Triple

T7149447
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball E166654 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Ronnie Lester
Ronnie Lester is a former American basketball point guard best known for starring at the University of Iowa in the late 1970s before playing in the NBA and later working as an NBA executive.
E645073 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: Ronnie Lester | Statement: [Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Ronnie Lester]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ronnie Lester
Context triple: [Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Ronnie Lester]
  • A. Lonnie Lynn
    Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
  • B. Ronnie Knox
    Ronnie Knox was an American football quarterback active in the 1950s, known for his college career at UCLA and California and a brief stint in the NFL and CFL.
  • C. Ronnie Fields
    Ronnie Fields is a former American high school basketball phenom from Chicago known for his explosive athleticism and standout prep career in the 1990s.
  • D. Ronnie Turner
    Ronnie Turner was an American musician and actor best known as the son of legendary performers Tina Turner and Ike Turner.
  • E. Ronnie Hillman
    Ronnie Hillman was an American running back best known for his NFL career with the Denver Broncos, including contributing to their Super Bowl 50 championship.
  • 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: Ronnie Lester
Triple: [Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Ronnie Lester]
Generated description
Ronnie Lester is a former American basketball point guard best known for starring at the University of Iowa in the late 1970s before playing in the NBA and later working as an NBA executive.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ronnie Lester
Target entity description: Ronnie Lester is a former American basketball point guard best known for starring at the University of Iowa in the late 1970s before playing in the NBA and later working as an NBA executive.
  • A. Lonnie Lynn
    Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
  • B. Ronnie Knox
    Ronnie Knox was an American football quarterback active in the 1950s, known for his college career at UCLA and California and a brief stint in the NFL and CFL.
  • C. Ronnie Fields
    Ronnie Fields is a former American high school basketball phenom from Chicago known for his explosive athleticism and standout prep career in the 1990s.
  • D. Ronnie Turner
    Ronnie Turner was an American musician and actor best known as the son of legendary performers Tina Turner and Ike Turner.
  • E. Ronnie Hillman
    Ronnie Hillman was an American running back best known for his NFL career with the Denver Broncos, including contributing to their Super Bowl 50 championship.
  • 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_69c68886779c8190a8e3fbabffe68253 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e7f130e08190bc5ca99f90f9de92 completed March 27, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7ada940e08190b16e97e363801e75 completed March 28, 2026, 10:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7ae5767408190860c1c7bc3a769fa completed March 28, 2026, 10:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7aeb68c3481909c6dff8ee51349ab completed March 28, 2026, 10:34 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:46 p.m.