Triple

T7149448
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball E166654 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Acie Earl
Acie Earl is a former American professional basketball center best known for his standout college career at the University of Iowa and subsequent play in the NBA and overseas.
E645074 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: Acie Earl | Statement: [Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Acie Earl]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Acie Earl
Context triple: [Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Acie Earl]
  • A. Earl Osmond
    Earl Osmond is the villainous nobleman who serves as the central antagonist in Matthew Lewis’s Gothic drama "The Castle Spectre."
  • B. Earle Kingston
    Earle Kingston is the husband of acclaimed Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston.
  • C. Semeka Randall
    Semeka Randall is a former American college basketball star and WNBA guard best known for her standout career under coach Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee.
  • D. Earl Coleman
    Earl Coleman was an American jazz baritone vocalist known for his smooth, romantic style and collaborations with prominent bebop musicians in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Rollo Lee
    Rollo Lee is the bumbling yet well-meaning zoo manager played by John Cleese in the British comedy film "Fierce Creatures."
  • 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: Acie Earl
Triple: [Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Acie Earl]
Generated description
Acie Earl is a former American professional basketball center best known for his standout college career at the University of Iowa and subsequent play in the NBA and overseas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Acie Earl
Target entity description: Acie Earl is a former American professional basketball center best known for his standout college career at the University of Iowa and subsequent play in the NBA and overseas.
  • A. Earl Osmond
    Earl Osmond is the villainous nobleman who serves as the central antagonist in Matthew Lewis’s Gothic drama "The Castle Spectre."
  • B. Earle Kingston
    Earle Kingston is the husband of acclaimed Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston.
  • C. Semeka Randall
    Semeka Randall is a former American college basketball star and WNBA guard best known for her standout career under coach Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee.
  • D. Earl Coleman
    Earl Coleman was an American jazz baritone vocalist known for his smooth, romantic style and collaborations with prominent bebop musicians in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Rollo Lee
    Rollo Lee is the bumbling yet well-meaning zoo manager played by John Cleese in the British comedy film "Fierce Creatures."
  • 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.