Triple

T18910794
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Coalport E462599 entity
Predicate traversedBy P225 FINISHED
Object Shropshire Canal (historic)
The Shropshire Canal was a historic English industrial waterway in Shropshire that served local coal and ironworks during the early development of the region’s canal network.
E1349389 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: Shropshire Canal (historic) | Statement: [Coalport, traversedBy, Shropshire Canal (historic)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shropshire Canal (historic)
Context triple: [Coalport, traversedBy, Shropshire Canal (historic)]
  • A. Shropshire Union Canal
    The Shropshire Union Canal is a major 19th-century English waterway linking the Midlands to northwest England, known for its long rural stretches, engineering features, and role in the country’s historic canal network.
  • B. Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
    The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is an 18th-century English inland waterway that forms a key link between the River Severn and the Midlands canal network.
  • C. Grantham Canal
    The Grantham Canal is a historic English waterway in the East Midlands that once linked the town of Grantham to the national canal network, primarily serving 18th- and 19th-century trade and now valued for leisure and wildlife.
  • D. Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
    The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal is a historic English narrow canal in the West Midlands that links the town of Stratford-upon-Avon with the national canal network and is popular for leisure boating and scenic walks.
  • 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: Shropshire Canal (historic)
Triple: [Coalport, traversedBy, Shropshire Canal (historic)]
Generated description
The Shropshire Canal was a historic English industrial waterway in Shropshire that served local coal and ironworks during the early development of the region’s canal network.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shropshire Canal (historic)
Target entity description: The Shropshire Canal was a historic English industrial waterway in Shropshire that served local coal and ironworks during the early development of the region’s canal network.
  • A. Shropshire Union Canal
    The Shropshire Union Canal is a major 19th-century English waterway linking the Midlands to northwest England, known for its long rural stretches, engineering features, and role in the country’s historic canal network.
  • B. Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
    The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is an 18th-century English inland waterway that forms a key link between the River Severn and the Midlands canal network.
  • C. Grantham Canal
    The Grantham Canal is a historic English waterway in the East Midlands that once linked the town of Grantham to the national canal network, primarily serving 18th- and 19th-century trade and now valued for leisure and wildlife.
  • D. Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
    The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal is a historic English narrow canal in the West Midlands that links the town of Stratford-upon-Avon with the national canal network and is popular for leisure boating and scenic walks.
  • 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

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_69d8dcfd05bc819088903cca13cc2846 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5c6226f4081909b77aac26c574980 completed April 20, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05910ffc8081908738b5e7ef08d52c completed May 14, 2026, 9:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05932531ec8190813d393c85d7c398 completed May 14, 2026, 9:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0593b4c6b0819094d267c568332250 completed May 14, 2026, 9:19 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:58 a.m.