Triple

T8209679
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject North American Soccer League (1968–1984) E191781 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object United Soccer Association
United Soccer Association was a short-lived professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that operated in 1967 and helped lay the groundwork for the later North American Soccer League.
 E720455 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: United Soccer Association | Statement: [North American Soccer League (1968–1984), precededBy, United Soccer Association]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: United Soccer Association
Context triple: [North American Soccer League (1968–1984), precededBy, United Soccer Association]
  • A. United Soccer Leagues
    United Soccer Leagues is an American organization that operates and oversees multiple professional and semi-professional soccer leagues in the United States and Canada.
  • B. National Independent Soccer Association
    The National Independent Soccer Association is a U.S.-based professional third-division soccer league featuring independent clubs outside Major League Soccer and the USL system.
  • C. National Soccer League
    The National Soccer League was Australia's former top-tier national men's soccer competition, running from 1977 until it was succeeded by the A-League.
  • D. National Soccer League
    The National Soccer League was the former top-tier professional football league in South Africa that operated during the late 20th century before being succeeded by the modern Premier Division.
  • E. American Soccer League
    The American Soccer League was a professional soccer league in the United States that operated in various incarnations during the 20th century and helped develop the sport domestically before the rise of Major League Soccer.
  • 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: United Soccer Association
Triple: [North American Soccer League (1968–1984), precededBy, United Soccer Association]
Generated description
United Soccer Association was a short-lived professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that operated in 1967 and helped lay the groundwork for the later North American Soccer League.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: United Soccer Association
Target entity description: United Soccer Association was a short-lived professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that operated in 1967 and helped lay the groundwork for the later North American Soccer League.
  • A. United Soccer Leagues
    United Soccer Leagues is an American organization that operates and oversees multiple professional and semi-professional soccer leagues in the United States and Canada.
  • B. National Independent Soccer Association
    The National Independent Soccer Association is a U.S.-based professional third-division soccer league featuring independent clubs outside Major League Soccer and the USL system.
  • C. National Soccer League
    The National Soccer League was Australia's former top-tier national men's soccer competition, running from 1977 until it was succeeded by the A-League.
  • D. National Soccer League
    The National Soccer League was the former top-tier professional football league in South Africa that operated during the late 20th century before being succeeded by the modern Premier Division.
  • E. American Soccer League
    The American Soccer League was a professional soccer league in the United States that operated in various incarnations during the 20th century and helped develop the sport domestically before the rise of Major League Soccer.
  • 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_69ca82c8c054819087fedd9a5436b8a3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb76dc784881908e1f63ac907cdd01 completed March 31, 2026, 7:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd34b49fb88190b30a89d594ed4ada completed April 1, 2026, 3:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd36ef47e88190ae96ea2459552247 completed April 1, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd4e9d362481908283d58b03c7ef9b completed April 1, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:44 p.m.