Triple

T259192
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bridgewater Canal E5502 entity
Predicate connectsTo P845 FINISHED
Object Trent and Mersey Canal
The Trent and Mersey Canal is a historic English waterway running across the Midlands, built in the 18th century to link the River Trent with the River Mersey and support industrial transport, particularly for pottery and other goods.
E34788 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: Trent and Mersey Canal | Statement: [Bridgewater Canal, connectsTo, Trent and Mersey Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trent and Mersey Canal
Context triple: [Bridgewater Canal, connectsTo, Trent and Mersey Canal]
  • A. Bridgewater Canal
    The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
  • B. Leeds and Liverpool Canal
    The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a major historic waterway in Northern England that links the cities of Leeds and Liverpool, passing through Lancashire and serving as an important route for industrial transport during the Industrial Revolution.
  • C. Rochdale Canal
    The Rochdale Canal is a historic English waterway linking Manchester with Sowerby Bridge, notable for its series of locks and role in the region’s industrial development.
  • D. Manchester Ship Canal
    The Manchester Ship Canal is a major 19th-century inland waterway in northwest England that enabled ocean-going ships to reach the industrial city of Manchester from the Irish Sea.
  • E. River Cam
    The River Cam is a picturesque river in eastern England best known for flowing through the historic city and university of Cambridge, where it is famous for punting and scenic college views.
  • 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: Trent and Mersey Canal
Triple: [Bridgewater Canal, connectsTo, Trent and Mersey Canal]
Generated description
The Trent and Mersey Canal is a historic English waterway running across the Midlands, built in the 18th century to link the River Trent with the River Mersey and support industrial transport, particularly for pottery and other goods.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trent and Mersey Canal
Target entity description: The Trent and Mersey Canal is a historic English waterway running across the Midlands, built in the 18th century to link the River Trent with the River Mersey and support industrial transport, particularly for pottery and other goods.
  • A. Bridgewater Canal
    The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
  • B. Leeds and Liverpool Canal
    The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a major historic waterway in Northern England that links the cities of Leeds and Liverpool, passing through Lancashire and serving as an important route for industrial transport during the Industrial Revolution.
  • C. Rochdale Canal
    The Rochdale Canal is a historic English waterway linking Manchester with Sowerby Bridge, notable for its series of locks and role in the region’s industrial development.
  • D. Manchester Ship Canal
    The Manchester Ship Canal is a major 19th-century inland waterway in northwest England that enabled ocean-going ships to reach the industrial city of Manchester from the Irish Sea.
  • E. River Cam
    The River Cam is a picturesque river in eastern England best known for flowing through the historic city and university of Cambridge, where it is famous for punting and scenic college views.
  • 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_69a2580a64ac8190ad76e34bb0715b5e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25d71a10c8190894c86e7a67c5974 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a38b8ca1f08190a13733c03b9161f9 completed March 1, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a38bcc7d3c8190a2a1216f58631c5c completed March 1, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a38c56810c8190922ad62014393734 completed March 1, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.