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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.