Triple

T12253176
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Farmington Canal Heritage Trail E292026 entity
Predicate followsRouteOf P2127 FINISHED
Object Farmington Canal
The Farmington Canal was a 19th-century waterway in Connecticut and Massachusetts built to facilitate regional trade and transportation before being supplanted by railroads.
E972578 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: Farmington Canal | Statement: [Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, followsRouteOf, Farmington Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Farmington Canal
Context triple: [Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, followsRouteOf, Farmington Canal]
  • A. Morris Canal
    The Morris Canal was a historic 19th-century New Jersey canal that transported coal and other goods across the state using an innovative system of inclined planes and locks.
  • B. Shinnecock Canal
    Shinnecock Canal is a man-made waterway on Long Island, New York, that connects Great Peconic Bay with Shinnecock Bay and helps regulate tidal flow between them.
  • C. Delaware and Hudson Canal
    The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 19th-century engineering project that transported anthracite coal from Pennsylvania to the Hudson River, playing a key role in early American industrialization and canal-era commerce.
  • D. Lehigh Canal
    The Lehigh Canal is a historic 19th-century navigation canal in eastern Pennsylvania that was built to transport anthracite coal and fostered early American industrial development along the Lehigh River.
  • E. Delaware Aqueduct
    The Delaware Aqueduct is a major underground tunnel that transports drinking water from reservoirs in the Delaware River watershed to New York City, forming a critical component of the city’s water supply infrastructure.
  • 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: Farmington Canal
Triple: [Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, followsRouteOf, Farmington Canal]
Generated description
The Farmington Canal was a 19th-century waterway in Connecticut and Massachusetts built to facilitate regional trade and transportation before being supplanted by railroads.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Farmington Canal
Target entity description: The Farmington Canal was a 19th-century waterway in Connecticut and Massachusetts built to facilitate regional trade and transportation before being supplanted by railroads.
  • A. Morris Canal
    The Morris Canal was a historic 19th-century New Jersey canal that transported coal and other goods across the state using an innovative system of inclined planes and locks.
  • B. Shinnecock Canal
    Shinnecock Canal is a man-made waterway on Long Island, New York, that connects Great Peconic Bay with Shinnecock Bay and helps regulate tidal flow between them.
  • C. Delaware and Hudson Canal
    The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 19th-century engineering project that transported anthracite coal from Pennsylvania to the Hudson River, playing a key role in early American industrialization and canal-era commerce.
  • D. Lehigh Canal
    The Lehigh Canal is a historic 19th-century navigation canal in eastern Pennsylvania that was built to transport anthracite coal and fostered early American industrial development along the Lehigh River.
  • E. Delaware Aqueduct
    The Delaware Aqueduct is a historic 19th-century suspension aqueduct that carried the Delaware and Hudson Canal over the Delaware River and is now preserved as the oldest surviving wire suspension bridge in the United States.
  • 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_69d6ab67950c8190be08450a06228c4b completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91cc849308190b6ff416f8b4f01e8 completed April 10, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f60abdc5988190a19104385f54fb06 completed May 2, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f60d8456d881908b5647b77fc53780 completed May 2, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f60e2c52b0819094c8e67286235400 completed May 2, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:52 p.m.