Triple

T17804492

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Wyrley and Essington Canal	`E444518`	entity
Predicate	hasBranch	`P35`	FINISHED
Object	Short Heath Branch (historical)	`—`	NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Short Heath Branch (historical) | Statement: [Wyrley and Essington Canal, hasBranch, Short Heath Branch (historical)]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Short Heath Branch (historical)
Context triple: [Wyrley and Essington Canal, hasBranch, Short Heath Branch (historical)]

A. Hawkhurst Branch
The Hawkhurst Branch was a rural railway line in Kent and East Sussex, England, serving small communities and agricultural areas before its mid-20th-century closure.
B. Cockfosters branch
The Cockfosters branch is the eastern arm of the London Underground’s Piccadilly line, running from central London out to its terminus at Cockfosters in north London.
C. Henley Branch Line
The Henley Branch Line is a short railway branch in Oxfordshire, England, connecting the town of Henley-on-Thames to the Great Western Main Line.
D. Macmerry Branch
Macmerry Branch was a former railway line in East Lothian, Scotland, that served local communities including Pencaitland.
E. Ockendon branch
The Ockendon branch is a suburban railway line in Essex, England, forming part of the London, Tilbury and Southend route and serving communities including Ockendon.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Short Heath Branch (historical)
Target entity description: Short Heath Branch (historical) was a former side branch of the Wyrley and Essington Canal in the English Midlands, built to serve local industry and later abandoned.

A. Hawkhurst Branch
The Hawkhurst Branch was a rural railway line in Kent and East Sussex, England, serving small communities and agricultural areas before its mid-20th-century closure.
B. Cockfosters branch
The Cockfosters branch is the eastern arm of the London Underground’s Piccadilly line, running from central London out to its terminus at Cockfosters in north London.
C. Henley Branch Line
The Henley Branch Line is a short railway branch in Oxfordshire, England, connecting the town of Henley-on-Thames to the Great Western Main Line.
D. Macmerry Branch
Macmerry Branch was a former railway line in East Lothian, Scotland, that served local communities including Pencaitland.
E. Ockendon branch
The Ockendon branch is a suburban railway line in Essex, England, forming part of the London, Tilbury and Southend route and serving communities including Ockendon.
F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d8b9efe370819095cd219b143ae727`	completed	April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e48802bcfc8190a138164d11081ab8`	completed	April 19, 2026, 7:45 a.m.

Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:14 a.m.