Triple

T11591064
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dakota Formation E274880 entity
Predicate underlies P4501 FINISHED
Object Graneros Shale
Graneros Shale is a Cretaceous-age marine shale formation in the central United States, notable for recording the early transgression of the Western Interior Seaway and for its fossil-rich, fine-grained sediments.
E934193 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: Graneros Shale | Statement: [Dakota Formation, underlies, Graneros Shale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Graneros Shale
Context triple: [Dakota Formation, underlies, Graneros Shale]
  • A. Spraberry Formation
    The Spraberry Formation is a major oil-bearing geologic unit in West Texas, renowned as one of the most prolific tight oil reservoirs within the Permian Basin.
  • B. Claron Formation
    The Claron Formation is a geologic rock unit of colorful limestones and mudstones best known for forming the striking hoodoos and cliffs of Bryce Canyon and other parts of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah.
  • C. Marcellus Shale
    Marcellus Shale is a vast natural gas–rich sedimentary rock formation underlying much of the Appalachian Basin in the eastern United States, notably Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and New York.
  • D. Curtis Formation
    The Curtis Formation is a Middle Jurassic geologic unit in the western United States, characterized mainly by marine sandstones and siltstones that record shallow sea environments.
  • E. Diablo Formation
    The Diablo Formation is a geologic rock unit in California known as a significant petroleum-bearing reservoir within fields such as the Belridge Oil Field.
  • 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: Graneros Shale
Triple: [Dakota Formation, underlies, Graneros Shale]
Generated description
Graneros Shale is a Cretaceous-age marine shale formation in the central United States, notable for recording the early transgression of the Western Interior Seaway and for its fossil-rich, fine-grained sediments.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Graneros Shale
Target entity description: Graneros Shale is a Cretaceous-age marine shale formation in the central United States, notable for recording the early transgression of the Western Interior Seaway and for its fossil-rich, fine-grained sediments.
  • A. Spraberry Formation
    The Spraberry Formation is a major oil-bearing geologic unit in West Texas, renowned as one of the most prolific tight oil reservoirs within the Permian Basin.
  • B. Claron Formation
    The Claron Formation is a geologic rock unit of colorful limestones and mudstones best known for forming the striking hoodoos and cliffs of Bryce Canyon and other parts of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah.
  • C. Marcellus Shale
    Marcellus Shale is a vast natural gas–rich sedimentary rock formation underlying much of the Appalachian Basin in the eastern United States, notably Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and New York.
  • D. Curtis Formation
    The Curtis Formation is a Middle Jurassic geologic unit in the western United States, characterized mainly by marine sandstones and siltstones that record shallow sea environments.
  • E. Diablo Formation
    The Diablo Formation is a geologic rock unit in California known as a significant petroleum-bearing reservoir within fields such as the Belridge Oil Field.
  • 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_69d6aae6b14c81908dc5a74bad7591f9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d894643ae48190837502b713f5b9c6 completed April 10, 2026, 6:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e714634b308190bdcb761f8b6712e7 completed April 21, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e720fc0f38819083bd15169f2ce4bb completed April 21, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e72353c19c8190b7a579e9af823872 completed April 21, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:38 p.m.