Triple

T27381
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pacific Ocean E547 entity
Predicate connectedVia P845 FINISHED
Object Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a man-made waterway in Panama that dramatically shortens maritime travel by allowing ships to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Central America.
E7762 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: Panama Canal | Statement: [Pacific Ocean, connectedVia, Panama Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Panama Canal
Context triple: [Pacific Ocean, connectedVia, Panama Canal]
  • A. Isthmus of Panama
    The Isthmus of Panama is the narrow strip of land in Central America that links North and South America and separates the Caribbean Sea from the Pacific Ocean.
  • B. Straits of Mackinac
    The Straits of Mackinac are a narrow waterway in the U.S. state of Michigan that connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and separate Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas.
  • C. Erie Canal
    The Erie Canal is a historic man-made waterway in New York State that opened in 1825, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and transforming U.S. commerce and westward expansion.
  • D. Straits of Florida
    The Straits of Florida is the narrow body of water between the Florida Keys and Cuba that connects the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic Ocean and forms a major shipping and ocean current passage.
  • E. Panama
    Panama is a Central American country known for the Panama Canal, a major international shipping route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
  • 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: Panama Canal
Triple: [Pacific Ocean, connectedVia, Panama Canal]
Generated description
The Panama Canal is a man-made waterway in Panama that dramatically shortens maritime travel by allowing ships to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Central America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Panama Canal
Target entity description: The Panama Canal is a man-made waterway in Panama that dramatically shortens maritime travel by allowing ships to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Central America.
  • A. Isthmus of Panama
    The Isthmus of Panama is the narrow strip of land in Central America that links North and South America and separates the Caribbean Sea from the Pacific Ocean.
  • B. Straits of Mackinac
    The Straits of Mackinac are a narrow waterway in the U.S. state of Michigan that connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and separate Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas.
  • C. Erie Canal
    The Erie Canal is a historic man-made waterway in New York State that opened in 1825, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and transforming U.S. commerce and westward expansion.
  • D. Straits of Florida
    The Straits of Florida is the narrow body of water between the Florida Keys and Cuba that connects the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic Ocean and forms a major shipping and ocean current passage.
  • E. Panama
    Panama is a Central American country known for the Panama Canal, a major international shipping route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
  • 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_69a243b4ac2c8190b93c303df797b7b2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2481f9eac819093d9a950eb1ab109 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2623969188190814f662922953e39 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2630ebfb08190a75f93b74424005b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2636c35e48190b4e6260a95f55799 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:34 a.m.