Triple

T3899032
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ordovician Period E90440 entity
Predicate subdividedInto P747 FINISHED
Object Middle Ordovician
The Middle Ordovician is a subdivision of the Ordovician Period characterized by significant diversification of marine life and widespread shallow epicontinental seas.
E398622 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: Middle Ordovician | Statement: [Ordovician Period, subdividedInto, Middle Ordovician]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Middle Ordovician
Context triple: [Ordovician Period, subdividedInto, Middle Ordovician]
  • A. Middle Devonian
    The Middle Devonian is a subdivision of the Devonian Period, dating to roughly 393–383 million years ago, marked by extensive marine life diversification and the continued evolution of early terrestrial ecosystems.
  • B. Ordovician Period
    The Ordovician Period was a Paleozoic era interval marked by extensive marine biodiversity, the diversification of early vertebrates and invertebrates, and ending with one of Earth's major mass extinction events.
  • C. Early Devonian
    The Early Devonian was the initial subdivision of the Devonian Period, marked by the diversification of early fishes and the spread of primitive vascular land plants across emerging terrestrial ecosystems.
  • D. Middle Triassic
    The Middle Triassic is the middle epoch of the Triassic Period, marked by the recovery of life after the end-Permian mass extinction and the early diversification of dinosaurs and marine reptiles.
  • E. Late Devonian
    The Late Devonian was the final epoch of the Devonian Period, marked by extensive reef collapse, major evolutionary changes in fish and early land plants, and several significant mass extinction events.
  • 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: Middle Ordovician
Triple: [Ordovician Period, subdividedInto, Middle Ordovician]
Generated description
The Middle Ordovician is a subdivision of the Ordovician Period characterized by significant diversification of marine life and widespread shallow epicontinental seas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Middle Ordovician
Target entity description: The Middle Ordovician is a subdivision of the Ordovician Period characterized by significant diversification of marine life and widespread shallow epicontinental seas.
  • A. Middle Devonian
    The Middle Devonian is a subdivision of the Devonian Period, dating to roughly 393–383 million years ago, marked by extensive marine life diversification and the continued evolution of early terrestrial ecosystems.
  • B. Ordovician Period
    The Ordovician Period was a Paleozoic era interval marked by extensive marine biodiversity, the diversification of early vertebrates and invertebrates, and ending with one of Earth's major mass extinction events.
  • C. Early Devonian
    The Early Devonian was the initial subdivision of the Devonian Period, marked by the diversification of early fishes and the spread of primitive vascular land plants across emerging terrestrial ecosystems.
  • D. Middle Triassic
    The Middle Triassic is the middle epoch of the Triassic Period, marked by the recovery of life after the end-Permian mass extinction and the early diversification of dinosaurs and marine reptiles.
  • E. Late Devonian
    The Late Devonian was the final epoch of the Devonian Period, marked by extensive reef collapse, major evolutionary changes in fish and early land plants, and several significant mass extinction events.
  • 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_69aed95d315881908cbf1bf4a7215fbf completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeecefa3608190a7a20ed6df6a64b2 completed March 9, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5285093208190a2ba00afcbd8a261 completed March 14, 2026, 9:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b528d33c2081908e5f74005679dfbe completed March 14, 2026, 9:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5294c66588190ad7cc8e87b58ff52 completed March 14, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:21 p.m.