Triple

T11845531
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Portage Lake (Michigan) E281764 entity
Predicate connectedBy P37 FINISHED
Object Portage Canal
Portage Canal is a man-made waterway in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula that provides a navigable connection between Portage Lake and Lake Superior, historically important for regional shipping and mining.
E949305 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: Portage Canal | Statement: [Portage Lake (Michigan), connectedBy, Portage Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portage Canal
Context triple: [Portage Lake (Michigan), connectedBy, Portage Canal]
  • A. Champlain Canal
    The Champlain Canal is a historic waterway in New York State that links the Hudson River to Lake Champlain, forming part of the state's inland navigation system.
  • B. Blackstone Canal
    The Blackstone Canal is a historic 19th-century waterway in the northeastern United States that played a key role in early industrial transportation and the development of mill towns in the Blackstone Valley.
  • C. Erie Canal
    The Erie Canal is a historic man-made waterway in New York State that opened in 1825, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and transforming U.S. commerce and westward expansion.
  • D. Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal
    Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal is a major industrial waterway in northwest Indiana that serves as a key shipping and steel-production hub on the southern shore of Lake Michigan.
  • E. Cayuga–Seneca Canal
    The Cayuga–Seneca Canal is a navigable waterway in upstate New York that links Cayuga and Seneca Lakes to the Erie Canal, facilitating regional transportation and recreation.
  • 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: Portage Canal
Triple: [Portage Lake (Michigan), connectedBy, Portage Canal]
Generated description
Portage Canal is a man-made waterway in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula that provides a navigable connection between Portage Lake and Lake Superior, historically important for regional shipping and mining.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portage Canal
Target entity description: Portage Canal is a man-made waterway in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula that provides a navigable connection between Portage Lake and Lake Superior, historically important for regional shipping and mining.
  • A. Champlain Canal
    The Champlain Canal is a historic waterway in New York State that links the Hudson River to Lake Champlain, forming part of the state's inland navigation system.
  • B. Blackstone Canal
    The Blackstone Canal is a historic 19th-century waterway in the northeastern United States that played a key role in early industrial transportation and the development of mill towns in the Blackstone Valley.
  • C. Erie Canal
    The Erie Canal is a historic man-made waterway in New York State that opened in 1825, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and transforming U.S. commerce and westward expansion.
  • D. Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal
    Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal is a major industrial waterway in northwest Indiana that serves as a key shipping and steel-production hub on the southern shore of Lake Michigan.
  • E. Cayuga–Seneca Canal
    The Cayuga–Seneca Canal is a navigable waterway in upstate New York that links Cayuga and Seneca Lakes to the Erie Canal, facilitating regional transportation and recreation.
  • 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_69d6ab287ba48190a5178779fd19b9b7 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a65b5ff08190bb58361f6a6acdca completed April 10, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f167a876048190aeeeccebae9e46ad completed April 29, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f17005c318819090e54bc64d135477 completed April 29, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f17814de1881908973af026af5d1d1 completed April 29, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:43 p.m.