Triple

T919233
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spirits of St. Louis E19843 entity
Predicate coach P2169 FINISHED
Object Rod Thorn
Rod Thorn is an American former NBA player, coach, and longtime league executive best known for his front-office roles with the Chicago Bulls and New Jersey Nets.
E115071 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: Rod Thorn | Statement: [Spirits of St. Louis, coach, Rod Thorn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rod Thorn
Context triple: [Spirits of St. Louis, coach, Rod Thorn]
  • A. Paul Riley
    Paul Riley is an English-born soccer coach best known for his tenure in U.S. women’s professional soccer, including a controversial spell leading top NWSL clubs.
  • B. Mitch Richmond
    Mitch Richmond is a Hall of Fame shooting guard best known for his prolific scoring and six consecutive All-Star appearances in the 1990s NBA.
  • C. Don Nelson
    Don Nelson is a Hall of Fame NBA coach and former player best known for his innovative, up-tempo offensive systems and record-setting total for career coaching wins.
  • D. Elvin Hayes
    Elvin Hayes is a Hall of Fame American basketball player renowned as one of the NBA’s dominant power forwards of the 1970s, particularly for his scoring, rebounding, and key role in leading the Washington Bullets to the 1978 championship.
  • E. Paul Silas
    Paul Silas was an American professional basketball player and three-time NBA champion who later became a head coach in the league.
  • 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: Rod Thorn
Triple: [Spirits of St. Louis, coach, Rod Thorn]
Generated description
Rod Thorn is an American former NBA player, coach, and longtime league executive best known for his front-office roles with the Chicago Bulls and New Jersey Nets.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rod Thorn
Target entity description: Rod Thorn is an American former NBA player, coach, and longtime league executive best known for his front-office roles with the Chicago Bulls and New Jersey Nets.
  • A. Paul Riley
    Paul Riley is an English-born soccer coach best known for his tenure in U.S. women’s professional soccer, including a controversial spell leading top NWSL clubs.
  • B. Mitch Richmond
    Mitch Richmond is a Hall of Fame shooting guard best known for his prolific scoring and six consecutive All-Star appearances in the 1990s NBA.
  • C. Don Nelson
    Don Nelson is a Hall of Fame NBA coach and former player best known for his innovative, up-tempo offensive systems and record-setting total for career coaching wins.
  • D. Elvin Hayes
    Elvin Hayes is a Hall of Fame American basketball player renowned as one of the NBA’s dominant power forwards of the 1970s, particularly for his scoring, rebounding, and key role in leading the Washington Bullets to the 1978 championship.
  • E. Paul Silas
    Paul Silas was an American professional basketball player and three-time NBA champion who later became a head coach in the league.
  • 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_69a493a099788190a696d9d8408cbaf4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b3103bf48190af3f8d8b2d0fe918 completed March 1, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac16fbe454819085020fc245c959ed completed March 7, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac1834bc84819087887abe63022b66 completed March 7, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac18f72b6481909f6204783f147192 completed March 7, 2026, 12:24 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.