Triple

T11415274
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hofstra Pride men's basketball E270474 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Norm Richardson
Norm Richardson is a former American professional basketball player best known for his standout collegiate career at Hofstra University and brief stint in the NBA.
 E944038 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: Norm Richardson | Statement: [Hofstra Pride men's basketball, notablePlayer, Norm Richardson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Norm Richardson
Context triple: [Hofstra Pride men's basketball, notablePlayer, Norm Richardson]
  • A. Karl Richardson
    Karl Richardson is an American recording engineer and producer best known for his work on numerous Bee Gees and Barry Gibb projects.
  • B. John Richardson
    John Richardson was a 19th-century Scottish naturalist and Arctic explorer known for his pioneering work in zoology and taxonomy.
  • C. John Richardson
    John Richardson was a prominent early Canadian businessman and politician who played a key role in establishing the Bank of Montreal in the early 19th century.
  • D. Trip Richardson
    Trip Richardson is a popular high school athlete and the charming eldest son of the Richardson family in Celeste Ng’s novel (and its TV adaptation) Little Fires Everywhere.
  • E. Lee Richardson
    Lee Richardson was a prominent local figure in Garden City, Kansas, whose contributions to the community led to the city’s main zoo being named in his honor.
  • 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: Norm Richardson
Triple: [Hofstra Pride men's basketball, notablePlayer, Norm Richardson]
Generated description
Norm Richardson is a former American professional basketball player best known for his standout collegiate career at Hofstra University and brief stint in the NBA.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Norm Richardson
Target entity description: Norm Richardson is a former American professional basketball player best known for his standout collegiate career at Hofstra University and brief stint in the NBA.
  • A. Karl Richardson
    Karl Richardson is an American recording engineer and producer best known for his work on numerous Bee Gees and Barry Gibb projects.
  • B. John Richardson
    John Richardson was a 19th-century Scottish naturalist and Arctic explorer known for his pioneering work in zoology and taxonomy.
  • C. John Richardson
    John Richardson was a prominent early Canadian businessman and politician who played a key role in establishing the Bank of Montreal in the early 19th century.
  • D. Trip Richardson
    Trip Richardson is a popular high school athlete and the charming eldest son of the Richardson family in Celeste Ng’s novel (and its TV adaptation) Little Fires Everywhere.
  • E. Lee Richardson
    Lee Richardson was a prominent local figure in Garden City, Kansas, whose contributions to the community led to the city’s main zoo being named in his honor.
  • 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_69d6aaddeaa8819088b30ef7b50598c9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d801ae47d0819098123505309c4a68 completed April 9, 2026, 7:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f018963218819097771032a88688af completed April 28, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f01d7ab930819095eaae226ab55b80 completed April 28, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f043ddbfe481908e0c439dbd3e944f completed April 28, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.