Triple

T4845745
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bill Musselman E108285 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William Clifford Musselman
William Clifford Musselman was an American basketball coach known for his intense, disciplined style and successful stints in college basketball, the ABA, and the NBA.
E494380 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: William Clifford Musselman | Statement: [Bill Musselman, birthName, William Clifford Musselman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Clifford Musselman
Context triple: [Bill Musselman, birthName, William Clifford Musselman]
  • A. Louis Jay Meyers
    Louis Jay Meyers was an American music promoter and co-founder of the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, known for his influential role in shaping Austin’s music and creative industries.
  • B. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • C. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • D. Charles A. Myers
    Charles A. Myers was an American economist and labor relations scholar known for his influential work on industrial relations and collaboration with fellow academic Clark Kerr.
  • E. Fred M. Wilcox
    Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
  • 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: William Clifford Musselman
Triple: [Bill Musselman, birthName, William Clifford Musselman]
Generated description
William Clifford Musselman was an American basketball coach known for his intense, disciplined style and successful stints in college basketball, the ABA, and the NBA.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Clifford Musselman
Target entity description: William Clifford Musselman was an American basketball coach known for his intense, disciplined style and successful stints in college basketball, the ABA, and the NBA.
  • A. Louis Jay Meyers
    Louis Jay Meyers was an American music promoter and co-founder of the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, known for his influential role in shaping Austin’s music and creative industries.
  • B. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • C. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • D. Charles A. Myers
    Charles A. Myers was an American economist and labor relations scholar known for his influential work on industrial relations and collaboration with fellow academic Clark Kerr.
  • E. Fred M. Wilcox
    Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
  • 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_69bd4409b264819085ab855f3eb5381a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d020e5c8190aa9ceb4258e713c3 completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beba49cac08190aa083ebeb52004eb completed March 21, 2026, 3:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bebbe7e8e081909814e97001f8cf89 completed March 21, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bebd33f25c8190a5d9b78ef71847e3 completed March 21, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.