Triple

T1937354
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maryland Terrapins men's basketball E41471 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Joe Smith
Joe Smith is a former American professional basketball player and 1995 NBA first overall draft pick who starred as a forward at the University of Maryland.
 E220204 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: Joe Smith | Statement: [Maryland Terrapins men's basketball, notablePlayer, Joe Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joe Smith
Context triple: [Maryland Terrapins men's basketball, notablePlayer, Joe Smith]
  • A. Johnny Smith
    Johnny Smith is the psychic protagonist of Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose visions of the future drive the story’s moral and political suspense.
  • B. Charlie Smith
    Charlie Smith is a fictional protagonist featured as the central character in a narrative work.
  • C. Phil Smith
    Phil Smith was an American professional basketball player best known as a two-time NBA All-Star guard and key contributor to the Golden State Warriors’ 1975 championship team.
  • D. Jimmy Smith
    Jimmy Smith was an influential American jazz organist whose innovative Hammond B-3 playing helped popularize soul jazz in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Arthur Smith
    Arthur Smith is a member of the Smith family, known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • 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: Joe Smith
Triple: [Maryland Terrapins men's basketball, notablePlayer, Joe Smith]
Generated description
Joe Smith is a former American professional basketball player and 1995 NBA first overall draft pick who starred as a forward at the University of Maryland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joe Smith
Target entity description: Joe Smith is a former American professional basketball player and 1995 NBA first overall draft pick who starred as a forward at the University of Maryland.
  • A. Johnny Smith
    Johnny Smith is the psychic protagonist of Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose visions of the future drive the story’s moral and political suspense.
  • B. Charlie Smith
    Charlie Smith is a fictional protagonist featured as the central character in a narrative work.
  • C. Phil Smith
    Phil Smith was an American professional basketball player best known as a two-time NBA All-Star guard and key contributor to the Golden State Warriors’ 1975 championship team.
  • D. Jimmy Smith
    Jimmy Smith was an influential American jazz organist whose innovative Hammond B-3 playing helped popularize soul jazz in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Arthur Smith
    Arthur Smith is a member of the Smith family, known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • 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_69a88649b24c819080047f26b6db2ded completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb2c752fc81909baf38ff1cdeb18c completed March 7, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbb52d04819097c3df9691551aaa completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc1a62b48190b01d81718c827abf completed March 8, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfd713c4081908a2fae2fada76dae completed March 8, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.