Triple

T2714745
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Impossible Dream season E59941 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Elston Howard
Elston Howard was an American Major League Baseball catcher and the first African American player on the New York Yankees, known for his All-Star play and key contributions to multiple championship teams.
E295029 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: Elston Howard | Statement: [Impossible Dream season, notablePlayer, Elston Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elston Howard
Context triple: [Impossible Dream season, notablePlayer, Elston Howard]
  • A. Lloyd Waner
    Lloyd Waner was a speedy, contact-hitting center fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates and a Baseball Hall of Famer known for his exceptional defense and ability to get on base.
  • B. Pete Johnson
    Pete Johnson was an influential American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist known for his powerful, rhythmic style and collaborations with fellow pianists like Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis.
  • C. Gil Hodges
    Gil Hodges was a renowned Major League Baseball first baseman and later manager, best known for his power hitting with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers and for managing the 1969 "Miracle Mets" to a World Series title.
  • D. Frank Robinson
    Frank Robinson was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball outfielder and manager, renowned as one of the game’s greatest sluggers and the first player to win MVP awards in both the National and American Leagues.
  • E. Monte Irvin
    Monte Irvin was a Hall of Fame American baseball player renowned as a star of the Negro Leagues who later became one of Major League Baseball’s early Black pioneers.
  • 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: Elston Howard
Triple: [Impossible Dream season, notablePlayer, Elston Howard]
Generated description
Elston Howard was an American Major League Baseball catcher and the first African American player on the New York Yankees, known for his All-Star play and key contributions to multiple championship teams.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elston Howard
Target entity description: Elston Howard was an American Major League Baseball catcher and the first African American player on the New York Yankees, known for his All-Star play and key contributions to multiple championship teams.
  • A. Lloyd Waner
    Lloyd Waner was a speedy, contact-hitting center fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates and a Baseball Hall of Famer known for his exceptional defense and ability to get on base.
  • B. Pete Johnson
    Pete Johnson was an influential American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist known for his powerful, rhythmic style and collaborations with fellow pianists like Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis.
  • C. Gil Hodges
    Gil Hodges was a renowned Major League Baseball first baseman and later manager, best known for his power hitting with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers and for managing the 1969 "Miracle Mets" to a World Series title.
  • D. Frank Robinson
    Frank Robinson was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball outfielder and manager, renowned as one of the game’s greatest sluggers and the first player to win MVP awards in both the National and American Leagues.
  • E. Monte Irvin
    Monte Irvin was a Hall of Fame American baseball player renowned as a star of the Negro Leagues who later became one of Major League Baseball’s early Black pioneers.
  • 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_69ab4ac92a088190bc74bca14038e3de completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abda93a2388190b55a1c821ef6bc64 completed March 7, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afbbbe621881909e153290394798d6 completed March 10, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afbc67c39c8190b5932c0e23595f64 completed March 10, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afbd2d8a2c8190896a9154ebbd8bab completed March 10, 2026, 6:41 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:55 p.m.