Triple

T1601463
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elam Ending E34401 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Nick Elam
Nick Elam is an American educator and basketball strategist best known for creating the "Elam Ending," an alternative game-ending format used in various basketball competitions.
 E182888 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: Nick Elam | Statement: [Elam Ending, namedAfter, Nick Elam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nick Elam
Context triple: [Elam Ending, namedAfter, Nick Elam]
  • A. Don Nicholl
    Don Nicholl was a British-born television writer and producer best known for co-creating influential American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • B. Christopher Crawford
    Christopher Crawford was the adopted son of Hollywood actress Joan Crawford, later known for his estranged relationship with her and his involvement in the controversies surrounding her legacy.
  • C. Paul Darrow
    Paul Darrow was the son of famed American lawyer Clarence Darrow and a businessman who managed many of his father's financial affairs.
  • D. John Paul Lucas
    John Paul Lucas is an American architect best known for co-designing the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • E. Jack Briggs
    Jack Briggs was an American actor best known for his marriage to Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
  • 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: Nick Elam
Triple: [Elam Ending, namedAfter, Nick Elam]
Generated description
Nick Elam is an American educator and basketball strategist best known for creating the "Elam Ending," an alternative game-ending format used in various basketball competitions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nick Elam
Target entity description: Nick Elam is an American educator and basketball strategist best known for creating the "Elam Ending," an alternative game-ending format used in various basketball competitions.
  • A. Don Nicholl
    Don Nicholl was a British-born television writer and producer best known for co-creating influential American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • B. Christopher Crawford
    Christopher Crawford was the adopted son of Hollywood actress Joan Crawford, later known for his estranged relationship with her and his involvement in the controversies surrounding her legacy.
  • C. Paul Darrow
    Paul Darrow was the son of famed American lawyer Clarence Darrow and a businessman who managed many of his father's financial affairs.
  • D. John Paul Lucas
    John Paul Lucas is an American architect best known for co-designing the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • E. Jack Briggs
    Jack Briggs was an American actor best known for his marriage to Hollywood star Ginger Rogers.
  • 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_69a885fea6a481909fe83ba6441f1774 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a9094b7b3c8190a5b08699e07a770f completed March 5, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad51bcdebc81909520786c560598b6 completed March 8, 2026, 10:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad52c9e3e8819094a91530ec91541c completed March 8, 2026, 10:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad5330a9048190bd07e118c09d7eae completed March 8, 2026, 10:45 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.