Triple

T318598
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Panama Canal E7762 entity
Predicate passesThrough P225 FINISHED
Object Panama Canal Zone (historical)
The Panama Canal Zone was a former U.S.-controlled territory in Panama that encompassed the land surrounding the Panama Canal and served as a strategic corridor for international maritime trade.
E41165 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 Zone (historical) | Statement: [Panama Canal, passesThrough, Panama Canal Zone (historical)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Panama Canal Zone (historical)
Context triple: [Panama Canal, passesThrough, Panama Canal Zone (historical)]
  • A. Río Muni
    Río Muni is the mainland region of Equatorial Guinea, located on the west coast of Central Africa and forming the country’s largest and most populous territory.
  • B. Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island and unincorporated U.S. territory known for its Spanish-Caribbean culture, tropical climate, and status as a popular tourist destination.
  • C. Yaviza, Panama
    Yaviza, Panama is a small town in the Darién Province known as the southern terminus of the Pan-American Highway before the undeveloped Darién Gap.
  • D. Panama
    Panama is a Central American country known for the Panama Canal, a major international shipping route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
  • E. U.S. Caribbean territories
    The U.S. Caribbean territories are American island jurisdictions in the Caribbean Sea, such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, that extend U.S. political, economic, and maritime presence into the region.
  • 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 Zone (historical)
Triple: [Panama Canal, passesThrough, Panama Canal Zone (historical)]
Generated description
The Panama Canal Zone was a former U.S.-controlled territory in Panama that encompassed the land surrounding the Panama Canal and served as a strategic corridor for international maritime trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Panama Canal Zone (historical)
Target entity description: The Panama Canal Zone was a former U.S.-controlled territory in Panama that encompassed the land surrounding the Panama Canal and served as a strategic corridor for international maritime trade.
  • A. Río Muni
    Río Muni is the mainland region of Equatorial Guinea, located on the west coast of Central Africa and forming the country’s largest and most populous territory.
  • B. Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island and unincorporated U.S. territory known for its Spanish-Caribbean culture, tropical climate, and status as a popular tourist destination.
  • C. Yaviza, Panama
    Yaviza, Panama is a small town in the Darién Province known as the southern terminus of the Pan-American Highway before the undeveloped Darién Gap.
  • D. Panama
    Panama is a Central American country known for the Panama Canal, a major international shipping route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
  • E. U.S. Caribbean territories
    The U.S. Caribbean territories are American island jurisdictions in the Caribbean Sea, such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, that extend U.S. political, economic, and maritime presence into the region.
  • 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_69a2e7e7af7881908890039d6be4e9b8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ea67b7588190be394a56498758b6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3c8ba3304819099db7b60f2c83c8b completed March 1, 2026, 5:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3c93ce2308190b2df5c939691a2ce completed March 1, 2026, 5:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3ca020b7081909b54e311c173ef21 completed March 1, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.