Triple

T12994299
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Waterloo Hawks E321993 entity
Predicate playedIn P2170 FINISHED
Object National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951
The National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951 was a short-lived early professional basketball league in the United States that operated for a single season before folding.
 E1013303 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: National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951 | Statement: [Waterloo Hawks, playedIn, National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951
Context triple: [Waterloo Hawks, playedIn, National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951]
  • A. American Basketball League (1925–1955)
    The American Basketball League (1925–1955) was an early professional basketball league in the United States that served as a key predecessor to later major pro leagues and helped shape the development of the sport.
  • B. American Basketball League (1944–1947)
    The American Basketball League (1944–1947) was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that operated in the mid-1940s and featured several prominent early franchises.
  • C. 1950–51 NBA season
    The 1950–51 NBA season was the league’s fifth season, notable for the Rochester Royals winning the championship and for being part of the NBA’s early formative years following the BAA–NBL merger.
  • D. American Basketball League
    The American Basketball League was a short-lived professional women's basketball league in the United States that operated in the mid-1990s as an early competitor to the WNBA.
  • E. American Basketball League
    The American Basketball League was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that operated in the early 1960s as an alternative to the NBA.
  • 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: National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951
Triple: [Waterloo Hawks, playedIn, National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951]
Generated description
The National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951 was a short-lived early professional basketball league in the United States that operated for a single season before folding.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951
Target entity description: The National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951 was a short-lived early professional basketball league in the United States that operated for a single season before folding.
  • A. American Basketball League (1925–1955)
    The American Basketball League (1925–1955) was an early professional basketball league in the United States that served as a key predecessor to later major pro leagues and helped shape the development of the sport.
  • B. American Basketball League (1944–1947)
    The American Basketball League (1944–1947) was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that operated in the mid-1940s and featured several prominent early franchises.
  • C. 1950–51 NBA season
    The 1950–51 NBA season was the league’s fifth season, notable for the Rochester Royals winning the championship and for being part of the NBA’s early formative years following the BAA–NBL merger.
  • D. American Basketball League
    The American Basketball League was a short-lived professional women's basketball league in the United States that operated in the mid-1990s as an early competitor to the WNBA.
  • E. American Basketball League
    The American Basketball League was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that operated in the early 1960s as an alternative to the NBA.
  • 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_69d8076479b8819090afce3591939cdf completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e7877f481908a03f1077600e58a completed April 10, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6b8fd5f44819087df1163b8f703ec completed May 3, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b9dcd5cc8190bff5bd153c007866 completed May 3, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6bb337b708190a874cec01d588236 completed May 3, 2026, 3:04 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:44 p.m.