Triple

T16449031
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject LaMelo Ball E399503 entity
Predicate mother P120 FINISHED
Object Tina Ball
Tina Ball is an American former college basketball player and sports personality best known as the matriarch of the Ball family and mother of professional basketball players Lonzo, LiAngelo, and LaMelo Ball.
E1213229 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: Tina Ball | Statement: [LaMelo Ball, mother, Tina Ball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tina Ball
Context triple: [LaMelo Ball, mother, Tina Ball]
  • A. Tonya Pinkins
    Tonya Pinkins is a Tony Award–winning American actress and singer known for her powerful performances on Broadway, in film, and on television.
  • B. Michelle Akers
    Michelle Akers is a legendary American soccer player widely regarded as one of the greatest women’s footballers of all time and a key figure in the early dominance of the U.S. women’s national team.
  • C. Tina Thompson
    Tina Thompson is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and four-time WNBA champion, widely regarded as one of the league’s greatest forwards.
  • D. Carla Reese
    Carla Reese is a nurse and recurring character on the television series "ER," known for her complex personal and professional relationship with Dr. Peter Benton.
  • E. Nellie Biles
    Nellie Biles is an American nurse and the adoptive mother of Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles.
  • 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: Tina Ball
Triple: [LaMelo Ball, mother, Tina Ball]
Generated description
Tina Ball is an American former college basketball player and sports personality best known as the matriarch of the Ball family and mother of professional basketball players Lonzo, LiAngelo, and LaMelo Ball.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tina Ball
Target entity description: Tina Ball is an American former college basketball player and sports personality best known as the matriarch of the Ball family and mother of professional basketball players Lonzo, LiAngelo, and LaMelo Ball.
  • A. Tonya Pinkins
    Tonya Pinkins is a Tony Award–winning American actress and singer known for her powerful performances on Broadway, in film, and on television.
  • B. Michelle Akers
    Michelle Akers is a legendary American soccer player widely regarded as one of the greatest women’s footballers of all time and a key figure in the early dominance of the U.S. women’s national team.
  • C. Tina Thompson
    Tina Thompson is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and four-time WNBA champion, widely regarded as one of the league’s greatest forwards.
  • D. Carla Reese
    Carla Reese is a nurse and recurring character on the television series "ER," known for her complex personal and professional relationship with Dr. Peter Benton.
  • E. Nellie Biles
    Nellie Biles is an American nurse and the adoptive mother of Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles.
  • 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_69d87f2c6778819080fcfae53be8f12a completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32cdee44c8190ae0df20c58ff7558 completed April 18, 2026, 7:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a004594a4508190be08f3acfff36ab0 completed May 10, 2026, 8:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0046833e208190a0e1e37fc24c09e0 completed May 10, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00471604f88190b7cc58a77b861585 completed May 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:10 a.m.