Triple

T12520447
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Union occupation of Alexandria, Virginia E299299 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Alexandria Canal
The Alexandria Canal was a 19th-century waterway in Virginia that linked the city of Alexandria to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, serving as an important commercial and strategic route before and during the Civil War.
E986131 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: Alexandria Canal | Statement: [Union occupation of Alexandria, Virginia, associatedWith, Alexandria Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexandria Canal
Context triple: [Union occupation of Alexandria, Virginia, associatedWith, Alexandria Canal]
  • A. St. Peters Canal
    St. Peters Canal is a historic man-made waterway in Nova Scotia, Canada, that allows vessels to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and the inland Bras d'Or Lake.
  • B. Menua Canal
    The Menua Canal is an ancient irrigation and water-supply channel built in the 9th century BCE under the Urartian king Menua near modern-day Van in eastern Turkey.
  • C. Tamiami Canal
    Tamiami Canal is a major man-made waterway in South Florida that runs parallel to the Tamiami Trail, helping drain the Everglades and manage water flow around the Miami metropolitan area.
  • D. Suez Canal
    The Suez Canal is a man-made waterway in Egypt that links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, serving as one of the world’s most important shipping routes between Europe and Asia.
  • E. Ohau Canal
    Ohau Canal is a man-made waterway in New Zealand’s South Island that links hydroelectric lakes in the Mackenzie Basin and is popular for salmon and trout fishing.
  • 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: Alexandria Canal
Triple: [Union occupation of Alexandria, Virginia, associatedWith, Alexandria Canal]
Generated description
The Alexandria Canal was a 19th-century waterway in Virginia that linked the city of Alexandria to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, serving as an important commercial and strategic route before and during the Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexandria Canal
Target entity description: The Alexandria Canal was a 19th-century waterway in Virginia that linked the city of Alexandria to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, serving as an important commercial and strategic route before and during the Civil War.
  • A. St. Peters Canal
    St. Peters Canal is a historic man-made waterway in Nova Scotia, Canada, that allows vessels to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and the inland Bras d'Or Lake.
  • B. Menua Canal
    The Menua Canal is an ancient irrigation and water-supply channel built in the 9th century BCE under the Urartian king Menua near modern-day Van in eastern Turkey.
  • C. Tamiami Canal
    Tamiami Canal is a major man-made waterway in South Florida that runs parallel to the Tamiami Trail, helping drain the Everglades and manage water flow around the Miami metropolitan area.
  • D. Suez Canal
    The Suez Canal is a man-made waterway in Egypt that links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, serving as one of the world’s most important shipping routes between Europe and Asia.
  • E. Ohau Canal
    Ohau Canal is a man-made waterway in New Zealand’s South Island that links hydroelectric lakes in the Mackenzie Basin and is popular for salmon and trout fishing.
  • 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_69d6ada5cdd48190860d9ce30aff69be completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9545b2b2481909049a490c97678f2 completed April 10, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f64bbf43e08190ae79f92ed5882ce2 completed May 2, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f64c7c5d04819094fcbee0a4b5cbb4 completed May 2, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f64d653b988190b11d061f55ef7192 completed May 2, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:57 p.m.