Triple

T4838459
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject NHL Western Conference E108120 entity
Predicate formerDivision P1168 FINISHED
Object Northwest Division
The Northwest Division was a former National Hockey League division in the Western Conference that grouped several teams from the northwestern regions of North America before league realignment.
 E476831 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: Northwest Division | Statement: [NHL Western Conference, formerDivision, Northwest Division]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Northwest Division
Context triple: [NHL Western Conference, formerDivision, Northwest Division]
  • A. Northwest Division
    The Northwest Division is a grouping of NBA teams based primarily in the northwestern region of the United States, including franchises such as the Portland Trail Blazers.
  • B. Northeast Division
    The Northeast Division was a former National Hockey League division that grouped several teams from the northeastern United States and Canada before league realignment.
  • C. Midwest Division
    The Midwest Division was a former National Basketball Association (NBA) division that grouped several teams from the central United States before league realignment in 2004.
  • D. Central Division
    The Central Division is a grouping of teams within the American Hockey League that organizes competition among franchises based in the central region of North America.
  • E. Central Division
    The Central Division is one of the regional groupings of teams within the Eastern Conference of major North American professional sports leagues, such as the NBA and NHL.
  • 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: Northwest Division
Triple: [NHL Western Conference, formerDivision, Northwest Division]
Generated description
The Northwest Division was a former National Hockey League division in the Western Conference that grouped several teams from the northwestern regions of North America before league realignment.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Northwest Division
Target entity description: The Northwest Division was a former National Hockey League division in the Western Conference that grouped several teams from the northwestern regions of North America before league realignment.
  • A. Northwest Division
    The Northwest Division is a grouping of NBA teams based primarily in the northwestern region of the United States, including franchises such as the Portland Trail Blazers.
  • B. Northeast Division
    The Northeast Division was a former National Hockey League division that grouped several teams from the northeastern United States and Canada before league realignment.
  • C. Midwest Division
    The Midwest Division was a former National Basketball Association (NBA) division that grouped several teams from the central United States before league realignment in 2004.
  • D. Central Division
    The Central Division is one of the regional groupings of teams within the Eastern Conference of major North American professional sports leagues, such as the NBA and NHL.
  • E. Central Division
    The Central Division is a grouping of teams within the American Hockey League that organizes competition among franchises based in the central region of North America.
  • 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_69bd43fbe444819085cb970706ef73f7 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6ce2e810819089f9a3f2a7574d44 completed March 20, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be67d449188190a2f02fa30aee4891 completed March 21, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be69822e20819087263aea34095ab1 completed March 21, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be69ddc2008190bd3e6febe9340ea5 completed March 21, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.