Triple

T243240

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	HARV	`E4978`	entity
Predicate	usedInContext	`P36`	FINISHED
Object	NCAA basketball NCAA basketball is the system of college-level basketball in the United States governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, featuring men’s and women’s competitions that serve as a major pipeline to professional play and include the prominent March Madness tournament.	`E34003`	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: NCAA basketball | Statement: [HARV, usedInContext, NCAA basketball]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: NCAA basketball
Context triple: [HARV, usedInContext, NCAA basketball]

A. NCAA women’s basketball
NCAA women’s basketball is the governing body’s collegiate-level women’s basketball competition in the United States, featuring university teams across multiple divisions.
B. NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament is an annual single-elimination college basketball championship held each March in the United States, widely known as “March Madness” and one of the most popular sporting events in the country.
C. Ivy League men’s basketball
Ivy League men’s basketball is the NCAA Division I athletic conference’s men’s basketball competition featuring academically elite Northeastern universities such as Yale, Harvard, and Princeton.
D. Cathedral of College Basketball
The Cathedral of College Basketball is a famed nickname for The Palestra, a historic Philadelphia arena renowned as one of the most iconic and tradition-rich venues in college basketball.
E. NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament is the annual single-elimination championship that determines the top women’s college basketball team in the United States.
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: NCAA basketball
Triple: [HARV, usedInContext, NCAA basketball]

Generated description

NCAA basketball is the system of college-level basketball in the United States governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, featuring men’s and women’s competitions that serve as a major pipeline to professional play and include the prominent March Madness tournament.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: NCAA basketball
Target entity description: NCAA basketball is the system of college-level basketball in the United States governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, featuring men’s and women’s competitions that serve as a major pipeline to professional play and include the prominent March Madness tournament.

A. NCAA women’s basketball
NCAA women’s basketball is the governing body’s collegiate-level women’s basketball competition in the United States, featuring university teams across multiple divisions.
B. NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament is an annual single-elimination college basketball championship held each March in the United States, widely known as “March Madness” and one of the most popular sporting events in the country.
C. Ivy League men’s basketball
Ivy League men’s basketball is the NCAA Division I athletic conference’s men’s basketball competition featuring academically elite Northeastern universities such as Yale, Harvard, and Princeton.
D. Cathedral of College Basketball
The Cathedral of College Basketball is a famed nickname for The Palestra, a historic Philadelphia arena renowned as one of the most iconic and tradition-rich venues in college basketball.
E. NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament is the annual single-elimination championship that determines the top women’s college basketball team in the United States.
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_69a257c3d0708190b0871c4269d273e6`	completed	Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69a25cef84ac81908fcc175b7f89653b`	completed	Feb. 28, 2026, 3:11 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69a386155c0c8190baa1a1d5df15392e`	completed	March 1, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69a3867100008190a4d17f099802864c`	completed	March 1, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69a386c0ee288190ae58373c531e6313`	completed	March 1, 2026, 12:22 a.m.

Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.