Triple

T13764837
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mark W. McMenamin E330711 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Paleocontinents
Paleocontinents is a scholarly work that examines the formation, breakup, and reconstruction of ancient continental landmasses throughout Earth’s geological history.
E1059418 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: Paleocontinents | Statement: [Mark W. McMenamin, notableWork, Paleocontinents]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paleocontinents
Context triple: [Mark W. McMenamin, notableWork, Paleocontinents]
  • A. pre-Cambrian supercontinent
    A pre-Cambrian supercontinent is a vast ancient landmass that assembled and broke apart before the Cambrian Period, representing one of Earth’s earliest large-scale continental configurations.
  • B. supercontinent Rodinia
    Rodinia was an ancient supercontinent that assembled during the Proterozoic Eon and existed before the later supercontinent Pangaea, profoundly influencing Earth’s early tectonic and climatic evolution.
  • C. supercontinent Pangaea
    Pangaea was a massive supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, when nearly all of Earth's landmasses were joined together before breaking apart into the continents we know today.
  • D. supercontinent Pannotia
    Supercontinent Pannotia was a short-lived late Proterozoic landmass that assembled near the end of the Precambrian and preceded the formation of the better-known supercontinent Pangaea.
  • E. Gondwana
    Gondwana was a vast ancient supercontinent in the Southern Hemisphere that included present-day South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Arabian Peninsula.
  • 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: Paleocontinents
Triple: [Mark W. McMenamin, notableWork, Paleocontinents]
Generated description
Paleocontinents is a scholarly work that examines the formation, breakup, and reconstruction of ancient continental landmasses throughout Earth’s geological history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paleocontinents
Target entity description: Paleocontinents is a scholarly work that examines the formation, breakup, and reconstruction of ancient continental landmasses throughout Earth’s geological history.
  • A. pre-Cambrian supercontinent
    A pre-Cambrian supercontinent is a vast ancient landmass that assembled and broke apart before the Cambrian Period, representing one of Earth’s earliest large-scale continental configurations.
  • B. supercontinent Rodinia
    Rodinia was an ancient supercontinent that assembled during the Proterozoic Eon and existed before the later supercontinent Pangaea, profoundly influencing Earth’s early tectonic and climatic evolution.
  • C. supercontinent Pangaea
    Pangaea was a massive supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, when nearly all of Earth's landmasses were joined together before breaking apart into the continents we know today.
  • D. supercontinent Pannotia
    Supercontinent Pannotia was a short-lived late Proterozoic landmass that assembled near the end of the Precambrian and preceded the formation of the better-known supercontinent Pangaea.
  • E. Gondwana
    Gondwana was a vast ancient supercontinent in the Southern Hemisphere that included present-day South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Arabian Peninsula.
  • 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_69d81c583b0081909e408a17db517a21 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de022690ac8190bd5410ecc659a2a7 completed April 14, 2026, 9 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7a862e6808190b8fbb27304212058 completed May 3, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7aa2a6370819097206cc0967fe5c5 completed May 3, 2026, 8:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7aaa0e90c8190877490a2b941cb6b completed May 3, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:10 p.m.