Triple

T21112561
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Saalian glaciation E520209 entity
Predicate chronostratigraphicUnitOf P18868 FINISHED
Object Saalian Stage NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Saalian Stage | Statement: [Saalian glaciation, chronostratigraphicUnitOf, Saalian Stage]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Saalian Stage
Context triple: [Saalian glaciation, chronostratigraphicUnitOf, Saalian Stage]
  • A. Pridoli Epoch
    The Pridoli Epoch is the final epoch of the Silurian Period, marking a transitional interval in Earth’s history just before the onset of the Devonian.
  • B. Aquitanian Stage
    The Aquitanian Stage is the earliest age of the Miocene Epoch, marking a distinct interval in Earth’s geologic time characterized by significant climatic and faunal transitions.
  • C. Saalian glaciation chosen
    The Saalian glaciation was a major Middle Pleistocene ice age in northern Europe, during which extensive ice sheets covered large parts of the continent.
  • D. Darriwilian Stage
    The Darriwilian Stage is a division of the Ordovician Period marked by significant diversification of marine life and used globally to date and correlate Middle Ordovician rock strata.
  • E. Asselian Stage
    The Asselian Stage is the earliest stage of the Permian Period, marking the transition from the Carboniferous and characterized by distinctive marine and terrestrial fossil assemblages used for global stratigraphic correlation.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: chronostratigraphicUnitOf
Context triple: [Saalian glaciation, chronostratigraphicUnitOf, Saalian Stage]
  • A. hasChronostratigraphicUnit chosen
    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. chronostratigraphicRank
    Indicates the hierarchical level or rank of a unit within the chronostratigraphic (time-stratigraphic) classification system.
  • C. stratigraphicSuperunitOf
    Indicates that one stratigraphic unit is a higher-level or more encompassing unit that contains or groups together another stratigraphic unit within a geological stratigraphic hierarchy.
  • D. globalChronostratigraphicScale
    Indicates a temporal classification relationship where an entity is placed within the standardized global chronostratigraphic scale of geological time.
  • E. usedAsChronostratigraphicMarkerFor
    Indicates that something serves as a reference point or marker for defining or correlating geological time intervals in a chronostratigraphic framework.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (3 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_69e0b509a318819092fbbcb21d1fe603 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e72103b3888190a19e9a40f01fb439 completed April 21, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69e5dbff56848190a03b350a9305c612 completed April 20, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:54 p.m.