Triple

T5152865
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lancaster Canal E116237 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Preston Branch
Preston Branch is a short offshoot of England’s Lancaster Canal that was built to provide a navigable link to the city of Preston.
 E498576 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: Preston Branch | Statement: [Lancaster Canal, hasPart, Preston Branch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Preston Branch
Context triple: [Lancaster Canal, hasPart, Preston Branch]
  • A. Gladstone Branch
    The Gladstone Branch is a commuter rail line in New Jersey that provides service between Gladstone and Hoboken/New York as part of NJ Transit's Morris & Essex Lines network.
  • B. Beverly Branch
    Beverly Branch is a commuter rail branch line of Metra's Rock Island District serving Chicago's Beverly and Morgan Park neighborhoods.
  • C. Rockport Branch
    Rockport Branch is a rail line segment in Massachusetts that forms the Rockport portion of the MBTA Commuter Rail’s Newburyport/Rockport Line, serving communities on Cape Ann.
  • D. Aurora Branch
    Aurora Branch is a segment of the Illinois Prairie Path, a multi-use recreational trail in northeastern Illinois that extends toward the city of Aurora.
  • E. Northgate Branch
    Northgate Branch is a neighborhood library of the Seattle Public Library system serving the Northgate area of Seattle with books, media, and community services.
  • 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: Preston Branch
Triple: [Lancaster Canal, hasPart, Preston Branch]
Generated description
Preston Branch is a short offshoot of England’s Lancaster Canal that was built to provide a navigable link to the city of Preston.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Preston Branch
Target entity description: Preston Branch is a short offshoot of England’s Lancaster Canal that was built to provide a navigable link to the city of Preston.
  • A. Gladstone Branch
    The Gladstone Branch is a commuter rail line in New Jersey that provides service between Gladstone and Hoboken/New York as part of NJ Transit's Morris & Essex Lines network.
  • B. Beverly Branch
    Beverly Branch is a commuter rail branch line of Metra's Rock Island District serving Chicago's Beverly and Morgan Park neighborhoods.
  • C. Rockport Branch
    Rockport Branch is a rail line segment in Massachusetts that forms the Rockport portion of the MBTA Commuter Rail’s Newburyport/Rockport Line, serving communities on Cape Ann.
  • D. Aurora Branch
    Aurora Branch is a segment of the Illinois Prairie Path, a multi-use recreational trail in northeastern Illinois that extends toward the city of Aurora.
  • E. Northgate Branch
    Northgate Branch is a neighborhood library of the Seattle Public Library system serving the Northgate area of Seattle with books, media, and community services.
  • 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_69bd445d94788190b72e2cc563120995 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd78daab708190a42734a14dddb2fc completed March 20, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bed0099afc8190badca81bd5efb8f6 completed March 21, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bed3f4af288190beec97356b21f990 completed March 21, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bed49625688190972acb1cb0c2a83b completed March 21, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:44 p.m.