Triple

T2943722
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Port of Thunder Bay E79449 entity
Predicate strategicImportance P428 FINISHED
Object Great Lakes–St. Lawrence grain route E9202 NE FINISHED

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: Great Lakes–St. Lawrence grain route | Statement: [Port of Thunder Bay, strategicImportance, Great Lakes–St. Lawrence grain route]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Great Lakes–St. Lawrence grain route
Context triple: [Port of Thunder Bay, strategicImportance, Great Lakes–St. Lawrence grain route]
  • A. Great Lakes waterway
    The Great Lakes waterway is a system of natural and artificial channels that enables commercial and recreational navigation between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
  • B. Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system chosen
    The Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system is a vast interconnected chain of freshwater lakes and the St. Lawrence River that forms one of the world’s largest inland waterways, linking the interior of North America to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • C. Trent–Severn Waterway
    The Trent–Severn Waterway is a historic Canadian canal system in Ontario that links Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay through a chain of rivers, lakes, and locks, and is now a popular recreational boating route.
  • D. Illinois Waterway system
    The Illinois Waterway system is a network of rivers, canals, and locks in Illinois that provides a vital navigable link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ad8b1089588190b74d9e2505e45762 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad98b0db5081908e84def20a5e4a2d completed March 8, 2026, 3:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b224a78bbc8190b4f4cdb058d5a176 completed March 12, 2026, 2:27 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:56 p.m.