Triple

T9128468
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Snowball Earth glaciations E219023 entity
Predicate temporalLocation P4137 FINISHED
Object Cryogenian Period
The Cryogenian Period was a geologic interval roughly 720–635 million years ago marked by some of the most extreme global glaciations in Earth’s history, when ice may have covered much of the planet.
E779329 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: Cryogenian Period | Statement: [Snowball Earth glaciations, temporalLocation, Cryogenian Period]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cryogenian Period
Context triple: [Snowball Earth glaciations, temporalLocation, Cryogenian Period]
  • A. Neoproterozoic Era
    The Neoproterozoic Era was the final era of the Proterozoic Eon, marked by global “Snowball Earth” glaciations and the emergence of early multicellular life leading up to the Cambrian explosion.
  • B. Ediacaran Period
    The Ediacaran Period was a late Precambrian geological interval, roughly 635–541 million years ago, marked by the emergence of some of the earliest large, complex multicellular life forms.
  • C. Proterozoic Eon
    The Proterozoic Eon is a major division of Precambrian time, spanning from about 2.5 billion to 541 million years ago, marked by the buildup of atmospheric oxygen, the emergence of complex single-celled and early multicellular life, and the assembly of large continental landmasses.
  • D. Sturtian glaciation
    The Sturtian glaciation was a major global ice age during the Neoproterozoic, when extensive ice sheets may have covered much of Earth’s surface in one of the most severe glacial events in the planet’s history.
  • E. Rhyacian Period
    The Rhyacian Period is a geologic time interval in the early Proterozoic characterized by significant crustal growth, widespread metamorphism, and some of the earliest known large-scale glaciations.
  • 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: Cryogenian Period
Triple: [Snowball Earth glaciations, temporalLocation, Cryogenian Period]
Generated description
The Cryogenian Period was a geologic interval roughly 720–635 million years ago marked by some of the most extreme global glaciations in Earth’s history, when ice may have covered much of the planet.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cryogenian Period
Target entity description: The Cryogenian Period was a geologic interval roughly 720–635 million years ago marked by some of the most extreme global glaciations in Earth’s history, when ice may have covered much of the planet.
  • A. Neoproterozoic Era
    The Neoproterozoic Era was the final era of the Proterozoic Eon, marked by global “Snowball Earth” glaciations and the emergence of early multicellular life leading up to the Cambrian explosion.
  • B. Ediacaran Period
    The Ediacaran Period was a late Precambrian geological interval, roughly 635–541 million years ago, marked by the emergence of some of the earliest large, complex multicellular life forms.
  • C. Proterozoic Eon
    The Proterozoic Eon is a major division of Precambrian time, spanning from about 2.5 billion to 541 million years ago, marked by the buildup of atmospheric oxygen, the emergence of complex single-celled and early multicellular life, and the assembly of large continental landmasses.
  • D. Sturtian glaciation
    The Sturtian glaciation was a major global ice age during the Neoproterozoic, when extensive ice sheets may have covered much of Earth’s surface in one of the most severe glacial events in the planet’s history.
  • E. Rhyacian Period
    The Rhyacian Period is a geologic time interval in the early Proterozoic characterized by significant crustal growth, widespread metamorphism, and some of the earliest known large-scale glaciations.
  • 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_69ca83debfc0819095800583e97ab10f completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca8cc85b081908ee80db0e3b7df15 completed April 1, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d030a934988190976aa359f9f902c3 completed April 3, 2026, 9:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d032a7d9808190a4b3be86e49afb22 completed April 3, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0337057048190af062152688599a1 completed April 3, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:18 p.m.