Triple

T9563628
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mountain West Conference Player of the Year E230735 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Sam Merrill
Sam Merrill is an American professional basketball player and sharpshooting guard best known for his standout collegiate career at Utah State and subsequent NBA tenure.
E807278 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: Sam Merrill | Statement: [Mountain West Conference Player of the Year, hasRecipient, Sam Merrill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Merrill
Context triple: [Mountain West Conference Player of the Year, hasRecipient, Sam Merrill]
  • A. Merrill De Maris
    Merrill De Maris was an American screenwriter and story artist for Walt Disney Studios, best known for co-writing the screenplay for the landmark animated feature "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
  • B. Merritt Butrick
    Merritt Butrick was an American actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Square Pegs" and as David Marcus in the "Star Trek" film franchise.
  • C. Michael Merrill
    Michael Merrill is the son of legendary American actress Bette Davis, known for his later role in managing her estate and legacy.
  • D. Kim Mills
    Kim Mills is the teenage daughter of ex-CIA operative Bryan Mills in the "Taken" film series, whose kidnapping sets off the franchise’s central rescue-driven action.
  • E. Scott Morrow
    Scott Morrow is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the surname "Morrow," with no widely recognized public achievements or roles documented.
  • 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: Sam Merrill
Triple: [Mountain West Conference Player of the Year, hasRecipient, Sam Merrill]
Generated description
Sam Merrill is an American professional basketball player and sharpshooting guard best known for his standout collegiate career at Utah State and subsequent NBA tenure.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Merrill
Target entity description: Sam Merrill is an American professional basketball player and sharpshooting guard best known for his standout collegiate career at Utah State and subsequent NBA tenure.
  • A. Merrill De Maris
    Merrill De Maris was an American screenwriter and story artist for Walt Disney Studios, best known for co-writing the screenplay for the landmark animated feature "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
  • B. Merritt Butrick
    Merritt Butrick was an American actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Square Pegs" and as David Marcus in the "Star Trek" film franchise.
  • C. Michael Merrill
    Michael Merrill is the son of legendary American actress Bette Davis, known for his later role in managing her estate and legacy.
  • D. Kim Mills
    Kim Mills is the teenage daughter of ex-CIA operative Bryan Mills in the "Taken" film series, whose kidnapping sets off the franchise’s central rescue-driven action.
  • E. Scott Morrow
    Scott Morrow is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the surname "Morrow," with no widely recognized public achievements or roles documented.
  • 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_69ca847e53a88190a60eed7e02257f10 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9968b8608190b3078fe5764f0a69 completed April 1, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d152a56f0481908f36df2d4d1291f2 completed April 4, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d15620742481909cb17de46f1e5d1c completed April 4, 2026, 6:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d156c815fc819088239d154460102a completed April 4, 2026, 6:22 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:04 p.m.