Triple
T20203710
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Transport in the West Midlands |
E493290
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasCanal |
P35
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Worcester and Birmingham Canal |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Worcester and Birmingham Canal | Statement: [Transport in the West Midlands, hasCanal, Worcester and Birmingham Canal]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Worcester and Birmingham Canal Context triple: [Transport in the West Midlands, hasCanal, Worcester and Birmingham Canal]
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A.
Worcester and Birmingham Canal
chosen
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal is an English inland waterway linking the city of Worcester to Birmingham, historically important for industrial transport and now popular for leisure boating.
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B.
Warwick and Birmingham Canal
The Warwick and Birmingham Canal was a historic English waterway linking Birmingham to Warwick, later incorporated into the Grand Union Canal network.
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C.
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is an 18th-century English inland waterway that forms a key link between the River Severn and the Midlands canal network.
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D.
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal that forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, linking Birmingham with Fazeley and connecting to wider Midlands waterways.
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E.
Birmingham Canal
The Birmingham Canal is a historic waterway in England that formed the core of Birmingham’s industrial canal network, linking the city to major trade routes during the Industrial Revolution.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69da6269614c8190bb40475d9d477358 |
completed | April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e66d8f90108190b72e37c0056de0f8 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 6:16 p.m. |
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:38 p.m.