Triple

T15136915
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MAC Men's Basketball Tournament E361577 entity
Predicate isPostseasonFor P50674 FINISHED
Object Mid-American Conference men's basketball regular season
The Mid-American Conference men's basketball regular season is the conference's slate of league games that determines standings, seeding, and champions prior to the MAC Men's Basketball Tournament.
E1141943 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Mid-American Conference men's basketball regular season | Statement: [MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, isPostseasonFor, Mid-American Conference men's basketball regular season]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mid-American Conference men's basketball regular season
Context triple: [MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, isPostseasonFor, Mid-American Conference men's basketball regular season]
  • A. Mid-American Conference tournament titles
    The Mid-American Conference tournament titles are championship honors awarded annually to the men's basketball team that wins the conference's postseason tournament, securing both a league crown and an automatic NCAA Tournament berth.
  • B. Mid-American Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
    The Mid-American Conference Women's Basketball Tournament is the annual postseason championship event that determines the conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.
  • C. Mid-American Conference
    The Mid-American Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern U.S. universities and competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
  • D. Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament
    The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament is the annual postseason championship event for the MAAC, determining the conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
  • E. Midwestern Collegiate Conference
    The Midwestern Collegiate Conference, later known as the Horizon League, was an NCAA Division I athletic conference primarily composed of Midwestern universities.
  • 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: Mid-American Conference men's basketball regular season
Triple: [MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, isPostseasonFor, Mid-American Conference men's basketball regular season]
Generated description
The Mid-American Conference men's basketball regular season is the conference's slate of league games that determines standings, seeding, and champions prior to the MAC Men's Basketball Tournament.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mid-American Conference men's basketball regular season
Target entity description: The Mid-American Conference men's basketball regular season is the conference's slate of league games that determines standings, seeding, and champions prior to the MAC Men's Basketball Tournament.
  • A. Mid-American Conference tournament titles
    The Mid-American Conference tournament titles are championship honors awarded annually to the men's basketball team that wins the conference's postseason tournament, securing both a league crown and an automatic NCAA Tournament berth.
  • B. Mid-American Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
    The Mid-American Conference Women's Basketball Tournament is the annual postseason championship event that determines the conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.
  • C. Mid-American Conference
    The Mid-American Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising midwestern U.S. universities and competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
  • D. Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament
    The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament is the annual postseason championship event for the MAAC, determining the conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
  • E. Midwestern Collegiate Conference
    The Midwestern Collegiate Conference, later known as the Horizon League, was an NCAA Division I athletic conference primarily composed of Midwestern universities.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: isPostseasonFor
Context triple: [MAC Men's Basketball Tournament, isPostseasonFor, Mid-American Conference men's basketball regular season]
  • A. isPostseasonGame
    Indicates that the game takes place during a postseason or playoff phase rather than the regular season.
  • B. hasPostseasonEvent chosen
    Indicates that an entity is associated with or participates in a postseason event, such as playoffs or championships, following a regular season.
  • C. includesPostseasonIn
    Indicates that a time period, schedule, or dataset explicitly encompasses postseason games or events in addition to the regular season.
  • D. isInauguralPostseason
    Indicates that the postseason event or appearance is the first one ever held or participated in by the relevant entity.
  • E. hasPostseasonAccess
    Indicates that an entity is granted the right or eligibility to participate in postseason or playoff competitions.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69d85a06450081909c5a14ea9851a15e completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e005b3f6f48190b1ed7c7b28feb7a6 completed April 15, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fec88096f081908897fd1c5362c274 completed May 9, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69feca4643dc8190af82f6c2f9133e2a completed May 9, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fecb0459008190888043ab25bae96b completed May 9, 2026, 5:49 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69deb9713fe881909dec2fd3f6c84b39 completed April 14, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:07 a.m.