Triple

T12161187
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom LaGarde E289708 entity
Predicate playedInSeason P14029 FINISHED
Object 1977–78 NBA season
The 1977–78 NBA season was the league campaign in which the Washington Bullets won their first championship, defeating the Seattle SuperSonics in the NBA Finals.
E365302 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: 1977–78 NBA season | Statement: [Tom LaGarde, playedInSeason, 1977–78 NBA season]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1977–78 NBA season
Context triple: [Tom LaGarde, playedInSeason, 1977–78 NBA season]
  • A. 1987–88 NBA season
    The 1987–88 NBA season was a professional basketball campaign notable for featuring stars like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and culminating in the Los Angeles Lakers winning back-to-back championships.
  • B. 1977 NBA Finals
    The 1977 NBA Finals was the championship series in which the Portland Trail Blazers, led by coach Jack Ramsay and star center Bill Walton, defeated the Philadelphia 76ers to win the franchise’s first NBA title.
  • C. 1970–71 NBA season
    The 1970–71 NBA season was the year the Milwaukee Bucks, led by stars Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson, captured their first NBA championship.
  • D. 1978 NBA Finals
    The 1978 NBA Finals was the championship series in which the Washington Bullets defeated the Seattle SuperSonics to win their first NBA title.
  • E. 1970 NBA Finals
    The 1970 NBA Finals was the championship series in which the New York Knicks, led by an injured but inspirational Willis Reed, defeated the Los Angeles Lakers to win their first NBA title.
  • 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: 1977–78 NBA season
Triple: [Tom LaGarde, playedInSeason, 1977–78 NBA season]
Generated description
The 1977–78 NBA season was the league campaign in which the Washington Bullets won their first championship, defeating the Seattle SuperSonics in the NBA Finals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1977–78 NBA season
Target entity description: The 1977–78 NBA season was the league campaign in which the Washington Bullets won their first championship, defeating the Seattle SuperSonics in the NBA Finals.
  • A. 1987–88 NBA season
    The 1987–88 NBA season was a professional basketball campaign notable for featuring stars like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and culminating in the Los Angeles Lakers winning back-to-back championships.
  • B. 1977 NBA Finals
    The 1977 NBA Finals was the championship series in which the Portland Trail Blazers, led by coach Jack Ramsay and star center Bill Walton, defeated the Philadelphia 76ers to win the franchise’s first NBA title.
  • C. 1970–71 NBA season
    The 1970–71 NBA season was the year the Milwaukee Bucks, led by stars Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson, captured their first NBA championship.
  • D. 1978 NBA Finals chosen
    The 1978 NBA Finals was the championship series in which the Washington Bullets defeated the Seattle SuperSonics to win their first NBA title.
  • E. 1970 NBA Finals
    The 1970 NBA Finals was the championship series in which the New York Knicks, led by an injured but inspirational Willis Reed, defeated the Los Angeles Lakers to win their first NBA title.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d6ab4d6c00819095a9a7c35de83cfb completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915c395e48190a16e97fd29787a51 completed April 10, 2026, 3:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f6a0baf0819094e90b7e92b979d4 completed May 2, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f600b7385881909ddb86a1d39ff5d4 completed May 2, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f601ef0a9c8190ac922562a8856def completed May 2, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.