Triple

T17793973
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walsall Canal E444240 entity
Predicate connectsTo P845 FINISHED
Object Walsall Junction Canal
The Walsall Junction Canal is a short branch of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands, England, linking key routes within the Walsall canal network.
E444240 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: Walsall Junction Canal | Statement: [Walsall Canal, connectsTo, Walsall Junction Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walsall Junction Canal
Context triple: [Walsall Canal, connectsTo, Walsall Junction Canal]
  • A. Walsall Canal
    The Walsall Canal is a historic narrow canal in the West Midlands, England, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and serving the industrial town of Walsall.
  • B. Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal
    The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal is a historic English waterway that forms a key part of the route between the Midlands and the northwest, now incorporated into the Shropshire Union Canal network.
  • C. Wyrley and Essington Canal
    The Wyrley and Essington Canal is an historic inland waterway in the West Midlands of England, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and serving former industrial towns such as Walsall.
  • D. Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
    The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal that forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, linking Birmingham with Fazeley and connecting to wider Midlands waterways.
  • E. Coventry Canal
    The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
  • 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: Walsall Junction Canal
Triple: [Walsall Canal, connectsTo, Walsall Junction Canal]
Generated description
The Walsall Junction Canal is a short branch of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands, England, linking key routes within the Walsall canal network.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walsall Junction Canal
Target entity description: The Walsall Junction Canal is a short branch of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands, England, linking key routes within the Walsall canal network.
  • A. Walsall Canal chosen
    The Walsall Canal is a historic narrow canal in the West Midlands, England, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and serving the industrial town of Walsall.
  • B. Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal
    The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal is a historic English waterway that forms a key part of the route between the Midlands and the northwest, now incorporated into the Shropshire Union Canal network.
  • C. Wyrley and Essington Canal
    The Wyrley and Essington Canal is an historic inland waterway in the West Midlands of England, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations and serving former industrial towns such as Walsall.
  • D. Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
    The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal that forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, linking Birmingham with Fazeley and connecting to wider Midlands waterways.
  • E. Coventry Canal
    The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
  • 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_69d8b9efe370819095cd219b143ae727 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e487993a6c8190805e06d93dfc0dce completed April 19, 2026, 7:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a030c5557788190bfd7b9af6d8d3035 completed May 12, 2026, 11:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a030cf60a9c8190903b3b563238b575 completed May 12, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a030d8a3a1c81909e311d19201bbd42 completed May 12, 2026, 11:22 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:13 a.m.