Triple

T1662027
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Temple Owls football E35929 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Bernard Pierce
Bernard Pierce is a former American football running back who starred at Temple University before playing in the NFL, most notably for the Baltimore Ravens.
 E190561 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: Bernard Pierce | Statement: [Temple Owls football, notableAlumnus, Bernard Pierce]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bernard Pierce
Context triple: [Temple Owls football, notableAlumnus, Bernard Pierce]
  • A. Luc Longley
    Luc Longley is an Australian former professional basketball center best known for winning three consecutive NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s.
  • B. John Bowers
    John Bowers is a prominent American engineer and physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to photonics and optoelectronics, particularly in the development of high-speed and energy-efficient optical communication technologies.
  • C. John Bryant
    John Bryant is an American professional basketball player and standout center known for his dominant college career at Santa Clara University and subsequent international pro career, particularly in Germany's Basketball Bundesliga.
  • D. Walter Bryan Emery
    Walter Bryan Emery was a prominent British Egyptologist and archaeologist best known for his extensive excavations and research on early dynastic tombs and monuments in Egypt.
  • E. Bobby Morrow
    Bobby Morrow was an American sprinter and three-time Olympic gold medalist renowned for dominating the 100m and 200m events in the mid-1950s.
  • 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: Bernard Pierce
Triple: [Temple Owls football, notableAlumnus, Bernard Pierce]
Generated description
Bernard Pierce is a former American football running back who starred at Temple University before playing in the NFL, most notably for the Baltimore Ravens.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bernard Pierce
Target entity description: Bernard Pierce is a former American football running back who starred at Temple University before playing in the NFL, most notably for the Baltimore Ravens.
  • A. Luc Longley
    Luc Longley is an Australian former professional basketball center best known for winning three consecutive NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s.
  • B. John Bowers
    John Bowers is a prominent American engineer and physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to photonics and optoelectronics, particularly in the development of high-speed and energy-efficient optical communication technologies.
  • C. John Bryant
    John Bryant is an American professional basketball player and standout center known for his dominant college career at Santa Clara University and subsequent international pro career, particularly in Germany's Basketball Bundesliga.
  • D. Walter Bryan Emery
    Walter Bryan Emery was a prominent British Egyptologist and archaeologist best known for his extensive excavations and research on early dynastic tombs and monuments in Egypt.
  • E. Bobby Morrow
    Bobby Morrow was an American sprinter and three-time Olympic gold medalist renowned for dominating the 100m and 200m events in the mid-1950s.
  • 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_69a88606aa808190aa0b421b4271f220 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90ab3bd7081908d15d772b10aebbe completed March 5, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad798680088190a24dd968aab1baf0 completed March 8, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad79e2025881909bd95931293a33c5 completed March 8, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad7a6534608190866b4bf210d888ca completed March 8, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.