Triple

T15239074
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pierre Shale E364206 entity
Predicate hasSubunits P71417 FINISHED
Object Mitten Black Shale Member
The Mitten Black Shale Member is a distinctive organic-rich shale subdivision within the Pierre Shale formation, notable for its dark color and fine-grained marine sedimentary deposits.
E1145391 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: Mitten Black Shale Member | Statement: [Pierre Shale, hasSubunits, Mitten Black Shale Member]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mitten Black Shale Member
Context triple: [Pierre Shale, hasSubunits, Mitten Black Shale Member]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Bringelly Shale
    Bringelly Shale is a geological rock formation in the Sydney Basin of eastern Australia, notable for its claystone and shale deposits that overlie the Hawkesbury Sandstone.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Emu Bay Shale
    Emu Bay Shale is a renowned Cambrian fossil deposit in South Australia noted for its exceptionally well-preserved soft-bodied marine organisms.
  • 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: Mitten Black Shale Member
Triple: [Pierre Shale, hasSubunits, Mitten Black Shale Member]
Generated description
The Mitten Black Shale Member is a distinctive organic-rich shale subdivision within the Pierre Shale formation, notable for its dark color and fine-grained marine sedimentary deposits.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mitten Black Shale Member
Target entity description: The Mitten Black Shale Member is a distinctive organic-rich shale subdivision within the Pierre Shale formation, notable for its dark color and fine-grained marine sedimentary deposits.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Bringelly Shale
    Bringelly Shale is a geological rock formation in the Sydney Basin of eastern Australia, notable for its claystone and shale deposits that overlie the Hawkesbury Sandstone.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Emu Bay Shale
    Emu Bay Shale is a renowned Cambrian fossil deposit in South Australia noted for its exceptionally well-preserved soft-bodied marine organisms.
  • 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_69d85a0dde7481908fc64d1e82d5d20d completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e007db9a148190aadea8d5f8b6b261 completed April 15, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fedd3f9d308190af5374f0362c62f5 completed May 9, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69feded546688190b931b60a55babcd0 completed May 9, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fedf72e6148190afbfbe92ed2ed277 completed May 9, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m.