Triple

T1594907
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject La Salle Explorers men's basketball E34256 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Tim Legler
Tim Legler is a former NBA shooting guard and current basketball analyst best known for his sharpshooting and work on ESPN.
E238318 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: Tim Legler | Statement: [La Salle Explorers men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Tim Legler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tim Legler
Context triple: [La Salle Explorers men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Tim Legler]
  • A. Tom Leppert
    Tom Leppert is an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, and later ran for the U.S. Senate.
  • B. Tom Luddy
    Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
  • C. Lee Garmes
    Lee Garmes was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative lighting and camera techniques in early Hollywood cinema, including his Academy Award-winning work on "Shanghai Express."
  • D. Ray Cusick
    Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • E. David Scearce
    David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
  • 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: Tim Legler
Triple: [La Salle Explorers men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Tim Legler]
Generated description
Tim Legler is a former NBA shooting guard and current basketball analyst best known for his sharpshooting and work on ESPN.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tim Legler
Target entity description: Tim Legler is a former NBA shooting guard and current basketball analyst best known for his sharpshooting and work on ESPN.
  • A. Tom Leppert
    Tom Leppert is an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, and later ran for the U.S. Senate.
  • B. Tom Luddy
    Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
  • C. Lee Garmes
    Lee Garmes was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative lighting and camera techniques in early Hollywood cinema, including his Academy Award-winning work on "Shanghai Express."
  • D. Ray Cusick
    Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • E. David Scearce
    David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
  • 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_69a885fdcb9c819081ce6f0b8cd477dd completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a9092aed308190a0198a0fb977a9e5 completed March 5, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae58ac128881909a2e75524682c1c9 completed March 9, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5944543081909622e93012a31766 completed March 9, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae59d0fb688190858c764517aea035 completed March 9, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.