Triple

T1168396
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Butler Bulldogs men's basketball E24852 entity
Predicate notableCoach P550 FINISHED
Object Tony Hinkle
Tony Hinkle was a legendary American coach and innovator in college basketball, best known for his long and influential tenure at Butler University and for helping popularize the orange basketball.
E154536 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: Tony Hinkle | Statement: [Butler Bulldogs men's basketball, notableCoach, Tony Hinkle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Hinkle
Context triple: [Butler Bulldogs men's basketball, notableCoach, Tony Hinkle]
  • A. Don Waddell
    Don Waddell is an American ice hockey executive best known for serving as the longtime general manager of the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers and later holding senior management roles with other NHL franchises.
  • B. Frank McGuire
    Frank McGuire was a Hall of Fame American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of North Carolina to the 1957 NCAA championship and revitalizing multiple major programs.
  • C. Fred LaRue
    Fred LaRue was a Republican political operative best known for his secretive role in Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and involvement in the Watergate scandal.
  • D. Al McGuire
    Al McGuire was a Hall of Fame American college basketball coach best known for leading Marquette University to the 1977 NCAA championship and later becoming a popular television commentator.
  • E. Phog Allen
    Phog Allen was a pioneering American basketball coach, often called the "Father of Basketball Coaching," who led the University of Kansas program for decades and helped shape the modern game.
  • 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: Tony Hinkle
Triple: [Butler Bulldogs men's basketball, notableCoach, Tony Hinkle]
Generated description
Tony Hinkle was a legendary American coach and innovator in college basketball, best known for his long and influential tenure at Butler University and for helping popularize the orange basketball.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Hinkle
Target entity description: Tony Hinkle was a legendary American coach and innovator in college basketball, best known for his long and influential tenure at Butler University and for helping popularize the orange basketball.
  • A. Don Waddell
    Don Waddell is an American ice hockey executive best known for serving as the longtime general manager of the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers and later holding senior management roles with other NHL franchises.
  • B. Frank McGuire
    Frank McGuire was a Hall of Fame American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of North Carolina to the 1957 NCAA championship and revitalizing multiple major programs.
  • C. Fred LaRue
    Fred LaRue was a Republican political operative best known for his secretive role in Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and involvement in the Watergate scandal.
  • D. Al McGuire
    Al McGuire was a Hall of Fame American college basketball coach best known for leading Marquette University to the 1977 NCAA championship and later becoming a popular television commentator.
  • E. Phog Allen
    Phog Allen was a pioneering American basketball coach, often called the "Father of Basketball Coaching," who led the University of Kansas program for decades and helped shape the modern game.
  • 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_69acc61497948190891228f1a623668e completed March 8, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc7fd0e2081908a75d58c68c51e28 completed March 8, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc8c9b03c819093ba0cd4deb2aa48 completed March 8, 2026, 12:54 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.