Triple

T12994310
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Waterloo Hawks E321993 entity
Predicate formerLeague P5927 FINISHED
Object National Professional Basketball League
The National Professional Basketball League was a short-lived early 1950s American professional basketball league that briefly served as an alternative to the NBA.
E1020860 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 | Statement: [Waterloo Hawks, formerLeague, National Professional Basketball League]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National Professional Basketball League
Context triple: [Waterloo Hawks, formerLeague, National Professional Basketball League]
  • A. National Basketball League
    The National Basketball League was a professional basketball league in the United States that operated primarily in the Midwest from the 1930s until it merged with the Basketball Association of America in 1949 to form the NBA.
  • B. National Basketball League
    The National Basketball League is Australia's premier professional men's basketball competition, featuring teams from across the country and occasionally New Zealand.
  • C. National Basketball League
    The National Basketball League is Lithuania's second-tier professional basketball competition, serving as the primary league below the top-division Lithuanian Basketball League.
  • D. National Basketball Association
    The National Basketball Association is the premier professional men's basketball league in North America, featuring top teams and players and widely regarded as the highest level of basketball competition in the world.
  • E. International Basketball Association
    The International Basketball Association was a professional basketball league co-founded by sports entrepreneur Dennis Murphy, known for his role in creating several innovative sports leagues.
  • 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
Triple: [Waterloo Hawks, formerLeague, National Professional Basketball League]
Generated description
The National Professional Basketball League was a short-lived early 1950s American professional basketball league that briefly served as an alternative to the NBA.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National Professional Basketball League
Target entity description: The National Professional Basketball League was a short-lived early 1950s American professional basketball league that briefly served as an alternative to the NBA.
  • A. National Basketball League
    The National Basketball League was a professional basketball league in the United States that operated primarily in the Midwest from the 1930s until it merged with the Basketball Association of America in 1949 to form the NBA.
  • B. National Basketball League
    The National Basketball League is Australia's premier professional men's basketball competition, featuring teams from across the country and occasionally New Zealand.
  • C. National Basketball League
    The National Basketball League is Lithuania's second-tier professional basketball competition, serving as the primary league below the top-division Lithuanian Basketball League.
  • D. National Basketball Association
    The National Basketball Association is the premier professional men's basketball league in North America, featuring top teams and players and widely regarded as the highest level of basketball competition in the world.
  • E. International Basketball Association
    The International Basketball Association was a professional basketball league co-founded by sports entrepreneur Dennis Murphy, known for his role in creating several innovative sports leagues.
  • 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_69f6d5f4bedc81909b8dfa79a842e12d completed May 3, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6da5695508190a96ca16a4e5c01ee completed May 3, 2026, 5:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6daeae96081908f6d9cda3ff7f961 completed May 3, 2026, 5:19 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:44 p.m.