Triple

T14211201
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wianamatta Group E352235 entity
Predicate stratigraphicSuperunitOf P113229 FINISHED
Object Ashfield Shale
Ashfield Shale is a geological rock unit in the Sydney Basin of eastern Australia, notable for its fine-grained sedimentary deposits formed during the Triassic period.
E1085871 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Ashfield Shale | Statement: [Wianamatta Group, stratigraphicSuperunitOf, Ashfield Shale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ashfield Shale
Context triple: [Wianamatta Group, stratigraphicSuperunitOf, Ashfield Shale]
  • A. Graneros Shale
    Graneros Shale is a Cretaceous-age marine shale formation in the central United States, notable for recording the early transgression of the Western Interior Seaway and for its fossil-rich, fine-grained sediments.
  • B. Ninnescah Shale
    Ninnescah Shale is a geologic rock unit known for its shale deposits, typically associated with Permian-age sedimentary sequences in the central United States.
  • C. Marcellus Shale
    Marcellus Shale is a vast natural gas–rich sedimentary rock formation underlying much of the Appalachian Basin in the eastern United States, notably Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and New York.
  • D. Curtis Formation
    The Curtis Formation is a Middle Jurassic geologic unit in the western United States, characterized mainly by marine sandstones and siltstones that record shallow sea environments.
  • E. Carbondale Formation
    The Carbondale Formation is a Pennsylvanian-age rock unit in the Illinois Basin renowned for its rich coal beds and exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages, including those of the Mazon Creek area.
  • 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: Ashfield Shale
Triple: [Wianamatta Group, stratigraphicSuperunitOf, Ashfield Shale]
Generated description
Ashfield Shale is a geological rock unit in the Sydney Basin of eastern Australia, notable for its fine-grained sedimentary deposits formed during the Triassic period.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ashfield Shale
Target entity description: Ashfield Shale is a geological rock unit in the Sydney Basin of eastern Australia, notable for its fine-grained sedimentary deposits formed during the Triassic period.
  • A. Graneros Shale
    Graneros Shale is a Cretaceous-age marine shale formation in the central United States, notable for recording the early transgression of the Western Interior Seaway and for its fossil-rich, fine-grained sediments.
  • B. Ninnescah Shale
    Ninnescah Shale is a geologic rock unit known for its shale deposits, typically associated with Permian-age sedimentary sequences in the central United States.
  • C. Marcellus Shale
    Marcellus Shale is a vast natural gas–rich sedimentary rock formation underlying much of the Appalachian Basin in the eastern United States, notably Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and New York.
  • D. Curtis Formation
    The Curtis Formation is a Middle Jurassic geologic unit in the western United States, characterized mainly by marine sandstones and siltstones that record shallow sea environments.
  • E. Carbondale Formation
    The Carbondale Formation is a Pennsylvanian-age rock unit in the Illinois Basin renowned for its rich coal beds and exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages, including those of the Mazon Creek area.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: stratigraphicSuperunitOf
Context triple: [Wianamatta Group, stratigraphicSuperunitOf, Ashfield Shale]
  • A. hasChronostratigraphicUnit
    Indicates a relationship where something is associated with, or classified by, a specific chronostratigraphic unit (a defined interval of geological time represented by rock layers).
  • B. stratigraphicUnitRank
    Indicates the hierarchical rank or level of a stratigraphic unit within a geological stratigraphic framework (e.g., formation, member, group).
  • C. isKeyStratigraphicUnitFor
    Indicates that one stratigraphic unit serves as the primary or defining reference layer for interpreting or correlating other geological units in a given context.
  • D. hasStratigraphicPosition
    Indicates the relative position of one geological layer or unit within a stratigraphic sequence in relation to another.
  • E. hasStratigraphicFeature
    Indicates a relationship in which a geological unit, site, or context contains, exhibits, or is associated with a particular stratigraphic feature (such as a layer, horizon, or boundary) within its stratigraphic sequence.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69d8278a06e481908b5d6af0a8afe737 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de620dba0c8190bb77a1df10e1d3a7 completed April 14, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd19574280819091bafd95a75983bf completed May 7, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd1a231cbc819083d38e25073892bf completed May 7, 2026, 11:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd1ada47788190afcf8078d76ef339 completed May 7, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69de05bcd7d48190a4848d9320404aa6 completed April 14, 2026, 9:15 a.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69de239a02e881909b0e2679487e4ab2 completed April 14, 2026, 11:23 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:05 a.m.