Triple

T17041741
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Appalachian Basin E413460 entity
Predicate containsFormation P42214 FINISHED
Object Utica Shale
Utica Shale is a major organic-rich shale formation in the northeastern United States that serves as an important source of natural gas and oil.
 E1249907 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: Utica Shale | Statement: [Appalachian Basin, containsFormation, Utica Shale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Utica Shale
Context triple: [Appalachian Basin, containsFormation, Utica 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. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Utica Shale
Triple: [Appalachian Basin, containsFormation, Utica Shale]
Generated description
Utica Shale is a major organic-rich shale formation in the northeastern United States that serves as an important source of natural gas and oil.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Utica Shale
Target entity description: Utica Shale is a major organic-rich shale formation in the northeastern United States that serves as an important source of natural gas and oil.
  • 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. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69d886cd18288190b006abab23f811b7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d8f771608190b596138ddec118c6 completed April 18, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a012ed472d48190bc6aed49464dc1ff completed May 11, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a012fe2a1b081909483baef845cc2c1 completed May 11, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0130c5f7388190b10a62ed1b61cce0 completed May 11, 2026, 1:28 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.