Triple

T1578574
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Donovan E33709 entity
Predicate playedFor P2170 FINISHED
Object Rapid City Thrillers
Rapid City Thrillers was a professional basketball team that competed in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
 E178647 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: Rapid City Thrillers | Statement: [Billy Donovan, playedFor, Rapid City Thrillers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rapid City Thrillers
Context triple: [Billy Donovan, playedFor, Rapid City Thrillers]
  • A. Rumble in the Rockies
    Rumble in the Rockies is the college football rivalry game between the University of Colorado Buffaloes and the Utah Utes.
  • B. Stampede City
    Stampede City is a popular nickname for Calgary, Alberta, reflecting its strong association with the annual Calgary Stampede rodeo and exhibition.
  • C. The Fastest Gun Alive
    The Fastest Gun Alive is a 1956 American Western film starring Glenn Ford as a small-town shopkeeper hiding a deadly gunslinging past.
  • D. Broken Trail
    Broken Trail is a 2006 Western miniseries that follows an aging cowboy and his estranged nephew as they escort a herd of horses and rescue a group of Chinese women in the American West.
  • E. Mustangs
    Mustangs is the nickname for the athletic teams representing Southern Methodist University in collegiate sports.
  • 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: Rapid City Thrillers
Triple: [Billy Donovan, playedFor, Rapid City Thrillers]
Generated description
Rapid City Thrillers was a professional basketball team that competed in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rapid City Thrillers
Target entity description: Rapid City Thrillers was a professional basketball team that competed in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • A. Rumble in the Rockies
    Rumble in the Rockies is the college football rivalry game between the University of Colorado Buffaloes and the Utah Utes.
  • B. Stampede City
    Stampede City is a popular nickname for Calgary, Alberta, reflecting its strong association with the annual Calgary Stampede rodeo and exhibition.
  • C. The Fastest Gun Alive
    The Fastest Gun Alive is a 1956 American Western film starring Glenn Ford as a small-town shopkeeper hiding a deadly gunslinging past.
  • D. Broken Trail
    Broken Trail is a 2006 Western miniseries that follows an aging cowboy and his estranged nephew as they escort a herd of horses and rescue a group of Chinese women in the American West.
  • E. Mustangs
    Mustangs is the nickname for the athletic teams representing Southern Methodist University in collegiate sports.
  • 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_69a885f27a4c8190a4622252cdf54c00 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a908d67bd08190afa8c504ed5273ee completed March 5, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad402e1cc48190bb69628bc63d6f4c completed March 8, 2026, 9:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad40e7db808190a94dd9932ea8d6c4 completed March 8, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad417c2ff48190af8e62a015b45c6b completed March 8, 2026, 9:29 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.