Triple

T1597048
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Stone Dam E34306 entity
Predicate feeds P9008 FINISHED
Object North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
North Canal in Lawrence, Massachusetts is a historic industrial waterway that channeled power and flow to the city’s 19th-century textile mills and factories.
E181593 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: North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts) | Statement: [Great Stone Dam, feeds, North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
Context triple: [Great Stone Dam, feeds, North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)]
  • A. Pawtucket Canal
    The Pawtucket Canal is a historic industrial waterway in Lowell, Massachusetts, that played a key role in powering the city’s 19th-century textile mills and shaping early American industrialization.
  • B. Neponset River Greenway
    Neponset River Greenway is a multi-use recreational trail and green corridor along the Neponset River in the Boston area, offering walking, biking, and scenic waterfront access.
  • C. Cape Cod Canal
    The Cape Cod Canal is a man-made waterway in Massachusetts that cuts across the base of the Cape Cod peninsula, providing a shortcut between Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay for maritime traffic.
  • D. Alewife Greenway
    Alewife Greenway is a multi-use recreational path and green corridor in the Boston area that provides walking and biking access through natural and urban landscapes.
  • E. Lewes and Rehoboth Canal
    The Lewes and Rehoboth Canal is a man-made waterway in Sussex County, Delaware, that connects the Delaware Bay to Rehoboth Bay and forms part of the Intracoastal Waterway.
  • 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: North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
Triple: [Great Stone Dam, feeds, North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)]
Generated description
North Canal in Lawrence, Massachusetts is a historic industrial waterway that channeled power and flow to the city’s 19th-century textile mills and factories.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
Target entity description: North Canal in Lawrence, Massachusetts is a historic industrial waterway that channeled power and flow to the city’s 19th-century textile mills and factories.
  • A. Pawtucket Canal
    The Pawtucket Canal is a historic industrial waterway in Lowell, Massachusetts, that played a key role in powering the city’s 19th-century textile mills and shaping early American industrialization.
  • B. Neponset River Greenway
    Neponset River Greenway is a multi-use recreational trail and green corridor along the Neponset River in the Boston area, offering walking, biking, and scenic waterfront access.
  • C. Cape Cod Canal
    The Cape Cod Canal is a man-made waterway in Massachusetts that cuts across the base of the Cape Cod peninsula, providing a shortcut between Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay for maritime traffic.
  • D. Alewife Greenway
    Alewife Greenway is a multi-use recreational path and green corridor in the Boston area that provides walking and biking access through natural and urban landscapes.
  • E. Lewes and Rehoboth Canal
    The Lewes and Rehoboth Canal is a man-made waterway in Sussex County, Delaware, that connects the Delaware Bay to Rehoboth Bay and forms part of the Intracoastal Waterway.
  • 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_69a885fdcb9c819081ce6f0b8cd477dd completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a9092e46748190b27be7d1aba07dff completed March 5, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad46a848ec819085c82be8eaea2044 completed March 8, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad4841d278819085507528faeaae3e completed March 8, 2026, 9:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad48ff11d881909fd6e9e40d5f1f38 completed March 8, 2026, 10:01 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.