Triple

T1168098
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball E24845 entity
Predicate athleticDirector P745 FINISHED
Object Sherard Clinkscales
Sherard Clinkscales is an American sports executive and former professional baseball player who serves as the athletic director at Indiana State University.
 E163021 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: Sherard Clinkscales | Statement: [Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, athleticDirector, Sherard Clinkscales]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sherard Clinkscales
Context triple: [Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, athleticDirector, Sherard Clinkscales]
  • A. Julian Wadham
    Julian Wadham is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in acclaimed period dramas and historical productions.
  • B. John Hudson
    John Hudson was one of the sons of the English explorer Henry Hudson, who is believed to have accompanied his father on his final, ill-fated voyage in search of a Northwest Passage.
  • C. Edward Saxon
    Edward Saxon is an American film producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the psychological thriller "The Silence of the Lambs."
  • D. Philip Sherrard
    Philip Sherrard was a British scholar, theologian, and translator best known for his influential English translations of Eastern Orthodox spiritual and theological texts.
  • E. Richard Greatrex
    Richard Greatrex is a British cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-nominated work on the film "Shakespeare in Love."
  • 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: Sherard Clinkscales
Triple: [Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, athleticDirector, Sherard Clinkscales]
Generated description
Sherard Clinkscales is an American sports executive and former professional baseball player who serves as the athletic director at Indiana State University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sherard Clinkscales
Target entity description: Sherard Clinkscales is an American sports executive and former professional baseball player who serves as the athletic director at Indiana State University.
  • A. Julian Wadham
    Julian Wadham is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in acclaimed period dramas and historical productions.
  • B. John Hudson
    John Hudson was one of the sons of the English explorer Henry Hudson, who is believed to have accompanied his father on his final, ill-fated voyage in search of a Northwest Passage.
  • C. Edward Saxon
    Edward Saxon is an American film producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the psychological thriller "The Silence of the Lambs."
  • D. Philip Sherrard
    Philip Sherrard was a British scholar, theologian, and translator best known for his influential English translations of Eastern Orthodox spiritual and theological texts.
  • E. Richard Greatrex
    Richard Greatrex is a British cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-nominated work on the film "Shakespeare in Love."
  • 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_69ad0146e1ec8190974e9d73acd6ca90 completed March 8, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad01c53e808190824b9702c309f0a2 completed March 8, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0241546881908f1044616255f146 completed March 8, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.