Triple

T7218660
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kern River Oil Field E150199 entity
Predicate mainProducingFormation P49857 FINISHED
Object Kern River Formation
The Kern River Formation is a major oil-bearing geologic unit in California’s southern San Joaquin Valley, known for its thick, shallow heavy-oil reservoirs that have been extensively developed using thermal recovery methods.
E649644 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Kern River Formation | Statement: [Kern River Oil Field, mainProducingFormation, Kern River Formation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kern River Formation
Context triple: [Kern River Oil Field, mainProducingFormation, Kern River Formation]
  • A. Carmel Formation
    The Carmel Formation is a Middle Jurassic geologic unit of the western United States, characterized by marine and marginal-marine sediments that record a transition from desert dune environments to shallow seas.
  • B. Temblor Formation
    The Temblor Formation is a geologic rock unit in California’s San Joaquin Basin that is a major petroleum-bearing reservoir, notably in fields such as the Belridge Oil Field.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Diablo Formation
    The Diablo Formation is a geologic rock unit in California known as a significant petroleum-bearing reservoir within fields such as the Belridge Oil Field.
  • E. Claron Formation
    The Claron Formation is a geologic rock unit of colorful limestones and mudstones best known for forming the striking hoodoos and cliffs of Bryce Canyon and other parts of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah.
  • 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: Kern River Formation
Triple: [Kern River Oil Field, mainProducingFormation, Kern River Formation]
Generated description
The Kern River Formation is a major oil-bearing geologic unit in California’s southern San Joaquin Valley, known for its thick, shallow heavy-oil reservoirs that have been extensively developed using thermal recovery methods.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kern River Formation
Target entity description: The Kern River Formation is a major oil-bearing geologic unit in California’s southern San Joaquin Valley, known for its thick, shallow heavy-oil reservoirs that have been extensively developed using thermal recovery methods.
  • A. Carmel Formation
    The Carmel Formation is a Middle Jurassic geologic unit of the western United States, characterized by marine and marginal-marine sediments that record a transition from desert dune environments to shallow seas.
  • B. Temblor Formation
    The Temblor Formation is a geologic rock unit in California’s San Joaquin Basin that is a major petroleum-bearing reservoir, notably in fields such as the Belridge Oil Field.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Diablo Formation
    The Diablo Formation is a geologic rock unit in California known as a significant petroleum-bearing reservoir within fields such as the Belridge Oil Field.
  • E. Claron Formation
    The Claron Formation is a geologic rock unit of colorful limestones and mudstones best known for forming the striking hoodoos and cliffs of Bryce Canyon and other parts of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: mainProducingFormation
Context triple: [Kern River Oil Field, mainProducingFormation, Kern River Formation]
  • A. controlledFormation
    Indicates that one entity intentionally directs, regulates, or governs the way another entity comes into existence or is formed.
  • B. associatedFormation chosen
    Indicates that one entity is linked or connected to a particular formation, such as a geological, structural, or organizational configuration.
  • C. containsFormation
    Indicates that one entity spatially or structurally includes or encloses a formation as part of its extent or composition.
  • D. bandFormation
    Indicates the event or process by which a musical band is created or comes together as a group.
  • E. isMajorFormation
    Indicates that something constitutes a primary or principal structural unit or phase within a larger system, sequence, or process.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69c687effb44819092b95d07d0368c9f completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e9b045c48190b27b2d6f7c11026f completed March 27, 2026, 8:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7cc014fb88190818e12b7abe90c0a completed March 28, 2026, 12:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7ccf3cd4c8190babc9e0e6b9f4371 completed March 28, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7cd5cedd88190b72df89b068c4483 completed March 28, 2026, 12:45 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c6e75f84e481909e7866186ae80cff completed March 27, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:53 p.m.