Triple

T5669819
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Miami University E124945 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Wally Szczerbiak
Wally Szczerbiak is a former American professional basketball player and NBA All-Star best known for his scoring prowess with the Minnesota Timberwolves and later work as a basketball analyst.
 E542432 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: Wally Szczerbiak | Statement: [Miami University, hasNotableAlumni, Wally Szczerbiak]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wally Szczerbiak
Context triple: [Miami University, hasNotableAlumni, Wally Szczerbiak]
  • 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. Scott Barnes
    Scott Barnes is an American college athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director at Oregon State University and has previously held similar roles at several other universities.
  • C. Ross Barnes
    Ross Barnes was a 19th-century American baseball infielder renowned as one of the first great stars of professional baseball and a key figure in the early National League.
  • D. Brent Barry
    Brent Barry is a retired American professional basketball player and two-time NBA champion known for his sharpshooting, high basketball IQ, and victory in the 1996 NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Wally Szczerbiak
Triple: [Miami University, hasNotableAlumni, Wally Szczerbiak]
Generated description
Wally Szczerbiak is a former American professional basketball player and NBA All-Star best known for his scoring prowess with the Minnesota Timberwolves and later work as a basketball analyst.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wally Szczerbiak
Target entity description: Wally Szczerbiak is a former American professional basketball player and NBA All-Star best known for his scoring prowess with the Minnesota Timberwolves and later work as a basketball analyst.
  • 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. Scott Barnes
    Scott Barnes is an American college athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director at Oregon State University and has previously held similar roles at several other universities.
  • C. Ross Barnes
    Ross Barnes was a 19th-century American baseball infielder renowned as one of the first great stars of professional baseball and a key figure in the early National League.
  • D. Brent Barry
    Brent Barry is a retired American professional basketball player and two-time NBA champion known for his sharpshooting, high basketball IQ, and victory in the 1996 NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69c00828906881908966f270b8f130cf completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0234891d48190bf662f38ef84d4f3 completed March 22, 2026, 5:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a2ec0b4819091ae7d18cf76aecc completed March 22, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05e02edc48190938613946f19df01 completed March 22, 2026, 9:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c06209c3588190a6ededf9c198d5c5 completed March 22, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:43 p.m.