Triple

T1131521
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1946–47 BAA season E23040 entity
Predicate hadTeam P330 FINISHED
Object Pittsburgh Ironmen
The Pittsburgh Ironmen were a short-lived professional basketball team that competed in the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the modern NBA, during the league’s inaugural season.
E133392 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: Pittsburgh Ironmen | Statement: [1946–47 BAA season, hadTeam, Pittsburgh Ironmen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pittsburgh Ironmen
Context triple: [1946–47 BAA season, hadTeam, Pittsburgh Ironmen]
  • A. New York Brickley Giants (NFL)
    The New York Brickley Giants were a short-lived early National Football League team from New York City that played in the early 1920s.
  • B. New York Arrows
    The New York Arrows were a professional indoor soccer team that competed in the original Major Indoor Soccer League in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  • C. Buffalo Bandits
    The Buffalo Bandits are a professional box lacrosse team based in Buffalo, New York, competing in the National Lacrosse League.
  • D. New Orleans Eagles
    The New Orleans Eagles were a professional Negro league baseball team based in New Orleans that competed in the Negro American League during the era of segregated baseball in the United States.
  • E. Indianapolis Jets
    The Indianapolis Jets were a short-lived professional basketball team based in Indianapolis that competed in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), a predecessor to the NBA, during the late 1940s.
  • 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: Pittsburgh Ironmen
Triple: [1946–47 BAA season, hadTeam, Pittsburgh Ironmen]
Generated description
The Pittsburgh Ironmen were a short-lived professional basketball team that competed in the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the modern NBA, during the league’s inaugural season.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pittsburgh Ironmen
Target entity description: The Pittsburgh Ironmen were a short-lived professional basketball team that competed in the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the modern NBA, during the league’s inaugural season.
  • A. New York Brickley Giants (NFL)
    The New York Brickley Giants were a short-lived early National Football League team from New York City that played in the early 1920s.
  • B. New York Arrows
    The New York Arrows were a professional indoor soccer team that competed in the original Major Indoor Soccer League in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  • C. Buffalo Bandits
    The Buffalo Bandits are a professional box lacrosse team based in Buffalo, New York, competing in the National Lacrosse League.
  • D. New Orleans Eagles
    The New Orleans Eagles were a professional Negro league baseball team based in New Orleans that competed in the Negro American League during the era of segregated baseball in the United States.
  • E. Indianapolis Jets
    The Indianapolis Jets were a short-lived professional basketball team based in Indianapolis that competed in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), a predecessor to the NBA, during the late 1940s.
  • 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_69a493ec75988190b63a11bafaec29b4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bbfb673081909773acc669ad08c8 completed March 1, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac667454848190acedaaa3ce7edb84 completed March 7, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac670b57808190bee4aa0be78ae8a1 completed March 7, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac67e981e88190b10ad4ab72337557 completed March 7, 2026, 6:01 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.