Triple

T5667333
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colorado River Numic E124887 entity
Predicate geographicDistribution P2178 FINISHED
Object Great Basin–Colorado River transition area
The Great Basin–Colorado River transition area is a geographic region where the ecosystems and cultural territories of the Great Basin and Colorado River Plateau overlap and blend.
E551580 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–Colorado River transition area | Statement: [Colorado River Numic, geographicDistribution, Great Basin–Colorado River transition area]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Basin–Colorado River transition area
Context triple: [Colorado River Numic, geographicDistribution, Great Basin–Colorado River transition area]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Great Basin
    The Great Basin is a vast, arid region of interior drainage in the western United States, characterized by its basin-and-range topography, deserts, and salt flats.
  • C. Great Basin–Pacific watershed divide region
    The Great Basin–Pacific watershed divide region is a hydrological boundary area in the western United States where drainage basins separate between internally draining Great Basin watersheds and those that flow outward to the Pacific Ocean.
  • D. Sierra Nevada–Great Basin transition zone
    The Sierra Nevada–Great Basin transition zone is a geologic and ecological boundary region in eastern California and western Nevada where the high, granitic Sierra Nevada meets the arid, fault-block ranges and basins of the Great Basin.
  • E. Basin and Range Province
    The Basin and Range Province is a vast geologic region of the western United States and northern Mexico characterized by alternating mountain ranges and arid basins formed through crustal extension.
  • 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–Colorado River transition area
Triple: [Colorado River Numic, geographicDistribution, Great Basin–Colorado River transition area]
Generated description
The Great Basin–Colorado River transition area is a geographic region where the ecosystems and cultural territories of the Great Basin and Colorado River Plateau overlap and blend.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Basin–Colorado River transition area
Target entity description: The Great Basin–Colorado River transition area is a geographic region where the ecosystems and cultural territories of the Great Basin and Colorado River Plateau overlap and blend.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Great Basin
    The Great Basin is a vast, arid region of interior drainage in the western United States, characterized by its basin-and-range topography, deserts, and salt flats.
  • C. Great Basin–Pacific watershed divide region
    The Great Basin–Pacific watershed divide region is a hydrological boundary area in the western United States where drainage basins separate between internally draining Great Basin watersheds and those that flow outward to the Pacific Ocean.
  • D. Sierra Nevada–Great Basin transition zone
    The Sierra Nevada–Great Basin transition zone is a geologic and ecological boundary region in eastern California and western Nevada where the high, granitic Sierra Nevada meets the arid, fault-block ranges and basins of the Great Basin.
  • E. Basin and Range Province
    The Basin and Range Province is a vast geologic region of the western United States and northern Mexico characterized by alternating mountain ranges and arid basins formed through crustal extension.
  • 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_69c00828906881908966f270b8f130cf completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02345004081908858867be48d3885 completed March 22, 2026, 5:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0a14f02e88190824efb80215be616 completed March 23, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0a1faf7d48190ad2d5f43ef37da82 completed March 23, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0a2e17cd88190a54f5166fe5c654a completed March 23, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:43 p.m.