Triple

T1691498
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter Alston E36558 entity
Predicate nickname P55 FINISHED
Object Smokey
Smokey was the longtime nickname of Walter Alston, the Hall of Fame manager who led the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers to multiple World Series titles.
 E190985 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: Smokey | Statement: [Walter Alston, nickname, Smokey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Smokey
Context triple: [Walter Alston, nickname, Smokey]
  • A. Smokey
    Smokey is the bluetick coonhound dog who serves as the live mascot for the University of Tennessee Volunteers athletic teams.
  • B. Blaze
    Blaze is the anthropomorphic orange cat mascot of the Portland Trail Blazers NBA team.
  • C. Rufus
    Rufus was a 1970s American funk and R&B band best known for launching Chaka Khan’s career and for hits like “Tell Me Something Good” and “Ain’t Nobody.”
  • D. Gentle Ben
    Gentle Ben is a 1960s American family television series centered on the friendship between a young boy and a tame black bear in the Florida Everglades.
  • E. Lobo
    Lobo is a surname most prominently associated with Rebecca Lobo, a former American professional basketball player and Hall of Famer.
  • 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: Smokey
Triple: [Walter Alston, nickname, Smokey]
Generated description
Smokey was the longtime nickname of Walter Alston, the Hall of Fame manager who led the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers to multiple World Series titles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Smokey
Target entity description: Smokey was the longtime nickname of Walter Alston, the Hall of Fame manager who led the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers to multiple World Series titles.
  • A. Smokey
    Smokey is the bluetick coonhound dog who serves as the live mascot for the University of Tennessee Volunteers athletic teams.
  • B. Blaze
    Blaze is the anthropomorphic orange cat mascot of the Portland Trail Blazers NBA team.
  • C. Rufus
    Rufus was a 1970s American funk and R&B band best known for launching Chaka Khan’s career and for hits like “Tell Me Something Good” and “Ain’t Nobody.”
  • D. Gentle Ben
    Gentle Ben is a 1960s American family television series centered on the friendship between a young boy and a tame black bear in the Florida Everglades.
  • E. Lobo
    Lobo is a surname most prominently associated with Rebecca Lobo, a former American professional basketball player and Hall of Famer.
  • 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_69a886151508819084fa7f1ce6e05577 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa6298fa748190acabb9f1d42bd3f5 completed March 6, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad79947c908190b807205bd44c3254 completed March 8, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad7a1223fc8190b7d62217c17f7517 completed March 8, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad7b0787c88190a59a815fa808ac6b completed March 8, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.