Triple

T12703984
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lake Bonneville E303531 entity
Predicate drainageEvent P39938 FINISHED
Object Bonneville flood
The Bonneville flood was a massive prehistoric outburst flood that occurred when ancient Lake Bonneville catastrophically drained, reshaping much of the Snake River Plain and surrounding landscapes in the northwestern United States.
E997827 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Bonneville flood | Statement: [Lake Bonneville, drainageEvent, Bonneville flood]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bonneville flood
Context triple: [Lake Bonneville, drainageEvent, Bonneville flood]
  • A. Missoula floods
    The Missoula floods were a series of cataclysmic Ice Age glacial outburst floods that repeatedly swept across the Pacific Northwest, dramatically reshaping the landscape of what is now Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
  • B. Great Sioux City Flood of 1892
    The Great Sioux City Flood of 1892 was a devastating late-19th-century flood that inundated Sioux City, Iowa, causing widespread destruction and loss of life along the Missouri River.
  • C. 1967 Fairbanks flood
    The 1967 Fairbanks flood was a devastating inundation of Fairbanks, Alaska, that caused widespread damage and led to major changes in the region’s flood control and urban planning.
  • D. Vanport flood of 1948
    The Vanport flood of 1948 was a catastrophic Columbia River flood that destroyed the wartime housing city of Vanport, Oregon, killing at least 15 people and displacing tens of thousands, many of them Black shipyard workers and their families.
  • E. The Great Flood of 1852
    The Great Flood of 1852 was a catastrophic inundation of the Murrumbidgee River that devastated the Australian town of Gundagai, causing extensive loss of life and prompting the town’s relocation to higher ground.
  • 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: Bonneville flood
Triple: [Lake Bonneville, drainageEvent, Bonneville flood]
Generated description
The Bonneville flood was a massive prehistoric outburst flood that occurred when ancient Lake Bonneville catastrophically drained, reshaping much of the Snake River Plain and surrounding landscapes in the northwestern United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bonneville flood
Target entity description: The Bonneville flood was a massive prehistoric outburst flood that occurred when ancient Lake Bonneville catastrophically drained, reshaping much of the Snake River Plain and surrounding landscapes in the northwestern United States.
  • A. Missoula floods
    The Missoula floods were a series of cataclysmic Ice Age glacial outburst floods that repeatedly swept across the Pacific Northwest, dramatically reshaping the landscape of what is now Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
  • B. Great Sioux City Flood of 1892
    The Great Sioux City Flood of 1892 was a devastating late-19th-century flood that inundated Sioux City, Iowa, causing widespread destruction and loss of life along the Missouri River.
  • C. 1967 Fairbanks flood
    The 1967 Fairbanks flood was a devastating inundation of Fairbanks, Alaska, that caused widespread damage and led to major changes in the region’s flood control and urban planning.
  • D. Vanport flood of 1948
    The Vanport flood of 1948 was a catastrophic Columbia River flood that destroyed the wartime housing city of Vanport, Oregon, killing at least 15 people and displacing tens of thousands, many of them Black shipyard workers and their families.
  • E. The Great Flood of 1852
    The Great Flood of 1852 was a catastrophic inundation of the Murrumbidgee River that devastated the Australian town of Gundagai, causing extensive loss of life and prompting the town’s relocation to higher ground.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: drainageEvent
Context triple: [Lake Bonneville, drainageEvent, Bonneville flood]
  • A. drainageProject
    Indicates that an entity is involved in or designated as a project focused on constructing, improving, or managing systems for removing excess surface or groundwater from an area.
  • B. dateOfMajorDrainageEvent
    Indicates the specific date on which a significant drainage-related event (such as major flooding, diversion, or alteration of water flow) occurred.
  • C. floodEvent chosen
    Indicates an occurrence of a flooding event affecting a location, time period, or set of impacted entities.
  • D. drainageOutlet
    Indicates that one entity serves as the point where fluids or runoff are discharged or exit from another entity.
  • E. drainageInfluencedBy
    Indicates that the pattern, direction, or effectiveness of drainage is affected or controlled by another factor or entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69d7bdef90d48190b46b88270e780946 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d962a32c6481908ddaddae4ea267bf completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f671b4832c8190abc17f5f33b3552a completed May 2, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f67286f1b8819081db3da2f5c16daf completed May 2, 2026, 9:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6732ea7408190a95f0a5f983dfdb7 completed May 2, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69d960be63f081908a5ef5ef17a311bf completed April 10, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:23 p.m.