Triple

T5548098
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Union Canal E145458 entity
Predicate laterOwner P12936 FINISHED
Object British Waterways
British Waterways was the former public corporation responsible for managing and maintaining the majority of the inland waterways network in Great Britain.
E17015 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: British Waterways | Statement: [Union Canal, laterOwner, British Waterways]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Waterways
Context triple: [Union Canal, laterOwner, British Waterways]
  • A. Canal & River Trust
    Canal & River Trust is a charitable organization responsible for caring for and maintaining much of England and Wales’s historic canal and river network.
  • B. Aire and Calder Navigation
    The Aire and Calder Navigation is a major canalised river and waterway in West Yorkshire, England, historically important for transporting coal and goods between the industrial towns of the Pennines and the Humber estuary.
  • C. Kennet and Avon Canal Trust
    The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust is a charitable organization dedicated to preserving, maintaining, and promoting the historic Kennet and Avon Canal for public benefit and heritage conservation.
  • D. Calder and Hebble Navigation
    Calder and Hebble Navigation is a historic canal in West Yorkshire, England, forming part of the region’s inland waterway network and linking various industrial towns along the River Calder.
  • E. Thames Water
    Thames Water is the United Kingdom’s largest water and wastewater services company, supplying and treating water for millions of customers across London and the Thames Valley.
  • 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: British Waterways
Triple: [Union Canal, laterOwner, British Waterways]
Generated description
British Waterways was the former public corporation responsible for managing and maintaining the majority of the inland waterways network in Great Britain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Waterways
Target entity description: British Waterways was the former public corporation responsible for managing and maintaining the majority of the inland waterways network in Great Britain.
  • A. Canal & River Trust chosen
    Canal & River Trust is a charitable organization responsible for caring for and maintaining much of England and Wales’s historic canal and river network.
  • B. Aire and Calder Navigation
    The Aire and Calder Navigation is a major canalised river and waterway in West Yorkshire, England, historically important for transporting coal and goods between the industrial towns of the Pennines and the Humber estuary.
  • C. Kennet and Avon Canal Trust
    The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust is a charitable organization dedicated to preserving, maintaining, and promoting the historic Kennet and Avon Canal for public benefit and heritage conservation.
  • D. Calder and Hebble Navigation
    Calder and Hebble Navigation is a historic canal in West Yorkshire, England, forming part of the region’s inland waterway network and linking various industrial towns along the River Calder.
  • E. Thames Water
    Thames Water is the United Kingdom’s largest water and wastewater services company, supplying and treating water for millions of customers across London and the Thames Valley.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c008fb879c81909f5bfa56fadc1d46 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01fe0244c8190aeb995f79f22a039 completed March 22, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0282ace308190a714685579f2a789 completed March 22, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0372e86c08190bf586256cab23d22 completed March 22, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c038e5dccc8190a5e1ec45712c00a3 completed March 22, 2026, 6:45 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:35 p.m.