Triple

T12854211
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Eastern California Shear Zone E307406 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Owens Valley fault zone
The Owens Valley fault zone is a major active strike-slip fault system in eastern California that accommodates significant crustal movement and has produced large historical earthquakes.
E1007494 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: Owens Valley fault zone | Statement: [Eastern California Shear Zone, hasPart, Owens Valley fault zone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Owens Valley fault zone
Context triple: [Eastern California Shear Zone, hasPart, Owens Valley fault zone]
  • A. Elsinore Fault Zone
    The Elsinore Fault Zone is a major right-lateral strike-slip fault system in Southern California that accommodates part of the motion between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates and poses significant seismic hazard to the region.
  • B. Garlock Fault
    The Garlock Fault is a major left-lateral strike-slip fault in southern California that forms the northern boundary of the Mojave Desert and plays a key role in the region’s complex tectonic deformation.
  • C. Heezen Fault Zone
    The Heezen Fault Zone is a major undersea geological fault system named in honor of American oceanographer Bruce C. Heezen, recognized for his pioneering work in mapping the ocean floor.
  • D. Greendale Fault
    The Greendale Fault is a previously unrecognized tectonic fault in New Zealand’s Canterbury region that ruptured during the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, producing significant ground deformation across the rural landscape.
  • E. Ridgecrest fault system
    The Ridgecrest fault system is a network of active strike-slip faults in the eastern California desert that produced the powerful 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence.
  • 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: Owens Valley fault zone
Triple: [Eastern California Shear Zone, hasPart, Owens Valley fault zone]
Generated description
The Owens Valley fault zone is a major active strike-slip fault system in eastern California that accommodates significant crustal movement and has produced large historical earthquakes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Owens Valley fault zone
Target entity description: The Owens Valley fault zone is a major active strike-slip fault system in eastern California that accommodates significant crustal movement and has produced large historical earthquakes.
  • A. Elsinore Fault Zone
    The Elsinore Fault Zone is a major right-lateral strike-slip fault system in Southern California that accommodates part of the motion between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates and poses significant seismic hazard to the region.
  • B. Garlock Fault
    The Garlock Fault is a major left-lateral strike-slip fault in southern California that forms the northern boundary of the Mojave Desert and plays a key role in the region’s complex tectonic deformation.
  • C. Heezen Fault Zone
    The Heezen Fault Zone is a major undersea geological fault system named in honor of American oceanographer Bruce C. Heezen, recognized for his pioneering work in mapping the ocean floor.
  • D. Greendale Fault
    The Greendale Fault is a previously unrecognized tectonic fault in New Zealand’s Canterbury region that ruptured during the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, producing significant ground deformation across the rural landscape.
  • E. Ridgecrest fault system
    The Ridgecrest fault system is a network of active strike-slip faults in the eastern California desert that produced the powerful 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence.
  • 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_69d7bdf5e7cc8190be357278bc5ba3bb completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97021df7481909cd42a0f72040aa5 completed April 10, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f69ba79918819093e047ce22191923 completed May 3, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f69c8469548190b05d8fa010e0ca13 completed May 3, 2026, 12:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f69d4ef7988190890f8a62280aa673 completed May 3, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:37 p.m.