chester Canal
    The Chester Canal is a historic waterway in Cheshire, England, now part of the Shropshire Union Canal, that once played a key role in regional trade and transport.
  • B. Tennant Canal
    Tennant Canal is a historic industrial waterway in South Wales that once served as an important transport route for coal and other goods near Briton Ferry.
  • C. Bridgewater Channel Canal
    Bridgewater Channel Canal is a waterway in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, best known for being spanned by the relocated historic 1831 London Bridge.
  • D. Tavistock Canal
    Tavistock Canal is a historic early 19th-century waterway in Devon, England, built to serve local mines and industry and now valued as a heritage and wildlife site.
  • E. Chichester Canal
    Chichester Canal is a historic waterway in West Sussex, England, that once formed part of a route linking Chichester to the sea and is now used mainly for leisure and wildlife conservation.
  • 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: Exeter Ship Canal
Triple: [River Exe, hasCanalConnection, Exeter Ship Canal]
Generated description
Exeter Ship Canal is one of the oldest artificial waterways in England, built to bypass the River Exe’s tidal shallows and enable seagoing vessels to reach the city of Exeter.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Exeter Ship Canal
Target entity description: Exeter Ship Canal is one of the oldest artificial waterways in England, built to bypass the River Exe’s tidal shallows and enable seagoing vessels to reach the city of Exeter.
  • A. Chester Canal
    The Chester Canal is a historic waterway in Cheshire, England, now part of the Shropshire Union Canal, that once played a key role in regional trade and transport.
  • B. Tennant Canal
    Tennant Canal is a historic industrial waterway in South Wales that once served as an important transport route for coal and other goods near Briton Ferry.
  • C. Bridgewater Channel Canal
    Bridgewater Channel Canal is a waterway in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, best known for being spanned by the relocated historic 1831 London Bridge.
  • D. Tavistock Canal
    Tavistock Canal is a historic early 19th-century waterway in Devon, England, built to serve local mines and industry and now valued as a heritage and wildlife site.
  • E. Chichester Canal
    Chichester Canal is a historic waterway in West Sussex, England, that once formed part of a route linking Chichester to the sea and is now used mainly for leisure and wildlife conservation.
  • 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_69d8b9e940b081908b862bb0e6e89b0d completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e47152306c819086d483d87348db5d completed April 19, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a022331e1388190b596c7867f1c5b60 completed May 11, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a022661afd88190b57c338973571cb7 completed May 11, 2026, 6:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a022705b76481909f77bedfb9d5d30d completed May 11, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:03 a.m.