Triple

T15597755
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mississippi State Bulldogs football E374949 entity
Predicate notableCoach P550 FINISHED
Object Sylvester Croom
Sylvester Croom is a former American football coach and player best known for becoming the first African American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference.
E1166509 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: Sylvester Croom | Statement: [Mississippi State Bulldogs football, notableCoach, Sylvester Croom]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvester Croom
Context triple: [Mississippi State Bulldogs football, notableCoach, Sylvester Croom]
  • A. Ed Bolden
    Ed Bolden was a pioneering African American baseball executive and key architect of early Negro league baseball in the United States.
  • B. Virgil Samms
    Virgil Samms is a central protagonist in E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman science fiction series, serving as the first Galactic Patrol Lensman and a key architect of interstellar law and order.
  • C. Orlando Woodward
    Orlando Woodward is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Woodward surname, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
  • D. Jules Bledsoe
    Jules Bledsoe was an American baritone singer and actor best remembered as an early and influential African American star of musical theatre and opera in the early 20th century.
  • E. Saunders Terrell
    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
  • 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: Sylvester Croom
Triple: [Mississippi State Bulldogs football, notableCoach, Sylvester Croom]
Generated description
Sylvester Croom is a former American football coach and player best known for becoming the first African American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvester Croom
Target entity description: Sylvester Croom is a former American football coach and player best known for becoming the first African American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference.
  • A. Ed Bolden
    Ed Bolden was a pioneering African American baseball executive and key architect of early Negro league baseball in the United States.
  • B. Virgil Samms
    Virgil Samms is a central protagonist in E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman science fiction series, serving as the first Galactic Patrol Lensman and a key architect of interstellar law and order.
  • C. Orlando Woodward
    Orlando Woodward is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Woodward surname, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
  • D. Jules Bledsoe
    Jules Bledsoe was an American baritone singer and actor best remembered as an early and influential African American star of musical theatre and opera in the early 20th century.
  • E. Saunders Terrell
    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
  • 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_69d85cce25008190b13b52745fbd719b completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e609ab081909feb486a57439960 completed April 16, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff56ccc40c8190a3b1339404e6897f completed May 9, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff581a25008190b7be08a93d798522 completed May 9, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff58ad35108190a0549d3d81e6851e completed May 9, 2026, 3:54 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:12 a.m.