Triple

T6961162
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bakken formation region E161370 entity
Predicate contains P35 FINISHED
Object Lower Bakken shale
Lower Bakken shale is an organic-rich, fine-grained shale interval within the Bakken petroleum system that serves primarily as a major source rock for oil and gas production in the Williston Basin.
E161370 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: Lower Bakken shale | Statement: [Bakken formation region, contains, Lower Bakken shale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lower Bakken shale
Context triple: [Bakken formation region, contains, Lower Bakken shale]
  • A. Bakken
    Bakken is a surname most notably associated with Earl Bakken, the American engineer and co-founder of the medical device company Medtronic.
  • B. Bakken formation region
    The Bakken formation region is a major oil- and gas-rich shale play in the Williston Basin of the northern United States and southern Canada, known for its significant role in the North American energy boom.
  • C. Montrose Basin
    Montrose Basin is a large tidal estuary and wildlife reserve on Scotland’s east coast, renowned for its rich birdlife and coastal habitats.
  • D. Sundance Formation
    The Sundance Formation is a Middle to Late Jurassic marine sedimentary rock unit in the western United States, known for its shallow sea deposits that underlie the dinosaur-rich Morrison Formation.
  • E. Williston Basin
    The Williston Basin is a large sedimentary basin in the northern Great Plains of the United States and Canada, known for its rich oil and gas reserves, including the prolific Bakken Formation.
  • 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: Lower Bakken shale
Triple: [Bakken formation region, contains, Lower Bakken shale]
Generated description
Lower Bakken shale is an organic-rich, fine-grained shale interval within the Bakken petroleum system that serves primarily as a major source rock for oil and gas production in the Williston Basin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lower Bakken shale
Target entity description: Lower Bakken shale is an organic-rich, fine-grained shale interval within the Bakken petroleum system that serves primarily as a major source rock for oil and gas production in the Williston Basin.
  • A. Bakken
    Bakken is a surname most notably associated with Earl Bakken, the American engineer and co-founder of the medical device company Medtronic.
  • B. Bakken formation region chosen
    The Bakken formation region is a major oil- and gas-rich shale play in the Williston Basin of the northern United States and southern Canada, known for its significant role in the North American energy boom.
  • C. Montrose Basin
    Montrose Basin is a large tidal estuary and wildlife reserve on Scotland’s east coast, renowned for its rich birdlife and coastal habitats.
  • D. Sundance Formation
    The Sundance Formation is a Middle to Late Jurassic marine sedimentary rock unit in the western United States, known for its shallow sea deposits that underlie the dinosaur-rich Morrison Formation.
  • E. Williston Basin
    The Williston Basin is a large sedimentary basin in the northern Great Plains of the United States and Canada, known for its rich oil and gas reserves, including the prolific Bakken Formation.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c68852a9a0819097797e31d492e273 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6daeee4d48190b078beeebb0053f4 completed March 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7618df8648190bec6c0aaca312efd completed March 28, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c763e95d8081908885dec9a5ca90c7 completed March 28, 2026, 5:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7643fdea0819093205e5d8bf9a818 completed March 28, 2026, 5:16 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:29 p.m.