Triple

T15550071
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John McSherry E370719 entity
Predicate workedInNLCS P119135 FINISHED
Object 1978 National League Championship Series
The 1978 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies to determine the National League pennant winner for the 1978 season.
E1163235 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: 1978 National League Championship Series | Statement: [John McSherry, workedInNLCS, 1978 National League Championship Series]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1978 National League Championship Series
Context triple: [John McSherry, workedInNLCS, 1978 National League Championship Series]
  • A. 1976 National League Championship Series
    The 1976 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
  • B. 1980 National League Championship Series
    The 1980 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Houston Astros to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
  • C. 1979 National League Championship Series
    The 1979 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff in which the Pittsburgh Pirates swept the Cincinnati Reds to advance to and eventually win the World Series.
  • D. 1970 National League Championship Series
    The 1970 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff in which the Cincinnati Reds swept the Pittsburgh Pirates to advance to the World Series.
  • E. 1987 National League Championship Series
    The 1987 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven Major League Baseball playoff between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
  • 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: 1978 National League Championship Series
Triple: [John McSherry, workedInNLCS, 1978 National League Championship Series]
Generated description
The 1978 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies to determine the National League pennant winner for the 1978 season.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1978 National League Championship Series
Target entity description: The 1978 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies to determine the National League pennant winner for the 1978 season.
  • A. 1976 National League Championship Series
    The 1976 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
  • B. 1980 National League Championship Series
    The 1980 National League Championship Series was Major League Baseball’s best-of-five playoff between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Houston Astros to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
  • C. 1979 National League Championship Series
    The 1979 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff in which the Pittsburgh Pirates swept the Cincinnati Reds to advance to and eventually win the World Series.
  • D. 1970 National League Championship Series
    The 1970 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff in which the Cincinnati Reds swept the Pittsburgh Pirates to advance to the World Series.
  • E. 1987 National League Championship Series
    The 1987 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven Major League Baseball playoff between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants to determine the league’s representative in the World Series.
  • 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_69d85cc6cf40819091f4a5facee1ebe6 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04a93121881909d88ca55a39252ac completed April 16, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff455dfbcc8190a93e90c59b2d3045 completed May 9, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff467e5d6c8190ba3bf6557e683233 completed May 9, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff470912bc8190a42ee312aca55872 completed May 9, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:08 a.m.