Triple

T7764575
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jamal Mashburn E176111 entity
Predicate participatedIn P149 FINISHED
Object 1996–97 NBA season
The 1996–97 NBA season was a professional basketball campaign notable for Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls winning their fifth championship and several star players, including Jamal Mashburn, making significant impacts across the league.
E687068 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: 1996–97 NBA season | Statement: [Jamal Mashburn, participatedIn, 1996–97 NBA season]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1996–97 NBA season
Context triple: [Jamal Mashburn, participatedIn, 1996–97 NBA season]
  • A. 1995–96 NBA season
    The 1995–96 NBA season is best known for the Chicago Bulls’ record-setting 72–10 regular-season performance and subsequent NBA championship, widely regarded as one of the greatest team seasons in basketball history.
  • B. 1996 NBA Finals
    The 1996 NBA Finals was the championship series in which Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls defeated the Seattle SuperSonics to cap a then-record 72-win season.
  • C. 1994–95 NBA season
    The 1994–95 NBA season was the league campaign in which the Houston Rockets, led by stars including Hakeem Olajuwon and midseason acquisition Clyde Drexler, won their second consecutive NBA championship.
  • D. 1996 NBA All-Star Game
    The 1996 NBA All-Star Game was the league’s midseason showcase held in San Antonio, featuring the NBA’s top players from the 1995–96 season in an exhibition matchup between the Eastern and Western Conferences.
  • E. 1993–94 NBA season
    The 1993–94 NBA season was a professional basketball campaign notable for Michael Jordan’s first retirement, the Houston Rockets’ championship run led by Hakeem Olajuwon, and several players, including Horace Grant, earning key All-Star recognition.
  • 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: 1996–97 NBA season
Triple: [Jamal Mashburn, participatedIn, 1996–97 NBA season]
Generated description
The 1996–97 NBA season was a professional basketball campaign notable for Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls winning their fifth championship and several star players, including Jamal Mashburn, making significant impacts across the league.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1996–97 NBA season
Target entity description: The 1996–97 NBA season was a professional basketball campaign notable for Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls winning their fifth championship and several star players, including Jamal Mashburn, making significant impacts across the league.
  • A. 1995–96 NBA season
    The 1995–96 NBA season is best known for the Chicago Bulls’ record-setting 72–10 regular-season performance and subsequent NBA championship, widely regarded as one of the greatest team seasons in basketball history.
  • B. 1996 NBA Finals
    The 1996 NBA Finals was the championship series in which Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls defeated the Seattle SuperSonics to cap a then-record 72-win season.
  • C. 1994–95 NBA season
    The 1994–95 NBA season was the league campaign in which the Houston Rockets, led by stars including Hakeem Olajuwon and midseason acquisition Clyde Drexler, won their second consecutive NBA championship.
  • D. 1996 NBA All-Star Game
    The 1996 NBA All-Star Game was the league’s midseason showcase held in San Antonio, featuring the NBA’s top players from the 1995–96 season in an exhibition matchup between the Eastern and Western Conferences.
  • E. 1993–94 NBA season
    The 1993–94 NBA season was a professional basketball campaign notable for Michael Jordan’s first retirement, the Houston Rockets’ championship run led by Hakeem Olajuwon, and several players, including Horace Grant, earning key All-Star recognition.
  • 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_69c69962923c8190ac74d28b4f9fe0a0 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c704076ba08190bcde971f7e4448c6 completed March 27, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8c7de604c81908f503e1553795d38 completed March 29, 2026, 6:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8c8b75b848190a67de2040d563f86 completed March 29, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8c941814081909d299df5cd714c71 completed March 29, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:09 p.m.