Triple

T15282475
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1978 NBA Finals E365302 entity
Predicate notableFact P8229 FINISHED
Object Washington Bullets became the third team to win the NBA Finals after trailing 3–2 in the series
The Washington Bullets were an NBA franchise (now the Washington Wizards) that captured the 1978 championship, highlighted by a historic comeback in the NBA Finals.
E1148640 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: Washington Bullets became the third team to win the NBA Finals after trailing 3–2 in the series | Statement: [1978 NBA Finals, notableFact, Washington Bullets became the third team to win the NBA Finals after trailing 3–2 in the series]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Washington Bullets became the third team to win the NBA Finals after trailing 3–2 in the series
Context triple: [1978 NBA Finals, notableFact, Washington Bullets became the third team to win the NBA Finals after trailing 3–2 in the series]
  • A. Dream Team
    Dream Team is a British television drama series centered on the players and staff of a fictional Premier League football club.
  • B. Dream Team
    Dream Team is the popular nickname of Nigeria’s under-23 national football team, renowned for producing many of the country’s brightest football talents and achieving historic Olympic success.
  • C. Big Three (Boston Celtics)
    The Big Three (Boston Celtics) refers to the star trio of Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and Paul Pierce who led the Celtics to renewed prominence and an NBA championship in the late 2000s.
  • D. The Heat
    The Heat is a 2013 buddy-cop comedy film starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as mismatched law enforcement partners.
  • E. The Heat
    The Heat is Toni Braxton's third studio album, noted for its blend of R&B and pop and for spawning the hit single "He Wasn’t Man Enough."
  • 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: Washington Bullets became the third team to win the NBA Finals after trailing 3–2 in the series
Triple: [1978 NBA Finals, notableFact, Washington Bullets became the third team to win the NBA Finals after trailing 3–2 in the series]
Generated description
The Washington Bullets were an NBA franchise (now the Washington Wizards) that captured the 1978 championship, highlighted by a historic comeback in the NBA Finals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Washington Bullets became the third team to win the NBA Finals after trailing 3–2 in the series
Target entity description: The Washington Bullets were an NBA franchise (now the Washington Wizards) that captured the 1978 championship, highlighted by a historic comeback in the NBA Finals.
  • A. Dream Team
    Dream Team is a British television drama series centered on the players and staff of a fictional Premier League football club.
  • B. Dream Team
    Dream Team is the popular nickname of Nigeria’s under-23 national football team, renowned for producing many of the country’s brightest football talents and achieving historic Olympic success.
  • C. Big Three (Boston Celtics)
    The Big Three (Boston Celtics) refers to the star trio of Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and Paul Pierce who led the Celtics to renewed prominence and an NBA championship in the late 2000s.
  • D. The Heat
    The Heat is a 2013 buddy-cop comedy film starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as mismatched law enforcement partners.
  • E. The Heat
    The Heat is Toni Braxton's third studio album, noted for its blend of R&B and pop and for spawning the hit single "He Wasn’t Man Enough."
  • 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_69d85a103d9081908c1ea6c4c73ac8e3 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e00e51f82081909f63d14b589d5587 completed April 15, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69feef773bc4819083c9a86543659aa9 completed May 9, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fef1f731808190957aaa88a86b194c completed May 9, 2026, 8:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fef37d1b7081908c5b1be109f590d9 completed May 9, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:15 a.m.