Triple

T6418386
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ross Ice Shelf E127884 entity
Predicate terminusOf P3375 FINISHED
Object Whillans Ice Stream
Whillans Ice Stream is a major fast-flowing channel of ice in West Antarctica that drains part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Ice Shelf.
E593249 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: Whillans Ice Stream | Statement: [Ross Ice Shelf, terminusOf, Whillans Ice Stream]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whillans Ice Stream
Context triple: [Ross Ice Shelf, terminusOf, Whillans Ice Stream]
  • A. Palmer Glacier
    Palmer Glacier is a year-round snowfield and ski training area located high on the slopes of Mount Hood in northern Oregon.
  • B. Pine Island Glacier
    Pine Island Glacier is one of Antarctica’s largest and fastest-melting glaciers, a major contributor to global sea-level rise located in West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea sector.
  • C. Thwaites Glacier
    Thwaites Glacier is a massive and rapidly melting Antarctic glacier, often called the "Doomsday Glacier" for its potential to significantly raise global sea levels if it collapses.
  • D. Aialik Glacier
    Aialik Glacier is a large, actively calving tidewater glacier on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, popular for boat tours and wildlife viewing within Kenai Fjords National Park.
  • E. Ross Glacier
    Ross Glacier is a glacier located within the Allardyce Range on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.
  • 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: Whillans Ice Stream
Triple: [Ross Ice Shelf, terminusOf, Whillans Ice Stream]
Generated description
Whillans Ice Stream is a major fast-flowing channel of ice in West Antarctica that drains part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Ice Shelf.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whillans Ice Stream
Target entity description: Whillans Ice Stream is a major fast-flowing channel of ice in West Antarctica that drains part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Ice Shelf.
  • A. Palmer Glacier
    Palmer Glacier is a year-round snowfield and ski training area located high on the slopes of Mount Hood in northern Oregon.
  • B. Pine Island Glacier
    Pine Island Glacier is one of Antarctica’s largest and fastest-melting glaciers, a major contributor to global sea-level rise located in West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea sector.
  • C. Thwaites Glacier
    Thwaites Glacier is a massive and rapidly melting Antarctic glacier, often called the "Doomsday Glacier" for its potential to significantly raise global sea levels if it collapses.
  • D. Aialik Glacier
    Aialik Glacier is a large, actively calving tidewater glacier on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, popular for boat tours and wildlife viewing within Kenai Fjords National Park.
  • E. Ross Glacier
    Ross Glacier is a glacier located within the Allardyce Range on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.
  • 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_69c0083815208190a9b299b8e0640218 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c068eb6c988190b54de6182d0f490d completed March 22, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c640d2ab64819089e91525da60392b completed March 27, 2026, 8:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c644ec2ca48190997a118f8751cba5 completed March 27, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6455961b881908f5804d9c0e86573 completed March 27, 2026, 8:52 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:42 p.m.