Triple

T6725989
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Houston Comets E153518 entity
Predicate owner P347 FINISHED
Object Leslie Alexander
Leslie Alexander is an American businessman best known as the former owner of the NBA’s Houston Rockets and the WNBA’s Houston Comets.
 E615549 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: Leslie Alexander | Statement: [Houston Comets, owner, Leslie Alexander]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Leslie Alexander
Context triple: [Houston Comets, owner, Leslie Alexander]
  • A. Leslie Alexander
    Leslie Alexander is known primarily as a child of American politician and former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander.
  • B. Leslie Williams
    Leslie Williams is a musician known for being a member of the British electronic music collective Beats International, led by Norman Cook (later known as Fatboy Slim).
  • C. Leslie Newman
    Leslie Newman is a screenwriter best known for co-writing several of the Christopher Reeve-era Superman films, including Superman III.
  • D. Martin Leslie
    Martin Leslie is a former Australian rules footballer best known as a key defender who played in the VFL/AFL during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • E. Leslie Fenton
    Leslie Fenton was a British-born American actor and film director active in Hollywood during the early to mid-20th century.
  • 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: Leslie Alexander
Triple: [Houston Comets, owner, Leslie Alexander]
Generated description
Leslie Alexander is an American businessman best known as the former owner of the NBA’s Houston Rockets and the WNBA’s Houston Comets.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Leslie Alexander
Target entity description: Leslie Alexander is an American businessman best known as the former owner of the NBA’s Houston Rockets and the WNBA’s Houston Comets.
  • A. Leslie Alexander
    Leslie Alexander is known primarily as a child of American politician and former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander.
  • B. Leslie Williams
    Leslie Williams is a musician known for being a member of the British electronic music collective Beats International, led by Norman Cook (later known as Fatboy Slim).
  • C. Leslie Newman
    Leslie Newman is a screenwriter best known for co-writing several of the Christopher Reeve-era Superman films, including Superman III.
  • D. Martin Leslie
    Martin Leslie is a former Australian rules footballer best known as a key defender who played in the VFL/AFL during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • E. Leslie Fenton
    Leslie Fenton was a British-born American actor and film director active in Hollywood during the early to mid-20th century.
  • 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_69c6880afb988190ad88011b48ecfcba completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d15131f08190aba6c00943c51331 completed March 27, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c70afea37881909a4fdce4b3229e38 completed March 27, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c70be7d9308190b7e4e36e89c12773 completed March 27, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c70c618a2c819097e0cfd869bf99b7 completed March 27, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:08 p.m.