Triple

T13184669
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spalding E313816 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Albert Goodwill Spalding
Albert Goodwill Spalding was a 19th-century American professional baseball player, manager, executive, and sporting-goods magnate who helped popularize baseball and co-founded the Spalding sporting goods company.
E1026977 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: Albert Goodwill Spalding | Statement: [Spalding, foundedBy, Albert Goodwill Spalding]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Albert Goodwill Spalding
Context triple: [Spalding, foundedBy, Albert Goodwill Spalding]
  • A. Christopher Mathewson
    Christopher "Christy" Mathewson was an early 20th-century American Major League Baseball pitcher, widely regarded as one of the greatest pitchers in the sport's history and a charter member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • B. Melville Fuller
    Melville Fuller was the eighth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1888 to 1910 and presiding over several landmark decisions during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
  • C. Thomas Spalding
    Thomas Spalding was a prominent early 19th-century Georgia planter and politician known for his leadership in agriculture and public affairs, for whom Spalding County, Georgia, is named.
  • D. Bill Richmond
    Bill Richmond was an American comedy writer best known for co-writing several Jerry Lewis films and contributing to classic television shows like The Carol Burnett Show.
  • E. James Naismith
    James Naismith was a Canadian physical educator and coach best known as the inventor of the game of basketball in 1891.
  • 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: Albert Goodwill Spalding
Triple: [Spalding, foundedBy, Albert Goodwill Spalding]
Generated description
Albert Goodwill Spalding was a 19th-century American professional baseball player, manager, executive, and sporting-goods magnate who helped popularize baseball and co-founded the Spalding sporting goods company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Albert Goodwill Spalding
Target entity description: Albert Goodwill Spalding was a 19th-century American professional baseball player, manager, executive, and sporting-goods magnate who helped popularize baseball and co-founded the Spalding sporting goods company.
  • A. Christopher Mathewson
    Christopher "Christy" Mathewson was an early 20th-century American Major League Baseball pitcher, widely regarded as one of the greatest pitchers in the sport's history and a charter member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • B. Melville Fuller
    Melville Fuller was the eighth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1888 to 1910 and presiding over several landmark decisions during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
  • C. Thomas Spalding
    Thomas Spalding was a prominent early 19th-century Georgia planter and politician known for his leadership in agriculture and public affairs, for whom Spalding County, Georgia, is named.
  • D. Bill Richmond
    Bill Richmond was an American comedy writer best known for co-writing several Jerry Lewis films and contributing to classic television shows like The Carol Burnett Show.
  • E. James Naismith
    James Naismith was a Canadian physical educator and coach best known as the inventor of the game of basketball in 1891.
  • 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_69d806ae1e08819090d95bfe1538cc17 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98c4a0b0081908027bf77442ff5ff completed April 10, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6f5f307408190afd0df16a417c456 completed May 3, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6f707d9e48190b772520ca9f4ac2c completed May 3, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6f85149cc8190adf68387475d3286 completed May 3, 2026, 7:25 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:15 p.m.