Triple

T1477667
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Providence Steamrollers E30879 entity
Predicate playedInSeason P14029 FINISHED
Object 1947–48 BAA season
The 1947–48 BAA season was the second season of the Basketball Association of America, a predecessor to the NBA, featuring teams such as the Providence Steamrollers competing for the league championship.
E169678 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: 1947–48 BAA season | Statement: [Providence Steamrollers, playedInSeason, 1947–48 BAA season]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1947–48 BAA season
Context triple: [Providence Steamrollers, playedInSeason, 1947–48 BAA season]
  • A. 1946–47 BAA season
    The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural professional basketball campaign of the league that would later become the National Basketball Association (NBA).
  • B. 1948–49 BAA season
    The 1948–49 BAA season was the final campaign of the Basketball Association of America before it merged with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).
  • C. 1947 BAA Finals
    The 1947 BAA Finals was the inaugural championship series of the Basketball Association of America, later recognized as the first NBA Finals.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 1967–68 ABA season
    The 1967–68 ABA season was the inaugural campaign of the American Basketball Association, marking the league’s first year of competition and the debut of its original franchises.
  • 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: 1947–48 BAA season
Triple: [Providence Steamrollers, playedInSeason, 1947–48 BAA season]
Generated description
The 1947–48 BAA season was the second season of the Basketball Association of America, a predecessor to the NBA, featuring teams such as the Providence Steamrollers competing for the league championship.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1947–48 BAA season
Target entity description: The 1947–48 BAA season was the second season of the Basketball Association of America, a predecessor to the NBA, featuring teams such as the Providence Steamrollers competing for the league championship.
  • A. 1946–47 BAA season
    The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural professional basketball campaign of the league that would later become the National Basketball Association (NBA).
  • B. 1948–49 BAA season
    The 1948–49 BAA season was the final campaign of the Basketball Association of America before it merged with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).
  • C. 1947 BAA Finals
    The 1947 BAA Finals was the inaugural championship series of the Basketball Association of America, later recognized as the first NBA Finals.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 1967–68 ABA season
    The 1967–68 ABA season was the inaugural campaign of the American Basketball Association, marking the league’s first year of competition and the debut of its original franchises.
  • 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_69a498fe55a88190ab7f9e40ace88e49 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c605d4c0819088ab06678b2ba6f3 completed March 1, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad15add78c8190843efd75bbe8423f completed March 8, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad184626f48190a15ee8bb4f9f6f7c completed March 8, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad18dca6b48190a63b67a7823611c8 completed March 8, 2026, 6:36 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:11 p.m.