Triple

T2950326
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1987–88 NBA season E79804 entity
Predicate sixthManOfTheYear P16994 FINISHED
Object Roy Tarpley
Roy Tarpley was an American professional basketball player, best known as a talented but troubled Dallas Mavericks big man whose NBA career was derailed by substance abuse issues.
 E315862 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: Roy Tarpley | Statement: [1987–88 NBA season, sixthManOfTheYear, Roy Tarpley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Roy Tarpley
Context triple: [1987–88 NBA season, sixthManOfTheYear, Roy Tarpley]
  • A. Paul Westphal
    Paul Westphal was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach best known as an All-Star guard for the Phoenix Suns in the 1970s.
  • B. Adrian Dantley
    Adrian Dantley is a Hall of Fame American basketball player known as one of the NBA’s most prolific scoring forwards during the late 1970s and 1980s.
  • C. David Rivers
    David Rivers is a former American professional basketball player best known for his standout college career at Notre Dame and subsequent play in the NBA and top European leagues.
  • D. Reggie Theus
    Reggie Theus is a former American professional basketball player and coach, best known for his NBA career as a high-scoring guard and later coaching roles at the collegiate and professional levels.
  • E. Milt Buckner
    Milt Buckner was an American jazz pianist and organist known for popularizing the Hammond organ in jazz and pioneering the block-chord style of piano playing.
  • 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: Roy Tarpley
Triple: [1987–88 NBA season, sixthManOfTheYear, Roy Tarpley]
Generated description
Roy Tarpley was an American professional basketball player, best known as a talented but troubled Dallas Mavericks big man whose NBA career was derailed by substance abuse issues.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Roy Tarpley
Target entity description: Roy Tarpley was an American professional basketball player, best known as a talented but troubled Dallas Mavericks big man whose NBA career was derailed by substance abuse issues.
  • A. Paul Westphal
    Paul Westphal was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach best known as an All-Star guard for the Phoenix Suns in the 1970s.
  • B. Adrian Dantley
    Adrian Dantley is a Hall of Fame American basketball player known as one of the NBA’s most prolific scoring forwards during the late 1970s and 1980s.
  • C. David Rivers
    David Rivers is a former American professional basketball player best known for his standout college career at Notre Dame and subsequent play in the NBA and top European leagues.
  • D. Reggie Theus
    Reggie Theus is a former American professional basketball player and coach, best known for his NBA career as a high-scoring guard and later coaching roles at the collegiate and professional levels.
  • E. Milt Buckner
    Milt Buckner was an American jazz pianist and organist known for popularizing the Hammond organ in jazz and pioneering the block-chord style of piano playing.
  • 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_69ad8b1276588190a374a0b12e0f7bdf completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad98fbb7d4819081c241f3ff9165e5 completed March 8, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b108d7b64c8190a18bff804467fa2c completed March 11, 2026, 6:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1099ce7bc8190a541214034b856b8 completed March 11, 2026, 6:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b10a26d150819093b66967b805170c completed March 11, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:57 p.m.