Triple

T7832024
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts) E181593 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object South Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
South Canal in Lawrence, Massachusetts is a historic industrial waterway that helped power the city’s 19th-century textile mills and shaped its mill district layout.
E699294 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: South Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts) | Statement: [North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts), relatedTo, South Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: South Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
Context triple: [North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts), relatedTo, South Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)]
  • A. North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
    North Canal in Lawrence, Massachusetts is a historic industrial waterway that channeled power and flow to the city’s 19th-century textile mills and factories.
  • B. Pawtucket Canal
    The Pawtucket Canal is a historic industrial waterway in Lowell, Massachusetts, that played a key role in powering the city’s 19th-century textile mills and shaping early American industrialization.
  • C. North Canal
    North Canal is an irrigation waterway that forms part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Klamath Project, delivering diverted water to agricultural lands in the Klamath Basin.
  • D. The Stone Canal
    The Stone Canal is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that explores artificial intelligence, political ideology, and posthuman society across intertwined timelines.
  • E. Barkley Canal
    Barkley Canal is a man-made waterway in western Kentucky that links Kentucky Lake with Lake Barkley, enabling navigation between the two reservoirs.
  • 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: South Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
Triple: [North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts), relatedTo, South Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)]
Generated description
South Canal in Lawrence, Massachusetts is a historic industrial waterway that helped power the city’s 19th-century textile mills and shaped its mill district layout.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: South Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
Target entity description: South Canal in Lawrence, Massachusetts is a historic industrial waterway that helped power the city’s 19th-century textile mills and shaped its mill district layout.
  • A. North Canal (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
    North Canal in Lawrence, Massachusetts is a historic industrial waterway that channeled power and flow to the city’s 19th-century textile mills and factories.
  • B. Pawtucket Canal
    The Pawtucket Canal is a historic industrial waterway in Lowell, Massachusetts, that played a key role in powering the city’s 19th-century textile mills and shaping early American industrialization.
  • C. North Canal
    North Canal is an irrigation waterway that forms part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Klamath Project, delivering diverted water to agricultural lands in the Klamath Basin.
  • D. The Stone Canal
    The Stone Canal is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that explores artificial intelligence, political ideology, and posthuman society across intertwined timelines.
  • E. Barkley Canal
    Barkley Canal is a man-made waterway in western Kentucky that links Kentucky Lake with Lake Barkley, enabling navigation between the two reservoirs.
  • 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_69ca8284a25c8190a1a20afad30da792 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb0648bb308190a34fbcd81ff6fda2 completed March 30, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5a906b908190a204779950555edc completed March 31, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb762ce6208190a24438e26ae83785 completed March 31, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cbb615dc248190b57b4fc7c430517f completed March 31, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:44 p.m.