Triple

T21794635
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Croll E538061 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations
"Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations" is an influential 19th-century scientific work that advanced the theory that variations in Earth’s orbit drive long-term climatic and glacial cycles.
E1502923 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: Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations | Statement: [James Croll, notableWork, Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations
Context triple: [James Croll, notableWork, Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations]
  • A. On the Imperfection of the Geological Record
    "On the Imperfection of the Geological Record" is a chapter in Charles Darwin's *On the Origin of Species* that addresses why the fossil record is incomplete and how this affects evidence for evolutionary change.
  • B. An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth
    *An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth* is an 18th-century geological treatise by John Whitehurst that explores the Earth's structure, history, and the processes that shaped it.
  • C. The Age of the Earth
    The Age of the Earth is a landmark 20th-century geology book that helped establish modern estimates of Earth’s age using radiometric dating methods.
  • D. Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth
    Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth is an 1802 geological treatise by John Playfair that clearly expounds and defends James Hutton’s uniformitarian theory of the Earth’s formation and processes.
  • E. Eocene–Oligocene climate transition
    The Eocene–Oligocene climate transition was a major global cooling event around 34 million years ago that marked the shift from a greenhouse to an icehouse Earth, including the formation of large Antarctic ice sheets.
  • 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: Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations
Triple: [James Croll, notableWork, Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations]
Generated description
"Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations" is an influential 19th-century scientific work that advanced the theory that variations in Earth’s orbit drive long-term climatic and glacial cycles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations
Target entity description: "Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations" is an influential 19th-century scientific work that advanced the theory that variations in Earth’s orbit drive long-term climatic and glacial cycles.
  • A. On the Imperfection of the Geological Record
    "On the Imperfection of the Geological Record" is a chapter in Charles Darwin's *On the Origin of Species* that addresses why the fossil record is incomplete and how this affects evidence for evolutionary change.
  • B. An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth
    *An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth* is an 18th-century geological treatise by John Whitehurst that explores the Earth's structure, history, and the processes that shaped it.
  • C. The Age of the Earth
    The Age of the Earth is a landmark 20th-century geology book that helped establish modern estimates of Earth’s age using radiometric dating methods.
  • D. Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth
    Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth is an 1802 geological treatise by John Playfair that clearly expounds and defends James Hutton’s uniformitarian theory of the Earth’s formation and processes.
  • E. Eocene–Oligocene climate transition
    The Eocene–Oligocene climate transition was a major global cooling event around 34 million years ago that marked the shift from a greenhouse to an icehouse Earth, including the formation of large Antarctic ice sheets.
  • 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_69e0c4733f4081909a86622e7e6d15d2 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f0622329b08190b8cd9be714aca456 completed April 28, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a3e7e3b508190bccf7bfd6856861a completed May 17, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a4292891c8190a9d6202faa3eeb95 completed May 17, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a433f4528819099527393c5966cbb completed May 17, 2026, 10:37 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:53 p.m.