Triple

T1168072
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball E24845 entity
Predicate formerConference P3610 FINISHED
Object Midwestern Collegiate Conference
The Midwestern Collegiate Conference, later known as the Horizon League, was an NCAA Division I athletic conference primarily composed of Midwestern universities.
 E144552 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: Midwestern Collegiate Conference | Statement: [Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, formerConference, Midwestern Collegiate Conference]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Midwestern Collegiate Conference
Context triple: [Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, formerConference, Midwestern Collegiate Conference]
  • A. Great Midwest Conference
    The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
  • B. Indiana Collegiate Conference
    The Indiana Collegiate Conference was a mid-20th-century NCAA athletic conference composed primarily of Indiana-based colleges and universities.
  • C. Missouri Valley Conference
    The Missouri Valley Conference is one of the oldest NCAA Division I athletic conferences in the United States, historically known for its strong basketball programs and Midwestern membership.
  • D. Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
    The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed primarily of private liberal arts colleges in Minnesota.
  • E. Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
    The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference featuring universities primarily located in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
  • 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: Midwestern Collegiate Conference
Triple: [Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, formerConference, Midwestern Collegiate Conference]
Generated description
The Midwestern Collegiate Conference, later known as the Horizon League, was an NCAA Division I athletic conference primarily composed of Midwestern universities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Midwestern Collegiate Conference
Target entity description: The Midwestern Collegiate Conference, later known as the Horizon League, was an NCAA Division I athletic conference primarily composed of Midwestern universities.
  • A. Great Midwest Conference
    The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
  • B. Indiana Collegiate Conference
    The Indiana Collegiate Conference was a mid-20th-century NCAA athletic conference composed primarily of Indiana-based colleges and universities.
  • C. Missouri Valley Conference
    The Missouri Valley Conference is one of the oldest NCAA Division I athletic conferences in the United States, historically known for its strong basketball programs and Midwestern membership.
  • D. Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
    The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed primarily of private liberal arts colleges in Minnesota.
  • E. Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
    The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference featuring universities primarily located in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
  • 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_69a494082a7c819095004f423f294a64 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bccef84481908864e819884af86c completed March 1, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac99730c408190a705ca67a6724778 completed March 7, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9a13e9548190ae1fbfeba3326cd5 completed March 7, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9a96d4f081908e608a3f247bbfb2 completed March 7, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.