Triple

T974684
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Texas Southern Tigers football E21024 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Cecil Shorts III
Cecil Shorts III is a former American football wide receiver who played in the NFL, most notably for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
 E127051 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: Cecil Shorts III | Statement: [Texas Southern Tigers football, notableAlumnus, Cecil Shorts III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cecil Shorts III
Context triple: [Texas Southern Tigers football, notableAlumnus, Cecil Shorts III]
  • A. Roy Hinson
    Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
  • B. Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons was a prominent Irish-American art director and production designer at MGM, renowned for shaping the visual style of classic Hollywood films and for designing the Oscar statuette.
  • C. Armond Hill
    Armond Hill is a former American basketball player and coach best known for his standout collegiate career at Princeton University and subsequent role as an NBA guard.
  • D. Dorval R. Carter Jr.
    Dorval R. Carter Jr. is an American public transportation executive who serves as the president and chair of the Chicago Transit Authority, overseeing one of the largest transit systems in the United States.
  • E. Michele Bullock
    Michele Bullock is an Australian economist and central banker who serves as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, overseeing the country’s monetary policy.
  • 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: Cecil Shorts III
Triple: [Texas Southern Tigers football, notableAlumnus, Cecil Shorts III]
Generated description
Cecil Shorts III is a former American football wide receiver who played in the NFL, most notably for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cecil Shorts III
Target entity description: Cecil Shorts III is a former American football wide receiver who played in the NFL, most notably for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
  • A. Roy Hinson
    Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
  • B. Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons was a prominent Irish-American art director and production designer at MGM, renowned for shaping the visual style of classic Hollywood films and for designing the Oscar statuette.
  • C. Armond Hill
    Armond Hill is a former American basketball player and coach best known for his standout collegiate career at Princeton University and subsequent role as an NBA guard.
  • D. Dorval R. Carter Jr.
    Dorval R. Carter Jr. is an American public transportation executive who serves as the president and chair of the Chicago Transit Authority, overseeing one of the largest transit systems in the United States.
  • E. Michele Bullock
    Michele Bullock is an Australian economist and central banker who serves as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, overseeing the country’s monetary policy.
  • 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_69a493c2b62c8190b616351789ec47f8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b460a5c0819087b03dfb8a3af2c2 completed March 1, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac4c0508348190b761b1cb40fd2ebc completed March 7, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac4d59d6e48190ae584c5505d583e2 completed March 7, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac4dc518cc8190a8eafd2eef7934d8 completed March 7, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.