Triple

T5193125
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Detroit Stars E117203 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object John Donaldson
John Donaldson was a prominent early-20th-century African American baseball pitcher renowned for his dominance in Black baseball and barnstorming circuits before the formal Negro Leagues era.
 E510654 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: John Donaldson | Statement: [Detroit Stars, notablePlayer, John Donaldson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Donaldson
Context triple: [Detroit Stars, notablePlayer, John Donaldson]
  • A. Kevin Duckworth
    Kevin Duckworth was an American NBA center best known for his All-Star years with the Portland Trail Blazers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • B. John McGowan
    John McGowan was a writer whose work served as the basis for the 1943 musical film "Girl Crazy."
  • C. Christopher Noxon
    Christopher Noxon is an American journalist and author known for his nonfiction work and for being married to television producer Jenji Kohan.
  • D. John Cummings
    John Cummings is a Scottish musician best known as a former guitarist of the post-rock band Mogwai.
  • E. Jon A. McBride
    Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
  • 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: John Donaldson
Triple: [Detroit Stars, notablePlayer, John Donaldson]
Generated description
John Donaldson was a prominent early-20th-century African American baseball pitcher renowned for his dominance in Black baseball and barnstorming circuits before the formal Negro Leagues era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Donaldson
Target entity description: John Donaldson was a prominent early-20th-century African American baseball pitcher renowned for his dominance in Black baseball and barnstorming circuits before the formal Negro Leagues era.
  • A. Kevin Duckworth
    Kevin Duckworth was an American NBA center best known for his All-Star years with the Portland Trail Blazers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • B. John McGowan
    John McGowan was a writer whose work served as the basis for the 1943 musical film "Girl Crazy."
  • C. Christopher Noxon
    Christopher Noxon is an American journalist and author known for his nonfiction work and for being married to television producer Jenji Kohan.
  • D. John Cummings
    John Cummings is a Scottish musician best known as a former guitarist of the post-rock band Mogwai.
  • E. Jon A. McBride
    Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
  • 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_69bd4462ed04819084fcb01eb9d2fa74 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd79efd16c8190b0b16278a00baecd completed March 20, 2026, 4:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf10c17a648190b8ca7b85cfbfb9e4 completed March 21, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf148fa2588190b4977526beef3d8b completed March 21, 2026, 9:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf14dfa4608190a467faf7116a6405 completed March 21, 2026, 9:59 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:46 p.m.