Triple

T5569730
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kaikōura E145967 entity
Predicate hasNearbyOceanFeature P49291 FINISHED
Object Hikurangi Trench
The Hikurangi Trench is a deep ocean trench off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Australian Plate and known for its rich marine life and seismic activity.
E534406 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: Hikurangi Trench | Statement: [Kaikōura, hasNearbyOceanFeature, Hikurangi Trench]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hikurangi Trench
Context triple: [Kaikōura, hasNearbyOceanFeature, Hikurangi Trench]
  • A. New Britain Trench
    The New Britain Trench is a deep oceanic trench near Papua New Guinea formed by the subduction of the Solomon Sea Plate beneath the South Bismarck Plate, making it one of the major deep-sea features of the southwestern Pacific.
  • B. New Hebrides Trench
    The New Hebrides Trench is a deep oceanic trench formed by subduction along the convergent plate boundary near the New Hebrides island arc in the southwest Pacific.
  • C. Sunda Trench
    The Sunda Trench is a deep oceanic trench in the eastern Indian Ocean off the coasts of Sumatra and Java, formed by the subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate.
  • D. Aleutian Trench
    The Aleutian Trench is a deep oceanic trench in the North Pacific where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the North American Plate, forming part of a major seismically active subduction zone.
  • E. New Guinea Trench
    The New Guinea Trench is a deep oceanic trench in the western Pacific Ocean formed by the subduction of the Caroline Plate beneath the New Guinea region.
  • 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: Hikurangi Trench
Triple: [Kaikōura, hasNearbyOceanFeature, Hikurangi Trench]
Generated description
The Hikurangi Trench is a deep ocean trench off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Australian Plate and known for its rich marine life and seismic activity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hikurangi Trench
Target entity description: The Hikurangi Trench is a deep ocean trench off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Australian Plate and known for its rich marine life and seismic activity.
  • A. New Britain Trench
    The New Britain Trench is a deep oceanic trench near Papua New Guinea formed by the subduction of the Solomon Sea Plate beneath the South Bismarck Plate, making it one of the major deep-sea features of the southwestern Pacific.
  • B. New Hebrides Trench
    The New Hebrides Trench is a deep oceanic trench formed by subduction along the convergent plate boundary near the New Hebrides island arc in the southwest Pacific.
  • C. Sunda Trench
    The Sunda Trench is a deep oceanic trench in the eastern Indian Ocean off the coasts of Sumatra and Java, formed by the subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate.
  • D. Aleutian Trench
    The Aleutian Trench is a deep oceanic trench in the North Pacific where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the North American Plate, forming part of a major seismically active subduction zone.
  • E. New Guinea Trench
    The New Guinea Trench is a deep oceanic trench in the western Pacific Ocean formed by the subduction of the Caroline Plate beneath the New Guinea region.
  • 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_69c008fdae24819081aa002ad99cd966 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c021d8d600819097df4e265e262d90 completed March 22, 2026, 5:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04d177d18819090018371d22c66a3 completed March 22, 2026, 8:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04e868cc48190bdb245ba52b9b938 completed March 22, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04f0de68c8190817b525f2d8ef327 completed March 22, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:36 p.m.