Triple

T795694
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Rennie the Elder E17014 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a historic English waterway linking the River Thames at Reading with the River Avon at Bath, renowned for its 19th-century engineering and scenic cruising route.
E114860 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: Kennet and Avon Canal | Statement: [John Rennie the Elder, notableWork, Kennet and Avon Canal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kennet and Avon Canal
Context triple: [John Rennie the Elder, notableWork, Kennet and Avon Canal]
  • A. Grand Union Canal
    The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
  • B. Bridgewater Canal
    The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
  • C. Gloucester and Sharpness Canal
    The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal is a historic ship canal in Gloucestershire, England, built to provide a safer, more direct navigation route bypassing a hazardous stretch of the River Severn.
  • D. Trent and Mersey Canal
    The Trent and Mersey Canal is a historic English waterway running across the Midlands, built in the 18th century to link the River Trent with the River Mersey and support industrial transport, particularly for pottery and other goods.
  • E. Ashton Canal
    The Ashton Canal is a historic narrow canal in Greater Manchester, England, that links central Manchester to the Peak Forest Canal and forms part of the region’s Pennine waterway network.
  • 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: Kennet and Avon Canal
Triple: [John Rennie the Elder, notableWork, Kennet and Avon Canal]
Generated description
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a historic English waterway linking the River Thames at Reading with the River Avon at Bath, renowned for its 19th-century engineering and scenic cruising route.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kennet and Avon Canal
Target entity description: The Kennet and Avon Canal is a historic English waterway linking the River Thames at Reading with the River Avon at Bath, renowned for its 19th-century engineering and scenic cruising route.
  • A. Grand Union Canal
    The Grand Union Canal is a major English waterway that links London to Birmingham, forming the longest canal in the UK and serving both leisure boating and historical industrial transport.
  • B. Bridgewater Canal
    The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
  • C. Gloucester and Sharpness Canal
    The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal is a historic ship canal in Gloucestershire, England, built to provide a safer, more direct navigation route bypassing a hazardous stretch of the River Severn.
  • D. Trent and Mersey Canal
    The Trent and Mersey Canal is a historic English waterway running across the Midlands, built in the 18th century to link the River Trent with the River Mersey and support industrial transport, particularly for pottery and other goods.
  • E. Ashton Canal
    The Ashton Canal is a historic narrow canal in Greater Manchester, England, that links central Manchester to the Peak Forest Canal and forms part of the region’s Pennine waterway network.
  • 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_69a49378b9c48190adbf5f62e5b7aca1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a7b04cd8819092e2fd7ba4df8672 completed March 1, 2026, 8:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac16f56bc0819094085d61f1f29f70 completed March 7, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac1841a6188190bca3ab98eb169d47 completed March 7, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac18afee148190ac7431327588c31b completed March 7, 2026, 12:23 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.