Triple

T15239061
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pierre Shale E364206 entity
Predicate underlies P4501 FINISHED
Object Fox Hills Sandstone
Fox Hills Sandstone is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation in the Western Interior of North America, known for its nearshore marine to coastal sandstones that overlie the Pierre Shale and host significant fossil and hydrocarbon resources.
E1145389 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: Fox Hills Sandstone | Statement: [Pierre Shale, underlies, Fox Hills Sandstone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fox Hills Sandstone
Context triple: [Pierre Shale, underlies, Fox Hills Sandstone]
  • A. Wingate Sandstone
    Wingate Sandstone is a prominent Late Triassic sandstone formation of the Colorado Plateau, known for forming towering vertical cliffs and dramatic canyon walls in places like Capitol Reef National Park.
  • B. Lookout Sandstone
    Lookout Sandstone is a prominent sedimentary rock formation of the southern Appalachian region, notable for shaping the dramatic cliffs and canyon walls of areas like Little River Canyon.
  • C. Nugget Sandstone
    Nugget Sandstone is a prominent Jurassic-age sandstone unit of the western United States, best known for its extensive eolian (wind-deposited) dune deposits and its role as a significant reservoir rock in regional geology.
  • D. Harper Sandstone
    Harper Sandstone is a geologic rock formation known for its sandstone layers that record ancient depositional environments in the regional stratigraphic sequence.
  • E. Hawkesbury Sandstone
    Hawkesbury Sandstone is a prominent Triassic sedimentary rock formation in the Sydney region of Australia, known for its thick, cliff-forming sandstone beds that shape much of the local landscape and geology.
  • 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: Fox Hills Sandstone
Triple: [Pierre Shale, underlies, Fox Hills Sandstone]
Generated description
Fox Hills Sandstone is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation in the Western Interior of North America, known for its nearshore marine to coastal sandstones that overlie the Pierre Shale and host significant fossil and hydrocarbon resources.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fox Hills Sandstone
Target entity description: Fox Hills Sandstone is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation in the Western Interior of North America, known for its nearshore marine to coastal sandstones that overlie the Pierre Shale and host significant fossil and hydrocarbon resources.
  • A. Wingate Sandstone
    Wingate Sandstone is a prominent Late Triassic sandstone formation of the Colorado Plateau, known for forming towering vertical cliffs and dramatic canyon walls in places like Capitol Reef National Park.
  • B. Lookout Sandstone
    Lookout Sandstone is a prominent sedimentary rock formation of the southern Appalachian region, notable for shaping the dramatic cliffs and canyon walls of areas like Little River Canyon.
  • C. Nugget Sandstone
    Nugget Sandstone is a prominent Jurassic-age sandstone unit of the western United States, best known for its extensive eolian (wind-deposited) dune deposits and its role as a significant reservoir rock in regional geology.
  • D. Harper Sandstone
    Harper Sandstone is a geologic rock formation known for its sandstone layers that record ancient depositional environments in the regional stratigraphic sequence.
  • E. Hawkesbury Sandstone
    Hawkesbury Sandstone is a prominent Triassic sedimentary rock formation in the Sydney region of Australia, known for its thick, cliff-forming sandstone beds that shape much of the local landscape and geology.
  • 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_69d85a0dde7481908fc64d1e82d5d20d completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e007da7e988190925a9b67b8070bc7 completed April 15, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fedd3f9d308190af5374f0362c62f5 completed May 9, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69feded546688190b931b60a55babcd0 completed May 9, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fedf72e6148190afbfbe92ed2ed277 completed May 9, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m.