Triple

T1168097
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball E24845 entity
Predicate mascot P52 FINISHED
Object Sycamore Sam
Sycamore Sam is the costumed mascot representing Indiana State University's athletic teams, especially the men's basketball program.
E135125 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: Sycamore Sam | Statement: [Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, mascot, Sycamore Sam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sycamore Sam
Context triple: [Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, mascot, Sycamore Sam]
  • A. Jimmie Gumm
    Jimmie Gumm is a member of the Gumm family, known primarily as a sibling of Mary Jane Gumm, part of the family connected to entertainer Judy Garland.
  • B. Raymond
    Raymond is the furry blue sea-dog mascot of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays, known for his playful antics at the team’s home games.
  • C. Raymond
    Raymond is a surname most notably associated with Eric S. Raymond, an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
  • D. Raymond
    Raymond is the middle name of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, the prominent figure behind the anti-communist "McCarthyism" movement in the 1950s.
  • E. Willie
    Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
  • 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: Sycamore Sam
Triple: [Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, mascot, Sycamore Sam]
Generated description
Sycamore Sam is the costumed mascot representing Indiana State University's athletic teams, especially the men's basketball program.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sycamore Sam
Target entity description: Sycamore Sam is the costumed mascot representing Indiana State University's athletic teams, especially the men's basketball program.
  • A. Jimmie Gumm
    Jimmie Gumm is a member of the Gumm family, known primarily as a sibling of Mary Jane Gumm, part of the family connected to entertainer Judy Garland.
  • B. Raymond
    Raymond is the furry blue sea-dog mascot of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays, known for his playful antics at the team’s home games.
  • C. Raymond
    Raymond is a surname most notably associated with Eric S. Raymond, an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
  • D. Raymond
    Raymond is the middle name of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, the prominent figure behind the anti-communist "McCarthyism" movement in the 1950s.
  • E. Willie
    Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
  • 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_69a494082a7c819095004f423f294a64 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bccef84481908864e819884af86c completed March 1, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac6f17aa608190920b7df62b8dd903 completed March 7, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac6fc5442c8190a5d824881f05d468 completed March 7, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac7026dda48190a72f671dba9ac17b completed March 7, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.