Triple

T7591296
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Albany Firebirds E179740 entity
Predicate headCoach P256 FINISHED
Object Rick Buffington
Rick Buffington is an American arena football coach best known for leading the Albany Firebirds in the Arena Football League.
E675324 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: Rick Buffington | Statement: [Albany Firebirds, headCoach, Rick Buffington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rick Buffington
Context triple: [Albany Firebirds, headCoach, Rick Buffington]
  • A. Gary Bonner
    Gary Bonner is a musician best known as a member of the new wave band Tom Tom Club.
  • B. Jeff Pidgeon
    Jeff Pidgeon is an American animator, storyboard artist, and voice actor best known for his work at Pixar on films such as Monsters, Inc. and the Toy Story series.
  • C. Russell Birdwell
    Russell Birdwell was an American film publicist and occasional director known for his influential work in Hollywood marketing and promotion during the mid-20th century.
  • D. Duncan McDuffie
    Duncan McDuffie was an early 20th-century American mountaineer and conservationist known for pioneering ascents in the Sierra Nevada and for his influential role in the Sierra Club.
  • E. Dick Tufeld
    Dick Tufeld was an American voice actor best known as the iconic voice of the Robot in the classic television series "Lost in Space."
  • 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: Rick Buffington
Triple: [Albany Firebirds, headCoach, Rick Buffington]
Generated description
Rick Buffington is an American arena football coach best known for leading the Albany Firebirds in the Arena Football League.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rick Buffington
Target entity description: Rick Buffington is an American arena football coach best known for leading the Albany Firebirds in the Arena Football League.
  • A. Gary Bonner
    Gary Bonner is a musician best known as a member of the new wave band Tom Tom Club.
  • B. Jeff Pidgeon
    Jeff Pidgeon is an American animator, storyboard artist, and voice actor best known for his work at Pixar on films such as Monsters, Inc. and the Toy Story series.
  • C. Russell Birdwell
    Russell Birdwell was an American film publicist and occasional director known for his influential work in Hollywood marketing and promotion during the mid-20th century.
  • D. Duncan McDuffie
    Duncan McDuffie was an early 20th-century American mountaineer and conservationist known for pioneering ascents in the Sierra Nevada and for his influential role in the Sierra Club.
  • E. Dick Tufeld
    Dick Tufeld was an American voice actor best known as the iconic voice of the Robot in the classic television series "Lost in Space."
  • 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_69c69f335248819093c1006f30513708 completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f9b746ac8190b255afdfb9635f72 completed March 27, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c86192b5d88190b0a02cf303462bfb completed March 28, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8628d252c8190bc67e90f497f1ada completed March 28, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8631e5c2c8190b1c593ca9bbf039c completed March 28, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:53 p.m.