Triple

T1775924
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Syracuse Orange football E38977 entity
Predicate HeismanWinner P20896 FINISHED
Object Ernie Davis
Ernie Davis was a trailblazing American college football running back who became the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy and a symbol of progress in sports during the civil rights era.
E203725 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: Ernie Davis | Statement: [Syracuse Orange football, HeismanWinner, Ernie Davis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernie Davis
Context triple: [Syracuse Orange football, HeismanWinner, Ernie Davis]
  • A. Jim Brown
    Jim Brown was a legendary NFL running back widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time.
  • B. Doak Walker
    Doak Walker was a Hall of Fame American football halfback and placekicker renowned for his collegiate stardom at SMU and his standout NFL career in the 1950s.
  • C. Elmer Davis
    Elmer Davis was an American news reporter, author, and government official best known for leading U.S. propaganda and information efforts during World War II.
  • D. Marion Motley
    Marion Motley was a pioneering African American fullback and linebacker in professional football, renowned for his powerful running and key role in breaking the NFL’s color barrier in the 1940s.
  • E. Lance Alworth
    Lance Alworth is a legendary American football wide receiver, best known for his electrifying play with the San Diego Chargers in the 1960s and his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
  • 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: Ernie Davis
Triple: [Syracuse Orange football, HeismanWinner, Ernie Davis]
Generated description
Ernie Davis was a trailblazing American college football running back who became the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy and a symbol of progress in sports during the civil rights era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernie Davis
Target entity description: Ernie Davis was a trailblazing American college football running back who became the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy and a symbol of progress in sports during the civil rights era.
  • A. Jim Brown
    Jim Brown was a legendary NFL running back widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time.
  • B. Doak Walker
    Doak Walker was a Hall of Fame American football halfback and placekicker renowned for his collegiate stardom at SMU and his standout NFL career in the 1950s.
  • C. Elmer Davis
    Elmer Davis was an American news reporter, author, and government official best known for leading U.S. propaganda and information efforts during World War II.
  • D. Marion Motley
    Marion Motley was a pioneering African American fullback and linebacker in professional football, renowned for his powerful running and key role in breaking the NFL’s color barrier in the 1940s.
  • E. Lance Alworth
    Lance Alworth is a legendary American football wide receiver, best known for his electrifying play with the San Diego Chargers in the 1960s and his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
  • 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_69a8862e61708190af97b9838cc3f5de completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa64b839608190b32bc041267458d5 completed March 6, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adbf4fd0ec8190904f1ad2155c58bf completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adc07e9ebc819082566cc98025b4ae completed March 8, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc12c894881909c9a82fc9e363a41 completed March 8, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.