Triple

T15239152
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Western Interior Basin E364208 entity
Predicate includesFormation P42214 FINISHED
Object Mancos Shale
Mancos Shale is a widespread Late Cretaceous marine shale formation in the Western Interior of North America, notable for its rich fossil content and significance in petroleum geology.
E934193 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: Mancos Shale | Statement: [Western Interior Basin, includesFormation, Mancos Shale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mancos Shale
Context triple: [Western Interior Basin, includesFormation, Mancos Shale]
  • A. Thermopolis Shale
    Thermopolis Shale is a Cretaceous-age marine shale formation in the Western Interior of North America, notable for its dark, fossil-bearing mudstones deposited in the Western Interior Seaway.
  • 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. Sundance Formation
    The Sundance Formation is a Middle to Late Jurassic marine sedimentary rock unit in the western United States, known for its shallow sea deposits that underlie the dinosaur-rich Morrison Formation.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Spraberry Formation
    The Spraberry Formation is a major oil-bearing geologic unit in West Texas, renowned as one of the most prolific tight oil reservoirs within the Permian Basin.
  • 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: Mancos Shale
Triple: [Western Interior Basin, includesFormation, Mancos Shale]
Generated description
Mancos Shale is a widespread Late Cretaceous marine shale formation in the Western Interior of North America, notable for its rich fossil content and significance in petroleum geology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mancos Shale
Target entity description: Mancos Shale is a widespread Late Cretaceous marine shale formation in the Western Interior of North America, notable for its rich fossil content and significance in petroleum geology.
  • A. Thermopolis Shale
    Thermopolis Shale is a Cretaceous-age marine shale formation in the Western Interior of North America, notable for its dark, fossil-bearing mudstones deposited in the Western Interior Seaway.
  • 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. Sundance Formation
    The Sundance Formation is a Middle to Late Jurassic marine sedimentary rock unit in the western United States, known for its shallow sea deposits that underlie the dinosaur-rich Morrison Formation.
  • D. Graneros Shale chosen
    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.
  • E. Spraberry Formation
    The Spraberry Formation is a major oil-bearing geologic unit in West Texas, renowned as one of the most prolific tight oil reservoirs within the Permian Basin.
  • F. None of above.

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.