Triple

T919296
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Utah Stars E19844 entity
Predicate madePlayoffs P2486 FINISHED
Object 1971–72 ABA season
The 1971–72 ABA season was a professional basketball campaign in the American Basketball Association highlighted by strong team performances and playoff runs, including that of the Utah Stars.
 E111253 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: 1971–72 ABA season | Statement: [Utah Stars, madePlayoffs, 1971–72 ABA season]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 1971–72 ABA season
Context triple: [Utah Stars, madePlayoffs, 1971–72 ABA season]
  • A. 1970–71 ABA season
    The 1970–71 ABA season was the fourth season of the American Basketball Association, notable for the Utah Stars winning the championship.
  • B. 1972–73 ABA season
    The 1972–73 ABA season was a professional basketball campaign in the American Basketball Association notable for strong team performances, including the Kentucky Colonels’ dominance in their division.
  • C. 1967–68 ABA season
    The 1967–68 ABA season was the inaugural campaign of the American Basketball Association, marking the league’s first year of competition and the debut of its original franchises.
  • D. 1975 ABA Championship
    The 1975 ABA Championship was the American Basketball Association title series in which the Kentucky Colonels captured their only league championship.
  • E. 1974–75 ABA season
    The 1974–75 ABA season was a professional basketball campaign in the American Basketball Association during which the Kentucky Colonels emerged as one of the league’s top teams and went on to win the championship.
  • 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: 1971–72 ABA season
Triple: [Utah Stars, madePlayoffs, 1971–72 ABA season]
Generated description
The 1971–72 ABA season was a professional basketball campaign in the American Basketball Association highlighted by strong team performances and playoff runs, including that of the Utah Stars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 1971–72 ABA season
Target entity description: The 1971–72 ABA season was a professional basketball campaign in the American Basketball Association highlighted by strong team performances and playoff runs, including that of the Utah Stars.
  • A. 1970–71 ABA season
    The 1970–71 ABA season was the fourth season of the American Basketball Association, notable for the Utah Stars winning the championship.
  • B. 1972–73 ABA season
    The 1972–73 ABA season was a professional basketball campaign in the American Basketball Association notable for strong team performances, including the Kentucky Colonels’ dominance in their division.
  • C. 1967–68 ABA season
    The 1967–68 ABA season was the inaugural campaign of the American Basketball Association, marking the league’s first year of competition and the debut of its original franchises.
  • D. 1975 ABA Championship
    The 1975 ABA Championship was the American Basketball Association title series in which the Kentucky Colonels captured their only league championship.
  • E. 1974–75 ABA season
    The 1974–75 ABA season was a professional basketball campaign in the American Basketball Association during which the Kentucky Colonels emerged as one of the league’s top teams and went on to win the championship.
  • 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_69a826d8f9408190aa286bb809507797 completed March 4, 2026, 12:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a84d53e46c8190b19b56ecc928c9a0 completed March 4, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a84db197448190897d0def5f01a2c2 completed March 4, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.