Triple

T5759842
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Birmingham Black Barons E127062 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Bill Greason
Bill Greason is a former Negro League pitcher who starred for the Birmingham Black Barons before becoming one of the first Black players in the St. Louis Cardinals organization and later a longtime pastor.
E543653 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: Bill Greason | Statement: [Birmingham Black Barons, notablePlayer, Bill Greason]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Greason
Context triple: [Birmingham Black Barons, notablePlayer, Bill Greason]
  • A. Russ Hodges
    Russ Hodges was a prominent American sportscaster best known as the longtime radio and television voice of the New York and San Francisco Giants and for his iconic call of Bobby Thomson’s 1951 “Shot Heard ’Round the World.”
  • B. Bill Reeves
    Bill Reeves is a pioneering computer graphics researcher and animator best known for his influential work at Pixar, where he helped develop groundbreaking rendering and animation techniques.
  • C. Ted Dealey
    Ted Dealey was an American newspaper publisher and influential editor of The Dallas Morning News, known for his conservative political views and impact on Texas journalism.
  • D. Bill Bryant
    Bill Bryant is an American businessman and Republican politician from Washington state who has served as a Port of Seattle commissioner and ran for governor in 2016.
  • E. Bill Truitt
    Bill Truitt is a central character in the dark comedy film "The Opposite of Sex," serving as a mild-mannered teacher whose life is upended by the manipulative actions of his teenage half-sister.
  • 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: Bill Greason
Triple: [Birmingham Black Barons, notablePlayer, Bill Greason]
Generated description
Bill Greason is a former Negro League pitcher who starred for the Birmingham Black Barons before becoming one of the first Black players in the St. Louis Cardinals organization and later a longtime pastor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Greason
Target entity description: Bill Greason is a former Negro League pitcher who starred for the Birmingham Black Barons before becoming one of the first Black players in the St. Louis Cardinals organization and later a longtime pastor.
  • A. Russ Hodges
    Russ Hodges was a prominent American sportscaster best known as the longtime radio and television voice of the New York and San Francisco Giants and for his iconic call of Bobby Thomson’s 1951 “Shot Heard ’Round the World.”
  • B. Bill Reeves
    Bill Reeves is a pioneering computer graphics researcher and animator best known for his influential work at Pixar, where he helped develop groundbreaking rendering and animation techniques.
  • C. Ted Dealey
    Ted Dealey was an American newspaper publisher and influential editor of The Dallas Morning News, known for his conservative political views and impact on Texas journalism.
  • D. Bill Bryant
    Bill Bryant is an American businessman and Republican politician from Washington state who has served as a Port of Seattle commissioner and ran for governor in 2016.
  • E. Bill Truitt
    Bill Truitt is a central character in the dark comedy film "The Opposite of Sex," serving as a mild-mannered teacher whose life is upended by the manipulative actions of his teenage half-sister.
  • 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_69c00833a3fc81908f4bc29ed011b7a6 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0293771ec8190a0082685327d649b completed March 22, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c07e507d348190a983a4c127b78de0 completed March 22, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0895a350c819098bfe51833e7f0da completed March 23, 2026, 12:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c089e769248190aec908d826a36a85 completed March 23, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:49 p.m.