Triple

T12854212
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Eastern California Shear Zone E307406 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system
The Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system is a major right-lateral strike-slip fault zone in eastern California that accommodates significant crustal deformation within the Basin and Range Province.
E1007495 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: Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system | Statement: [Eastern California Shear Zone, hasPart, Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system
Context triple: [Eastern California Shear Zone, hasPart, Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Transverse Ranges fault system
    The Transverse Ranges fault system is a complex network of active faults in Southern California that accommodates motion between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates and is responsible for significant seismic activity in the region.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Gloria Fault
    The Gloria Fault is a major transform fault in the North Atlantic Ocean that forms part of the boundary between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates near the Azores region.
  • 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: Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system
Triple: [Eastern California Shear Zone, hasPart, Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system]
Generated description
The Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system is a major right-lateral strike-slip fault zone in eastern California that accommodates significant crustal deformation within the Basin and Range Province.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system
Target entity description: The Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system is a major right-lateral strike-slip fault zone in eastern California that accommodates significant crustal deformation within the Basin and Range Province.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Transverse Ranges fault system
    The Transverse Ranges fault system is a complex network of active faults in Southern California that accommodates motion between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates and is responsible for significant seismic activity in the region.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Gloria Fault
    The Gloria Fault is a major transform fault in the North Atlantic Ocean that forms part of the boundary between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates near the Azores region.
  • 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.