Triple

T10056911
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mount Union Purple Raiders football E208885 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Jim Ballard
Jim Ballard is a former American football quarterback best known for his record-setting collegiate career at the University of Mount Union and subsequent professional play in the CFL and other leagues.
E838650 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: Jim Ballard | Statement: [Mount Union Purple Raiders football, notableAlumnus, Jim Ballard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Ballard
Context triple: [Mount Union Purple Raiders football, notableAlumnus, Jim Ballard]
  • A. Peter Dombrowski
    Peter Dombrowski is a scholar known for his work in international relations and maritime security studies.
  • B. Thomas Oaster
    Thomas Oaster is an American men's rights advocate best known for initiating and promoting the observance that became International Men's Day.
  • C. Jack McClendon
    Jack McClendon is an actor known for his role in the film "Hellgate."
  • D. Ernie Sabella
    Ernie Sabella is an American actor and voice actor best known for voicing the warthog Pumbaa in Disney’s The Lion King franchise.
  • E. Jon Bosak
    Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
  • 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: Jim Ballard
Triple: [Mount Union Purple Raiders football, notableAlumnus, Jim Ballard]
Generated description
Jim Ballard is a former American football quarterback best known for his record-setting collegiate career at the University of Mount Union and subsequent professional play in the CFL and other leagues.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Ballard
Target entity description: Jim Ballard is a former American football quarterback best known for his record-setting collegiate career at the University of Mount Union and subsequent professional play in the CFL and other leagues.
  • A. Peter Dombrowski
    Peter Dombrowski is a scholar known for his work in international relations and maritime security studies.
  • B. Thomas Oaster
    Thomas Oaster is an American men's rights advocate best known for initiating and promoting the observance that became International Men's Day.
  • C. Jack McClendon
    Jack McClendon is an actor known for his role in the film "Hellgate."
  • D. Ernie Sabella
    Ernie Sabella is an American actor and voice actor best known for voicing the warthog Pumbaa in Disney’s The Lion King franchise.
  • E. Jon Bosak
    Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
  • 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_69ca836094408190a36a1ea7e9a86fcd completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdcfae503881909b9f016da4e2207d completed April 2, 2026, 2:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d29a5258788190a4ecdefa5b520609 completed April 5, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d29b7430248190b8965eaf1286dd7c completed April 5, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d29c7ba9f081908f4614098d6c954b completed April 5, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:57 p.m.