Triple

T10817615
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Basketball League (1961–1963) E255272 entity
Predicate hadTeam P330 FINISHED
Object Washington Tapers
The Washington Tapers were a short-lived professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., that competed in the early 1960s.
 E887691 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: Washington Tapers | Statement: [American Basketball League (1961–1963), hadTeam, Washington Tapers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Washington Tapers
Context triple: [American Basketball League (1961–1963), hadTeam, Washington Tapers]
  • A. New Washington
    New Washington is a coastal municipality in the province of Aklan in the Philippines, known for its fishing industry and proximity to Kalibo and Boracay.
  • B. Pendleton
    Pendleton is an inner-city district of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, known for its mix of residential areas, retail developments, and post-war social housing.
  • C. Pendleton
    Pendleton is a small city in northeastern Oregon known for its historic downtown, Native American cultural heritage, and the annual Pendleton Round-Up rodeo.
  • D. Washington (Blue)
    Washington (Blue) is a former Chicago Transit Authority subway station on the Blue Line that once served downtown Chicago beneath Dearborn Street.
  • E. Takoma
    Takoma is the namesake area whose name was adopted by the city of Takoma Park, Maryland.
  • 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: Washington Tapers
Triple: [American Basketball League (1961–1963), hadTeam, Washington Tapers]
Generated description
The Washington Tapers were a short-lived professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., that competed in the early 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Washington Tapers
Target entity description: The Washington Tapers were a short-lived professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., that competed in the early 1960s.
  • A. New Washington
    New Washington is a coastal municipality in the province of Aklan in the Philippines, known for its fishing industry and proximity to Kalibo and Boracay.
  • B. Pendleton
    Pendleton is an inner-city district of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, known for its mix of residential areas, retail developments, and post-war social housing.
  • C. Pendleton
    Pendleton is a small city in northeastern Oregon known for its historic downtown, Native American cultural heritage, and the annual Pendleton Round-Up rodeo.
  • D. Washington (Blue)
    Washington (Blue) is a former Chicago Transit Authority subway station on the Blue Line that once served downtown Chicago beneath Dearborn Street.
  • E. Takoma
    Takoma is the namesake area whose name was adopted by the city of Takoma Park, Maryland.
  • 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_69d6aa8081448190a9324184f2bd1c26 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d733eea03c8190a68f4d4f89f497a2 completed April 9, 2026, 5:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de855799748190b51745a198daa8d0 completed April 14, 2026, 6:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de8955b9d8819086ff98efbff6c7a0 completed April 14, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de8f4a318c819086559fd53506ab29 completed April 14, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:18 p.m.