Triple

T943932
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Carolina Cougars E20368 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Mack Calvin
Mack Calvin is a former American professional basketball point guard best known for his standout play in the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the late 1960s and 1970s.
E151430 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: Mack Calvin | Statement: [Carolina Cougars, notablePlayer, Mack Calvin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mack Calvin
Context triple: [Carolina Cougars, notablePlayer, Mack Calvin]
  • A. Dwight Merriman
    Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
  • B. Hank O’Day
    Hank O’Day was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire and former pitcher, best known for his long umpiring career and involvement in several historic games and controversies.
  • C. Harold Shannon
    Harold Shannon was a Canadian sports executive known for being one of the owners involved with the Toronto Huskies professional basketball team in the 1940s.
  • D. Gordon Malloy
    Gordon Malloy is a wisecracking, skilled helmsman and loyal crew member aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • E. Rex Walters
    Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
  • 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: Mack Calvin
Triple: [Carolina Cougars, notablePlayer, Mack Calvin]
Generated description
Mack Calvin is a former American professional basketball point guard best known for his standout play in the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the late 1960s and 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mack Calvin
Target entity description: Mack Calvin is a former American professional basketball point guard best known for his standout play in the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • A. Dwight Merriman
    Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
  • B. Hank O’Day
    Hank O’Day was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire and former pitcher, best known for his long umpiring career and involvement in several historic games and controversies.
  • C. Harold Shannon
    Harold Shannon was a Canadian sports executive known for being one of the owners involved with the Toronto Huskies professional basketball team in the 1940s.
  • D. Gordon Malloy
    Gordon Malloy is a wisecracking, skilled helmsman and loyal crew member aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • E. Rex Walters
    Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
  • 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_69a493b0270c81909e6c9ce310f6aa55 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b3a2b1ec8190a2753ad3b3e8cc7a completed March 1, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acbf0949c481908868bd27eeb964b4 completed March 8, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acbfdaaa548190a9b8d74bf1651df1 completed March 8, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc04ff3bc819083df91a13ea63679 completed March 8, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.