Triple

T831216
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York State Canal System E17968 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Inland Waterway System of the United States
The Inland Waterway System of the United States is an extensive network of interconnected rivers, canals, and coastal routes that supports commercial shipping, recreation, and transportation across much of the country.
E97945 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: Inland Waterway System of the United States | Statement: [New York State Canal System, partOf, Inland Waterway System of the United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Inland Waterway System of the United States
Context triple: [New York State Canal System, partOf, Inland Waterway System of the United States]
  • A. Illinois Waterway system
    The Illinois Waterway system is a network of rivers, canals, and locks in Illinois that provides a vital navigable link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.
  • B. New York State Canal System
    The New York State Canal System is a network of interconnected canals and waterways in New York that evolved from historic routes like the Erie Canal and now supports recreation, tourism, and limited commercial navigation.
  • C. Delaware and Hudson Canal
    The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 19th-century engineering project that transported anthracite coal from Pennsylvania to the Hudson River, playing a key role in early American industrialization and canal-era commerce.
  • D. Delta-Mendota Canal
    The Delta-Mendota Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California’s Central Valley that transports water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to agricultural and urban users in the San Joaquin Valley.
  • E. Erie Canal
    The Erie Canal is a historic man-made waterway in New York State that opened in 1825, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and transforming U.S. commerce and westward expansion.
  • 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: Inland Waterway System of the United States
Triple: [New York State Canal System, partOf, Inland Waterway System of the United States]
Generated description
The Inland Waterway System of the United States is an extensive network of interconnected rivers, canals, and coastal routes that supports commercial shipping, recreation, and transportation across much of the country.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Inland Waterway System of the United States
Target entity description: The Inland Waterway System of the United States is an extensive network of interconnected rivers, canals, and coastal routes that supports commercial shipping, recreation, and transportation across much of the country.
  • A. Illinois Waterway system
    The Illinois Waterway system is a network of rivers, canals, and locks in Illinois that provides a vital navigable link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.
  • B. New York State Canal System
    The New York State Canal System is a network of interconnected canals and waterways in New York that evolved from historic routes like the Erie Canal and now supports recreation, tourism, and limited commercial navigation.
  • C. Delaware and Hudson Canal
    The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 19th-century engineering project that transported anthracite coal from Pennsylvania to the Hudson River, playing a key role in early American industrialization and canal-era commerce.
  • D. Delta-Mendota Canal
    The Delta-Mendota Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California’s Central Valley that transports water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to agricultural and urban users in the San Joaquin Valley.
  • E. Erie Canal
    The Erie Canal is a historic man-made waterway in New York State that opened in 1825, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and transforming U.S. commerce and westward expansion.
  • 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_69a4937c9c188190aaa216f6b466f452 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4abb4be948190ae757df85bdc40e4 completed March 1, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d9991488190808adb29d3ad6273 completed March 3, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7799f87f08190ad393ce92c938030 completed March 4, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a77a2ef9d08190abc60490b4409d79 completed March 4, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.