Triple

T142829
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Erie Canal E2888 entity
Predicate nickname P55 FINISHED
Object Clinton's Ditch
Clinton's Ditch is an early nickname for the Erie Canal, the 19th-century New York waterway championed by Governor DeWitt Clinton that dramatically boosted trade and westward expansion in the United States.
E16792 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: Clinton's Ditch | Statement: [Erie Canal, nickname, Clinton's Ditch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clinton's Ditch
Context triple: [Erie Canal, nickname, Clinton's Ditch]
  • A. Mr. President
    "Mr. President" is the formal style of address used for the presiding officer of the Massachusetts Senate.
  • B. Mr. President
    "Mr. President" is the formal spoken address traditionally used for the sitting President of the United States.
  • C. Committee to Re-elect the President
    The Committee to Re-elect the President was U.S. President Richard Nixon’s 1972 campaign organization, best known for its central role in financing and orchestrating activities that led to the Watergate scandal.
  • D. Hundred Days
    The Hundred Days refers to the intense early period of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency in 1933 when a flurry of New Deal legislation was rapidly enacted to combat the Great Depression.
  • E. Hundred Days
    The Hundred Days was the brief 1815 period between Napoleon Bonaparte’s return from exile and his final defeat at Waterloo, marking the last phase of the Napoleonic Wars.
  • 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: Clinton's Ditch
Triple: [Erie Canal, nickname, Clinton's Ditch]
Generated description
Clinton's Ditch is an early nickname for the Erie Canal, the 19th-century New York waterway championed by Governor DeWitt Clinton that dramatically boosted trade and westward expansion in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clinton's Ditch
Target entity description: Clinton's Ditch is an early nickname for the Erie Canal, the 19th-century New York waterway championed by Governor DeWitt Clinton that dramatically boosted trade and westward expansion in the United States.
  • A. Mr. President
    "Mr. President" is the formal style of address used for the presiding officer of the Massachusetts Senate.
  • B. Mr. President
    "Mr. President" is the formal spoken address traditionally used for the sitting President of the United States.
  • C. Committee to Re-elect the President
    The Committee to Re-elect the President was U.S. President Richard Nixon’s 1972 campaign organization, best known for its central role in financing and orchestrating activities that led to the Watergate scandal.
  • D. Hundred Days
    The Hundred Days refers to the intense early period of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency in 1933 when a flurry of New Deal legislation was rapidly enacted to combat the Great Depression.
  • E. Hundred Days
    The Hundred Days was the brief 1815 period between Napoleon Bonaparte’s return from exile and his final defeat at Waterloo, marking the last phase of the Napoleonic Wars.
  • 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_69a2521e35c08190b28e5c9f1e3c9b59 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a257c9cab8819095e8d9fa32c1fbc6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b860df1481909d6d64ac45dd6eae completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2baa4ac048190957929b92e106233 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2bb038c648190a53442cedfa26ec0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.