Triple

T9698540
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Long Beach State Beach men's volleyball team E234714 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Paul Lotman
Paul Lotman is an American former professional volleyball player and Olympic athlete known for his successful international club career and contributions to the U.S. men's national team.
E814525 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: Paul Lotman | Statement: [Long Beach State Beach men's volleyball team, notableAlumnus, Paul Lotman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Lotman
Context triple: [Long Beach State Beach men's volleyball team, notableAlumnus, Paul Lotman]
  • A. Yuri Lotman
    Yuri Lotman was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar and semiotician, best known as a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School and for his influential work on the semiotics of culture and literature.
  • B. Paul Körner
    Paul Körner was a high-ranking Nazi official and close associate of Hermann Göring who played a key role in the economic and industrial mobilization of the Third Reich.
  • C. Jean Starobinski
    Jean Starobinski was a prominent Swiss literary critic, historian of ideas, and physician known for his influential studies of Enlightenment thought and the history of melancholy.
  • D. Paul Kosok
    Paul Kosok was an American historian and archaeologist best known for pioneering the study of Peru’s Nazca Lines through early aerial surveys in the 1930s.
  • E. Lev Shestov
    Lev Shestov was a Russian existentialist philosopher known for his critiques of rationalism and his emphasis on faith, freedom, and the absurd in human existence.
  • 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: Paul Lotman
Triple: [Long Beach State Beach men's volleyball team, notableAlumnus, Paul Lotman]
Generated description
Paul Lotman is an American former professional volleyball player and Olympic athlete known for his successful international club career and contributions to the U.S. men's national team.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Lotman
Target entity description: Paul Lotman is an American former professional volleyball player and Olympic athlete known for his successful international club career and contributions to the U.S. men's national team.
  • A. Yuri Lotman
    Yuri Lotman was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar and semiotician, best known as a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School and for his influential work on the semiotics of culture and literature.
  • B. Paul Körner
    Paul Körner was a high-ranking Nazi official and close associate of Hermann Göring who played a key role in the economic and industrial mobilization of the Third Reich.
  • C. Jean Starobinski
    Jean Starobinski was a prominent Swiss literary critic, historian of ideas, and physician known for his influential studies of Enlightenment thought and the history of melancholy.
  • D. Paul Kosok
    Paul Kosok was an American historian and archaeologist best known for pioneering the study of Peru’s Nazca Lines through early aerial surveys in the 1930s.
  • E. Lev Shestov
    Lev Shestov was a Russian existentialist philosopher known for his critiques of rationalism and his emphasis on faith, freedom, and the absurd in human existence.
  • 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_69ca84cb580c8190a7e5f4b3bcdaf2a4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9d3d425c8190b652d84186b5ce9f completed April 1, 2026, 10:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d19125d3cc819082b3736d1b4ba802 completed April 4, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d192f37e54819099d316ce44de2c81 completed April 4, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1933ffc3481909395c9efb63875bb completed April 4, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:18 p.m.