Triple

T6223282
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William G. Morgan E139167 entity
Predicate originalNameOfVolleyball P65 FINISHED
Object Mintonette
Mintonette was the original name of the sport that later became known as volleyball, created in 1895 as a less physically demanding alternative to basketball.
E577771 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Mintonette | Statement: [William G. Morgan, originalNameOfVolleyball, Mintonette]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mintonette
Context triple: [William G. Morgan, originalNameOfVolleyball, Mintonette]
  • A. Shuttlecocks
    Shuttlecocks is a famous outdoor sculpture installation by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, featuring giant badminton birdies displayed on the lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
  • B. Palla
    Palla is a Portuguese surname most notably associated with journalist and feminist activist Maria Antónia Palla.
  • C. Boule
    Boule was the citizen council of Classical Athens responsible for preparing legislation and overseeing the day-to-day administration of the city-state’s government.
  • D. Cadian ball
    The Cadian ball is a social gathering in Kate Chopin’s short story “At the ’Cadian Ball,” where members of Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole communities mingle, flirt, and confront issues of class, desire, and cultural identity.
  • E. The Ball
    "The Ball" is a short story by renowned Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, reflecting his characteristic blend of psychological insight and modernist narrative style.
  • 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: Mintonette
Triple: [William G. Morgan, originalNameOfVolleyball, Mintonette]
Generated description
Mintonette was the original name of the sport that later became known as volleyball, created in 1895 as a less physically demanding alternative to basketball.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mintonette
Target entity description: Mintonette was the original name of the sport that later became known as volleyball, created in 1895 as a less physically demanding alternative to basketball.
  • A. Shuttlecocks
    Shuttlecocks is a famous outdoor sculpture installation by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, featuring giant badminton birdies displayed on the lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
  • B. Palla
    Palla is a Portuguese surname most notably associated with journalist and feminist activist Maria Antónia Palla.
  • C. Boule
    Boule was the citizen council of Classical Athens responsible for preparing legislation and overseeing the day-to-day administration of the city-state’s government.
  • D. Cadian ball
    The Cadian ball is a social gathering in Kate Chopin’s short story “At the ’Cadian Ball,” where members of Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole communities mingle, flirt, and confront issues of class, desire, and cultural identity.
  • E. The Ball
    "The Ball" is a short story by renowned Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, reflecting his characteristic blend of psychological insight and modernist narrative style.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: originalNameOfVolleyball
Context triple: [William G. Morgan, originalNameOfVolleyball, Mintonette]
  • A. originalSport
    Indicates that one sport is the initial or primary sport associated with an entity, often before any change, adaptation, or transition to another sport.
  • B. originalCompetitionName
    Indicates the name of the competition as it was originally titled or first known, before any later changes or rebranding.
  • C. nameOf
    Indicates that one entity is the name or designation of another entity.
  • D. formerName chosen
    Indicates that an entity was previously known by a different name in the past.
  • E. originalNameLanguage
    Indicates that the specified language is the language in which an entity’s original or primary name was expressed.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69c008aecb0c81909984b48f733ce8ae completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c062c06c7881909999ba44aa4a23f9 completed March 22, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c20dcc5e788190a510cac6bbad4830 completed March 24, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c21498cfc0819097d1fa9cb10f7a92 completed March 24, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c215689f288190a54fb3fc7984455a completed March 24, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c055ffdf54819086d987d646e44ff5 completed March 22, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:22 p.m.