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)
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.
 E1288470 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: 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.
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: Short Heath Branch (historical)
Triple: [Wyrley and Essington Canal, hasBranch, Short Heath Branch (historical)]
Generated 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.
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 (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_69d8b9efe370819095cd219b143ae727 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e48802bcfc8190a138164d11081ab8 completed April 19, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a02f8452bc08190b25bdc91f3736e86 completed May 12, 2026, 9:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a02f9d944b8819095b6f9371f0f31bc completed May 12, 2026, 9:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a02fac96df48190884a8bc8517fbee7 completed May 12, 2026, 10:02 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:14 a.m.