Triple

T5436999
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Basketball League (1944–1947) E122032 entity
Predicate hadTeam P330 FINISHED
Object Wilmington Bombers
The Wilmington Bombers were a professional basketball team that competed in the mid-1940s, known for playing in the early postwar era of organized U.S. basketball.
E519519 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: Wilmington Bombers | Statement: [American Basketball League (1944–1947), hadTeam, Wilmington Bombers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilmington Bombers
Context triple: [American Basketball League (1944–1947), hadTeam, Wilmington Bombers]
  • A. St. Louis Bombers
    The St. Louis Bombers were a professional basketball team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that played in the late 1940s and early 1950s and were part of the early history of what became the NBA.
  • B. Baltimore Clippers
    The Baltimore Clippers were a professional minor league ice hockey team that played in the American Hockey League and later the Southern Hockey League during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Battle Creek Bombers
    The Battle Creek Bombers are a collegiate summer baseball team that competes in the Northwoods League and is based in Battle Creek, Michigan.
  • D. Newark Eagles
    The Newark Eagles were a prominent Negro League baseball team based in Newark, New Jersey, known for fielding several Hall of Fame players and winning the 1946 Negro World Series.
  • E. Springfield Falcons
    The Springfield Falcons were a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League based in Springfield, Massachusetts.
  • 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: Wilmington Bombers
Triple: [American Basketball League (1944–1947), hadTeam, Wilmington Bombers]
Generated description
The Wilmington Bombers were a professional basketball team that competed in the mid-1940s, known for playing in the early postwar era of organized U.S. basketball.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilmington Bombers
Target entity description: The Wilmington Bombers were a professional basketball team that competed in the mid-1940s, known for playing in the early postwar era of organized U.S. basketball.
  • A. St. Louis Bombers
    The St. Louis Bombers were a professional basketball team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that played in the late 1940s and early 1950s and were part of the early history of what became the NBA.
  • B. Baltimore Clippers
    The Baltimore Clippers were a professional minor league ice hockey team that played in the American Hockey League and later the Southern Hockey League during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Battle Creek Bombers
    The Battle Creek Bombers are a collegiate summer baseball team that competes in the Northwoods League and is based in Battle Creek, Michigan.
  • D. Newark Eagles
    The Newark Eagles were a prominent Negro League baseball team based in Newark, New Jersey, known for fielding several Hall of Fame players and winning the 1946 Negro World Series.
  • E. Springfield Falcons
    The Springfield Falcons were a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League based in Springfield, Massachusetts.
  • 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_69bd46400768819092925d461c0b8432 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd91bb51d48190aab340d8d25e9a9a completed March 20, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3acfd0408190877fbe41f1dc45ba completed March 22, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf3c4f3e288190bab81e761017f015 completed March 22, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3cde5004819096988c61b45958ea completed March 22, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:07 p.m.