Triple

T1003950
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walker Lake E21666 entity
Predicate locatedInDesert P40 FINISHED
Object Great Basin Desert
The Great Basin Desert is a cold, high-elevation desert in the western United States characterized by basin-and-range topography, sagebrush steppe, and an arid continental climate.
E133929 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: Great Basin Desert | Statement: [Walker Lake, locatedInDesert, Great Basin Desert]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Basin Desert
Context triple: [Walker Lake, locatedInDesert, Great Basin Desert]
  • A. Great Salt Lake Desert
    The Great Salt Lake Desert is a vast, arid salt pan region in northwestern Utah, known for its expansive, barren landscapes and extreme dryness.
  • B. Mojave Desert
    The Mojave Desert is a vast arid region in the southwestern United States known for its extreme temperatures, unique desert ecosystems, and iconic landscapes such as Death Valley and Joshua Tree.
  • C. Great Basin–Mojave transition zone
    The Great Basin–Mojave transition zone is an ecologically and culturally significant desert region in the American Southwest where the Great Basin and Mojave deserts meet, characterized by mixed flora, fauna, and long-standing Indigenous presence.
  • D. Owyhee Desert
    The Owyhee Desert is a remote, high-elevation sagebrush and canyon desert region spanning parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada in the northwestern United States.
  • E. Amargosa Desert
    The Amargosa Desert is an arid region in the Mojave Desert of Nevada and California, known for its extreme dryness, sparse vegetation, and proximity to Death Valley.
  • 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: Great Basin Desert
Triple: [Walker Lake, locatedInDesert, Great Basin Desert]
Generated description
The Great Basin Desert is a cold, high-elevation desert in the western United States characterized by basin-and-range topography, sagebrush steppe, and an arid continental climate.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Basin Desert
Target entity description: The Great Basin Desert is a cold, high-elevation desert in the western United States characterized by basin-and-range topography, sagebrush steppe, and an arid continental climate.
  • A. Great Salt Lake Desert
    The Great Salt Lake Desert is a vast, arid salt pan region in northwestern Utah, known for its expansive, barren landscapes and extreme dryness.
  • B. Mojave Desert
    The Mojave Desert is a vast arid region in the southwestern United States known for its extreme temperatures, unique desert ecosystems, and iconic landscapes such as Death Valley and Joshua Tree.
  • C. Great Basin–Mojave transition zone
    The Great Basin–Mojave transition zone is an ecologically and culturally significant desert region in the American Southwest where the Great Basin and Mojave deserts meet, characterized by mixed flora, fauna, and long-standing Indigenous presence.
  • D. Owyhee Desert
    The Owyhee Desert is a remote, high-elevation sagebrush and canyon desert region spanning parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada in the northwestern United States.
  • E. Amargosa Desert
    The Amargosa Desert is an arid region in the Mojave Desert of Nevada and California, known for its extreme dryness, sparse vegetation, and proximity to Death Valley.
  • 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_69a493c53e648190ae8cb76c433fd9a7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b4ff614081909478500ada1f5059 completed March 1, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac661d6d4c8190a72cd52ec2a27e12 completed March 7, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac66c626e081909ffb74b5f05e5f18 completed March 7, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac673715388190862a8888ff60bd98 completed March 7, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.