Triple
T18212101
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | United States men’s national volleyball team |
E436058
|
entity |
| Predicate | notablePlayer |
P304
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lloyd Ball |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Lloyd Ball | Statement: [United States men’s national volleyball team, notablePlayer, Lloyd Ball]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lloyd Ball Context triple: [United States men’s national volleyball team, notablePlayer, Lloyd Ball]
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A.
Max Ballard
Max Ballard is a central teen character from the 1990s Canadian TV series "Breaker High," which follows high school students attending classes aboard a cruise ship.
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B.
Lloyd Vaughan
Lloyd Vaughan was an American animator best known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons during the Golden Age of animation, contributing to many classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts.
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C.
Jack Bicknell
Jack Bicknell is an American football coach best known for leading Boston College to national prominence in the 1980s, including the famed Doug Flutie era and the 1984 Cotton Bowl victory.
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D.
Henry Boucher
Henry Boucher was a French political figure known for co-founding the center-right Democratic Republican Alliance during the Third Republic.
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E.
Wilfred Johnson
Wilfred Johnson was the paternal grandfather of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a British politician of Turkish descent who served as a Conservative Party councillor.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lloyd Ball Target entity description: Lloyd Ball is a former American volleyball setter renowned for leading the U.S. men’s national team to the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and for his long, distinguished international career.
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A.
Max Ballard
Max Ballard is a central teen character from the 1990s Canadian TV series "Breaker High," which follows high school students attending classes aboard a cruise ship.
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B.
Lloyd Vaughan
Lloyd Vaughan was an American animator best known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons during the Golden Age of animation, contributing to many classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts.
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C.
Jack Bicknell
Jack Bicknell is an American football coach best known for leading Boston College to national prominence in the 1980s, including the famed Doug Flutie era and the 1984 Cotton Bowl victory.
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D.
Henry Boucher
Henry Boucher was a French political figure known for co-founding the center-right Democratic Republican Alliance during the Third Republic.
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E.
Wilfred Johnson
Wilfred Johnson was the paternal grandfather of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a British politician of Turkish descent who served as a Conservative Party councillor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69d8b90dba6481908e119eb9aa4ca0cb |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4e2296f8081908247a6dd08f99b25 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 2:09 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:32 a.m.