Triple

T13468118
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin E311556 entity
Predicate waterway P1778 FINISHED
Object Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal
The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal is a man-made channel in Wisconsin that connects Sturgeon Bay on Green Bay to Lake Michigan, providing a navigable shortcut for commercial and recreational vessels.
E1042686 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: Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal | Statement: [Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, waterway, Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal
Context triple: [Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, waterway, Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal]
  • A. Duluth Ship Canal
    The Duluth Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in Duluth, Minnesota, that provides access between Lake Superior and the Duluth–Superior Harbor for large commercial and recreational vessels.
  • B. Keweenaw Waterway
    The Keweenaw Waterway is a navigable canal and natural waterway system in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula, connecting Lake Superior’s north and south shores.
  • C. Sault Ste. Marie Canal
    The Sault Ste. Marie Canal is a historic Canadian lock and canal system in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that once formed a key part of Great Lakes shipping and is now a National Historic Site.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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: Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal
Triple: [Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, waterway, Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal]
Generated description
The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal is a man-made channel in Wisconsin that connects Sturgeon Bay on Green Bay to Lake Michigan, providing a navigable shortcut for commercial and recreational vessels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal
Target entity description: The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal is a man-made channel in Wisconsin that connects Sturgeon Bay on Green Bay to Lake Michigan, providing a navigable shortcut for commercial and recreational vessels.
  • A. Duluth Ship Canal
    The Duluth Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in Duluth, Minnesota, that provides access between Lake Superior and the Duluth–Superior Harbor for large commercial and recreational vessels.
  • B. Keweenaw Waterway
    The Keweenaw Waterway is a navigable canal and natural waterway system in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula, connecting Lake Superior’s north and south shores.
  • C. Sault Ste. Marie Canal
    The Sault Ste. Marie Canal is a historic Canadian lock and canal system in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that once formed a key part of Great Lakes shipping and is now a National Historic Site.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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_69d806a938b8819097ec43a2229fc7f9 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaf21e46081908a00c9acf54f270f completed April 12, 2026, 2:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f74629f1408190b54194fe794be39a completed May 3, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7493168a481908f99283914b39db5 completed May 3, 2026, 1:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7499aa5ac8190a93afda115694795 completed May 3, 2026, 1:11 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:42 p.m.