Triple

T12854220
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Eastern California Shear Zone E307406 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Blackwater fault zone
The Blackwater fault zone is a major right-lateral strike-slip fault system in the Mojave Desert of eastern California that accommodates part of the region’s active tectonic shear between the Pacific and North American plates.
E1017021 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: Blackwater fault zone | Statement: [Eastern California Shear Zone, hasPart, Blackwater fault zone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blackwater fault zone
Context triple: [Eastern California Shear Zone, hasPart, Blackwater fault zone]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Septentrional-Oriente fault zone
    The Septentrional-Oriente fault zone is a major strike-slip fault system in the northern Caribbean region that accommodates tectonic motion between the North American and Caribbean plates and is a significant source of regional earthquakes.
  • C. Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone
    The Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone is a major strike-slip fault system in southern Chile that controls much of the region’s tectonic activity, volcanism, and seismicity along the Andean margin.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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: Blackwater fault zone
Triple: [Eastern California Shear Zone, hasPart, Blackwater fault zone]
Generated description
The Blackwater fault zone is a major right-lateral strike-slip fault system in the Mojave Desert of eastern California that accommodates part of the region’s active tectonic shear between the Pacific and North American plates.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blackwater fault zone
Target entity description: The Blackwater fault zone is a major right-lateral strike-slip fault system in the Mojave Desert of eastern California that accommodates part of the region’s active tectonic shear between the Pacific and North American plates.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Septentrional-Oriente fault zone
    The Septentrional-Oriente fault zone is a major strike-slip fault system in the northern Caribbean region that accommodates tectonic motion between the North American and Caribbean plates and is a significant source of regional earthquakes.
  • C. Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone
    The Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone is a major strike-slip fault system in southern Chile that controls much of the region’s tectonic activity, volcanism, and seismicity along the Andean margin.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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_69f6cbb93c688190910ffb6bc6fbef3f completed May 3, 2026, 4:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6cd0d21e08190855dcbee000fc25d completed May 3, 2026, 4:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6ce6b220c8190b1f49a9b2bfce692 completed May 3, 2026, 4:26 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:37 p.m.