Triple

T1680409
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Transport Act 1947 E36324 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object British Waterways
British Waterways was the public corporation responsible for managing and maintaining most of the inland waterways and canals in Great Britain until its functions were transferred to successor bodies in the 21st century.
E17015 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: British Waterways | Statement: [Transport Act 1947, relatedTo, British Waterways]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Waterways
Context triple: [Transport Act 1947, relatedTo, British Waterways]
  • A. Canal & River Trust
    Canal & River Trust is a charitable organization responsible for caring for and maintaining much of England and Wales’s historic canal and river network.
  • B. Aire and Calder Navigation
    The Aire and Calder Navigation is a major canalised river and waterway in West Yorkshire, England, historically important for transporting coal and goods between the industrial towns of the Pennines and the Humber estuary.
  • C. Calder and Hebble Navigation
    Calder and Hebble Navigation is a historic canal in West Yorkshire, England, forming part of the region’s inland waterway network and linking various industrial towns along the River Calder.
  • D. Thames Water
    Thames Water is the United Kingdom’s largest water and wastewater services company, supplying and treating water for millions of customers across London and the Thames Valley.
  • E. Grand Union Canal
    The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
  • 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: British Waterways
Triple: [Transport Act 1947, relatedTo, British Waterways]
Generated description
British Waterways was the public corporation responsible for managing and maintaining most of the inland waterways and canals in Great Britain until its functions were transferred to successor bodies in the 21st century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Waterways
Target entity description: British Waterways was the public corporation responsible for managing and maintaining most of the inland waterways and canals in Great Britain until its functions were transferred to successor bodies in the 21st century.
  • A. Canal & River Trust chosen
    Canal & River Trust is a charitable organization responsible for caring for and maintaining much of England and Wales’s historic canal and river network.
  • B. Aire and Calder Navigation
    The Aire and Calder Navigation is a major canalised river and waterway in West Yorkshire, England, historically important for transporting coal and goods between the industrial towns of the Pennines and the Humber estuary.
  • C. Calder and Hebble Navigation
    Calder and Hebble Navigation is a historic canal in West Yorkshire, England, forming part of the region’s inland waterway network and linking various industrial towns along the River Calder.
  • D. Thames Water
    Thames Water is the United Kingdom’s largest water and wastewater services company, supplying and treating water for millions of customers across London and the Thames Valley.
  • E. Grand Union Canal
    The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a886139ed081909af0940aa9313512 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa626208088190be60eae294cea294 completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad71bce0d48190ba3762fabd0bcdd6 completed March 8, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad724651e08190a77519ad21c64b23 completed March 8, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad72c405b081909bff8bf621e9baec completed March 8, 2026, 12:59 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.