Triple

T6759572
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Willie McCovey E154555 entity
Predicate nickname P55 FINISHED
Object Willie Mac
Willie Mac is the nickname of Willie McCovey, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball first baseman best known for his power-hitting career with the San Francisco Giants.
E618686 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: Willie Mac | Statement: [Willie McCovey, nickname, Willie Mac]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willie Mac
Context triple: [Willie McCovey, nickname, Willie Mac]
  • A. John Bettis
    John Bettis is an American lyricist and songwriter known for penning numerous pop and television theme songs, including hits for artists like The Carpenters and Michael Jackson.
  • B. Cod Beck
    Cod Beck is a small river in North Yorkshire, England, flowing through the North York Moors and the town of Thirsk before joining the River Swale.
  • C. Wayne Swinny
    Wayne Swinny was an American guitarist best known as a founding and longtime member of the hard rock band Saliva.
  • D. Malick Bowens
    Malick Bowens was a Kenyan-born actor best known for his supporting role in the Academy Award–winning film "Out of Africa."
  • E. Bryan Pringle
    Bryan Pringle was an English character actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and theatre from the mid-20th century onward.
  • 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: Willie Mac
Triple: [Willie McCovey, nickname, Willie Mac]
Generated description
Willie Mac is the nickname of Willie McCovey, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball first baseman best known for his power-hitting career with the San Francisco Giants.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willie Mac
Target entity description: Willie Mac is the nickname of Willie McCovey, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball first baseman best known for his power-hitting career with the San Francisco Giants.
  • A. John Bettis
    John Bettis is an American lyricist and songwriter known for penning numerous pop and television theme songs, including hits for artists like The Carpenters and Michael Jackson.
  • B. Cod Beck
    Cod Beck is a small river in North Yorkshire, England, flowing through the North York Moors and the town of Thirsk before joining the River Swale.
  • C. Wayne Swinny
    Wayne Swinny was an American guitarist best known as a founding and longtime member of the hard rock band Saliva.
  • D. Malick Bowens
    Malick Bowens was a Kenyan-born actor best known for his supporting role in the Academy Award–winning film "Out of Africa."
  • E. Bryan Pringle
    Bryan Pringle was an English character actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and theatre from the mid-20th century onward.
  • 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_69c6880fd5808190be684854081e27dd completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d21143748190beaab2488971d65b completed March 27, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c712b0926c81909601f21407526fd9 completed March 27, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7135106288190b5b20523c3efa229 completed March 27, 2026, 11:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7141cd52c8190a783590ad1067840 completed March 27, 2026, 11:34 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:12 p.m.