Triple

T11766037
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wellington Formation E279783 entity
Predicate underlies P4501 FINISHED
Object Ninnescah Shale
Ninnescah Shale is a geologic rock unit known for its shale deposits, typically associated with Permian-age sedimentary sequences in the central United States.
E945417 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: Ninnescah Shale | Statement: [Wellington Formation, underlies, Ninnescah Shale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ninnescah Shale
Context triple: [Wellington Formation, underlies, Ninnescah Shale]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Thermopolis Shale
    Thermopolis Shale is a Cretaceous-age marine shale formation in the Western Interior of North America, notable for its dark, fossil-bearing mudstones deposited in the Western Interior Seaway.
  • 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. 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.
  • E. Sundance Formation
    The Sundance Formation is a Middle to Late Jurassic marine sedimentary rock unit in the western United States, known for its shallow sea deposits that underlie the dinosaur-rich Morrison Formation.
  • 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: Ninnescah Shale
Triple: [Wellington Formation, underlies, Ninnescah Shale]
Generated description
Ninnescah Shale is a geologic rock unit known for its shale deposits, typically associated with Permian-age sedimentary sequences in the central United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ninnescah Shale
Target entity description: Ninnescah Shale is a geologic rock unit known for its shale deposits, typically associated with Permian-age sedimentary sequences in the central United States.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Thermopolis Shale
    Thermopolis Shale is a Cretaceous-age marine shale formation in the Western Interior of North America, notable for its dark, fossil-bearing mudstones deposited in the Western Interior Seaway.
  • 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. 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.
  • E. Sundance Formation
    The Sundance Formation is a Middle to Late Jurassic marine sedimentary rock unit in the western United States, known for its shallow sea deposits that underlie the dinosaur-rich Morrison Formation.
  • 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_69d6ab01d2688190ad8ed6bda487eaa5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a525948081908af62cc5d4c7c482 completed April 10, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f09053a9b08190983e15f2da3d3889 completed April 28, 2026, 10:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f0bd36673881908530b68e496c3d2e completed April 28, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f0eec1f5d081908624fe2a93995fe5 completed April 28, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:41 p.m.