Triple
T1477684
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Providence Steamrollers |
E30879
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableFact |
P8229
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Nat Hickey played for the team at age 45, one of the oldest players in NBA/BAA history
The Providence Steamrollers were a short-lived professional basketball team in the Basketball Association of America (a precursor to the NBA) based in Providence, Rhode Island, during the late 1940s.
|
E169679
|
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: Nat Hickey played for the team at age 45, one of the oldest players in NBA/BAA history | Statement: [Providence Steamrollers, notableFact, Nat Hickey played for the team at age 45, one of the oldest players in NBA/BAA history]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nat Hickey played for the team at age 45, one of the oldest players in NBA/BAA history Context triple: [Providence Steamrollers, notableFact, Nat Hickey played for the team at age 45, one of the oldest players in NBA/BAA history]
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A.
Maye
Maye is the first name of Maye Musk, a Canadian-South African model and dietitian known for her long-running fashion career and as the mother of entrepreneur Elon Musk.
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B.
Earl Lloyd
Earl Lloyd was an American professional basketball player best known as the first African American to play in an NBA game.
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C.
Tom Heinsohn
Tom Heinsohn was a Hall of Fame player and coach for the Boston Celtics who later became a longtime, beloved television commentator for the team.
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D.
Turquoise Erving
Turquoise Erving is best known as the former wife of legendary American basketball player Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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E.
Reggie Lewis
Reggie Lewis was an All-Star shooting guard for the Boston Celtics whose promising NBA career was tragically cut short by his sudden death at age 27.
- 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: Nat Hickey played for the team at age 45, one of the oldest players in NBA/BAA history Triple: [Providence Steamrollers, notableFact, Nat Hickey played for the team at age 45, one of the oldest players in NBA/BAA history]
Generated description
The Providence Steamrollers were a short-lived professional basketball team in the Basketball Association of America (a precursor to the NBA) based in Providence, Rhode Island, during the late 1940s.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nat Hickey played for the team at age 45, one of the oldest players in NBA/BAA history Target entity description: The Providence Steamrollers were a short-lived professional basketball team in the Basketball Association of America (a precursor to the NBA) based in Providence, Rhode Island, during the late 1940s.
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A.
Maye
Maye is the first name of Maye Musk, a Canadian-South African model and dietitian known for her long-running fashion career and as the mother of entrepreneur Elon Musk.
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B.
Earl Lloyd
Earl Lloyd was an American professional basketball player best known as the first African American to play in an NBA game.
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C.
Tom Heinsohn
Tom Heinsohn was a Hall of Fame player and coach for the Boston Celtics who later became a longtime, beloved television commentator for the team.
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D.
Turquoise Erving
Turquoise Erving is best known as the former wife of legendary American basketball player Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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E.
Reggie Lewis
Reggie Lewis was an All-Star shooting guard for the Boston Celtics whose promising NBA career was tragically cut short by his sudden death at age 27.
- 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.