Triple

T1416722
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject North Dakota E31933 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Bakken formation region
The Bakken formation region is a major oil- and gas-rich shale play in the Williston Basin of the northern United States and southern Canada, known for its significant role in the North American energy boom.
E161370 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: Bakken formation region | Statement: [North Dakota, partOf, Bakken formation region]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bakken formation region
Context triple: [North Dakota, partOf, Bakken formation region]
  • A. Montrose Basin
    Montrose Basin is a large tidal estuary and wildlife reserve on Scotland’s east coast, renowned for its rich birdlife and coastal habitats.
  • B. Evolution Basin
    Evolution Basin is a high-elevation glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for its chain of alpine lakes, dramatic granite peaks, and location along the John Muir Trail.
  • C. Belridge Oil Field
    Belridge Oil Field is one of California’s largest and most productive oil fields, located in the San Joaquin Valley and known for its extensive heavy oil and enhanced recovery operations.
  • D. Amadeus Basin geological region
    The Amadeus Basin geological region is a vast sedimentary basin in central Australia known for its ancient rock formations and significant natural landmarks, including Uluru.
  • E. Canada Basin
    The Canada Basin is a deep, remote submarine basin in the Arctic Ocean, located north of Alaska and Canada, known for its extreme depths, perennial sea ice cover, and importance to polar oceanographic research.
  • 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: Bakken formation region
Triple: [North Dakota, partOf, Bakken formation region]
Generated description
The Bakken formation region is a major oil- and gas-rich shale play in the Williston Basin of the northern United States and southern Canada, known for its significant role in the North American energy boom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bakken formation region
Target entity description: The Bakken formation region is a major oil- and gas-rich shale play in the Williston Basin of the northern United States and southern Canada, known for its significant role in the North American energy boom.
  • A. Montrose Basin
    Montrose Basin is a large tidal estuary and wildlife reserve on Scotland’s east coast, renowned for its rich birdlife and coastal habitats.
  • B. Evolution Basin
    Evolution Basin is a high-elevation glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for its chain of alpine lakes, dramatic granite peaks, and location along the John Muir Trail.
  • C. Belridge Oil Field
    Belridge Oil Field is one of California’s largest and most productive oil fields, located in the San Joaquin Valley and known for its extensive heavy oil and enhanced recovery operations.
  • D. Amadeus Basin geological region
    The Amadeus Basin geological region is a vast sedimentary basin in central Australia known for its ancient rock formations and significant natural landmarks, including Uluru.
  • E. Canada Basin
    The Canada Basin is a deep, remote submarine basin in the Arctic Ocean, located north of Alaska and Canada, known for its extreme depths, perennial sea ice cover, and importance to polar oceanographic research.
  • 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_69a49919a994819086528951bc224775 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c403ccdc8190b2a5fda037b6ea34 completed March 1, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ace5833bb88190bcaf8cf46264ab26 completed March 8, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ace61d60d48190a72aaa68264997eb completed March 8, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace6d8e35c8190bff4beff48977efc completed March 8, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.