Triple

T15224228
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steve Bartman E363834 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object “Curse of the Billy Goat” narrative E74007 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: “Curse of the Billy Goat” narrative | Statement: [Steve Bartman, associatedWith, “Curse of the Billy Goat” narrative]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Curse of the Billy Goat” narrative
Context triple: [Steve Bartman, associatedWith, “Curse of the Billy Goat” narrative]
  • A. Curse of the Billy Goat chosen
    The Curse of the Billy Goat was a long-standing superstition blamed for the Chicago Cubs’ decades-long championship drought, said to have begun in 1945 when a tavern owner and his pet goat were ejected from Wrigley Field.
  • B. Curse of the Bambino
    Curse of the Bambino is the popular superstition that blamed the Boston Red Sox’s 86-year World Series championship drought on their 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
  • C. Chicago’s Very Own
    Chicago’s Very Own is the longtime local branding slogan used by WGN-TV, emphasizing its identity as a Chicago-focused television station.
  • D. Mrs. O'Leary's Cow (Session)
    Mrs. O'Leary's Cow (Session) is a recording session associated with the Beach Boys’ landmark album "SMiLE," capturing work on the song segment often linked to the mythic cow blamed for the Great Chicago Fire.
  • E. Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate (baseball)
    Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate (baseball) is the intense, long-standing college baseball rivalry between the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the University of Georgia Bulldogs.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d85a0ce24c81909c4d3b6475548c95 elicitation completed
NER batch_69e0078a9318819081db3b7bcc28e04f ner completed
NED1 batch_69fedd35ae348190beb1b113bfc66ab3 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m.