Triple

T15223398
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Burgess Shale E363816 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Stephen Formation
The Stephen Formation is a Middle Cambrian geological formation in the Canadian Rockies renowned for preserving the fossil-rich Burgess Shale and providing key insights into early marine life evolution.
E1145869 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: Stephen Formation | Statement: [Burgess Shale, partOf, Stephen Formation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen Formation
Context triple: [Burgess Shale, partOf, Stephen Formation]
  • A. Lance Formation
    Lance Formation is a Late Cretaceous geological formation in North America renowned for its rich dinosaur fossil beds, including specimens of Triceratops.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Diablo Formation
    The Diablo Formation is a geologic rock unit in California known as a significant petroleum-bearing reservoir within fields such as the Belridge Oil Field.
  • D. Yeso Formation
    The Yeso Formation is a geologic unit of early Permian age in the southwestern United States, notable for its thick sequences of evaporites and sandstones that record arid, shallow-marine and coastal depositional environments within the Permian Basin region.
  • E. Murray formation
    The Murray formation is a sedimentary rock unit on Mars within Gale Crater, studied by the Curiosity rover for its record of ancient lake and habitable environments.
  • 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: Stephen Formation
Triple: [Burgess Shale, partOf, Stephen Formation]
Generated description
The Stephen Formation is a Middle Cambrian geological formation in the Canadian Rockies renowned for preserving the fossil-rich Burgess Shale and providing key insights into early marine life evolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen Formation
Target entity description: The Stephen Formation is a Middle Cambrian geological formation in the Canadian Rockies renowned for preserving the fossil-rich Burgess Shale and providing key insights into early marine life evolution.
  • A. Lance Formation
    Lance Formation is a Late Cretaceous geological formation in North America renowned for its rich dinosaur fossil beds, including specimens of Triceratops.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Diablo Formation
    The Diablo Formation is a geologic rock unit in California known as a significant petroleum-bearing reservoir within fields such as the Belridge Oil Field.
  • D. Yeso Formation
    The Yeso Formation is a geologic unit of early Permian age in the southwestern United States, notable for its thick sequences of evaporites and sandstones that record arid, shallow-marine and coastal depositional environments within the Permian Basin region.
  • E. Murray formation
    The Murray formation is a sedimentary rock unit on Mars within Gale Crater, studied by the Curiosity rover for its record of ancient lake and habitable environments.
  • 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_69d85a0ce24c81909c4d3b6475548c95 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0078a9318819081db3b7bcc28e04f completed April 15, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fedd3397a48190bae8b2a359ee4ae8 completed May 9, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fedf8589888190b705177fc6efdde0 completed May 9, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fee0e3fc9881909f67a86d67a3f61b completed May 9, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m.