Triple

T3679307
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Negombo E78071 entity
Predicate hasStructure P35 FINISHED
Object Hamilton Canal
Hamilton Canal is a historic Dutch-era waterway in Sri Lanka that links the coastal town of Negombo with other parts of the western canal network, once used for transporting goods and people.
E390847 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: Hamilton Canal | Statement: [Negombo, hasStructure, Hamilton Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hamilton Canal
Context triple: [Negombo, hasStructure, Hamilton Canal]
  • A. St Helens Canal
    St Helens Canal is a historic industrial waterway in northwest England that once served as an important transport route for coal and other goods during the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. Albert Canal
    The Albert Canal is a major Belgian waterway linking the Meuse River to the port of Antwerp, serving as an important route for inland shipping and freight transport.
  • C. Murray Canal
    The Murray Canal is a man-made waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides a navigable shortcut between the Bay of Quinte and Lake Ontario as part of the Trent–Severn Waterway.
  • D. North Western Canal
    The North Western Canal is a major irrigation channel in Pakistan’s Sindh region that distributes Indus River water from the Sukkur Barrage to surrounding agricultural lands.
  • E. Tavistock Canal
    Tavistock Canal is a historic early 19th-century waterway in Devon, England, built to serve local mines and industry and now valued as a heritage and wildlife site.
  • 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: Hamilton Canal
Triple: [Negombo, hasStructure, Hamilton Canal]
Generated description
Hamilton Canal is a historic Dutch-era waterway in Sri Lanka that links the coastal town of Negombo with other parts of the western canal network, once used for transporting goods and people.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hamilton Canal
Target entity description: Hamilton Canal is a historic Dutch-era waterway in Sri Lanka that links the coastal town of Negombo with other parts of the western canal network, once used for transporting goods and people.
  • A. St Helens Canal
    St Helens Canal is a historic industrial waterway in northwest England that once served as an important transport route for coal and other goods during the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. Albert Canal
    The Albert Canal is a major Belgian waterway linking the Meuse River to the port of Antwerp, serving as an important route for inland shipping and freight transport.
  • C. Murray Canal
    The Murray Canal is a man-made waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides a navigable shortcut between the Bay of Quinte and Lake Ontario as part of the Trent–Severn Waterway.
  • D. North Western Canal
    The North Western Canal is a major irrigation channel in Pakistan’s Sindh region that distributes Indus River water from the Sukkur Barrage to surrounding agricultural lands.
  • E. Tavistock Canal
    Tavistock Canal is a historic early 19th-century waterway in Devon, England, built to serve local mines and industry and now valued as a heritage and wildlife site.
  • 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_69ad85e18c1c8190be8aafb227f39f48 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc49039308190b33082e2b58aa5cf completed March 8, 2026, 6:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4fafdfe108190a808364578d5edd1 completed March 14, 2026, 6:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4fc2c5e9c8190b28250762fe1477d completed March 14, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4fcc395ec8190a781e982b935c2f6 completed March 14, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.