Triple

T5569752
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kaikōura E145967 entity
Predicate wasAffectedBy P9 FINISHED
Object 2016 Kaikōura earthquake
The 2016 Kaikōura earthquake was a powerful magnitude 7.8 quake that struck New Zealand’s South Island, causing widespread ground deformation, landslides, and infrastructure damage across the Kaikōura region and beyond.
E530267 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: 2016 Kaikōura earthquake | Statement: [Kaikōura, wasAffectedBy, 2016 Kaikōura earthquake]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2016 Kaikōura earthquake
Context triple: [Kaikōura, wasAffectedBy, 2016 Kaikōura earthquake]
  • A. 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake
    The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake was a devastating 7.8-magnitude quake that struck New Zealand’s North Island, killing over 250 people and reshaping the cities of Napier and Hastings through widespread destruction and subsequent Art Deco–style reconstruction.
  • B. 2010 Canterbury earthquake
    The 2010 Canterbury earthquake was a powerful 7.1-magnitude quake that struck New Zealand’s South Island near Christchurch, causing widespread damage but no direct fatalities.
  • C. 2011 Christchurch earthquake sequence
    The 2011 Christchurch earthquake sequence was a series of powerful and destructive earthquakes in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, centered on and around Christchurch, causing widespread damage, loss of life, and long-term impacts on infrastructure and communities.
  • D. 1960 Valdivia earthquake
    The 1960 Valdivia earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, a magnitude 9.5 megathrust event that devastated southern Chile and triggered tsunamis across the Pacific.
  • E. 2010 Chile earthquake
    The 2010 Chile earthquake was a massive magnitude 8.8 megathrust quake off the coast of central Chile that caused widespread destruction, triggered a tsunami, and became one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.
  • 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: 2016 Kaikōura earthquake
Triple: [Kaikōura, wasAffectedBy, 2016 Kaikōura earthquake]
Generated description
The 2016 Kaikōura earthquake was a powerful magnitude 7.8 quake that struck New Zealand’s South Island, causing widespread ground deformation, landslides, and infrastructure damage across the Kaikōura region and beyond.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2016 Kaikōura earthquake
Target entity description: The 2016 Kaikōura earthquake was a powerful magnitude 7.8 quake that struck New Zealand’s South Island, causing widespread ground deformation, landslides, and infrastructure damage across the Kaikōura region and beyond.
  • A. 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake
    The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake was a devastating 7.8-magnitude quake that struck New Zealand’s North Island, killing over 250 people and reshaping the cities of Napier and Hastings through widespread destruction and subsequent Art Deco–style reconstruction.
  • B. 2010 Canterbury earthquake
    The 2010 Canterbury earthquake was a powerful 7.1-magnitude quake that struck New Zealand’s South Island near Christchurch, causing widespread damage but no direct fatalities.
  • C. 2011 Christchurch earthquake sequence
    The 2011 Christchurch earthquake sequence was a series of powerful and destructive earthquakes in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, centered on and around Christchurch, causing widespread damage, loss of life, and long-term impacts on infrastructure and communities.
  • D. 1960 Valdivia earthquake
    The 1960 Valdivia earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, a magnitude 9.5 megathrust event that devastated southern Chile and triggered tsunamis across the Pacific.
  • E. 2010 Chile earthquake
    The 2010 Chile earthquake was a massive magnitude 8.8 megathrust quake off the coast of central Chile that caused widespread destruction, triggered a tsunami, and became one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.
  • 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_69c008fdae24819081aa002ad99cd966 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0204f0d288190b9d4884665ba9116 completed March 22, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0284bb71881908c0ac4ea2a302327 completed March 22, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c040a395488190bea2fd651c3aeef7 completed March 22, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04141ea408190aba1463d56ad6b7d completed March 22, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:36 p.m.