Triple

T1168415
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Butler Bulldogs men's basketball E24852 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Shelvin Mack
Shelvin Mack is an American former professional basketball guard best known for starring at Butler University and later playing several seasons in the NBA.
E171654 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: Shelvin Mack | Statement: [Butler Bulldogs men's basketball, notablePlayer, Shelvin Mack]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shelvin Mack
Context triple: [Butler Bulldogs men's basketball, notablePlayer, Shelvin Mack]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Miles Hendon
    Miles Hendon is a loyal and chivalrous English gentleman who befriends and protects the young Prince Edward in Mark Twain’s classic tale "The Prince and the Pauper."
  • C. Trey Wilson
    Trey Wilson was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in 1980s films such as "Bull Durham" and "Raising Arizona."
  • D. Isaiah Rogers
    Isaiah Rogers was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for pioneering hotel design and contributing major public buildings in the United States.
  • E. Darnell Donerson
    Darnell Donerson was the mother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically known for her murder in 2008.
  • 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: Shelvin Mack
Triple: [Butler Bulldogs men's basketball, notablePlayer, Shelvin Mack]
Generated description
Shelvin Mack is an American former professional basketball guard best known for starring at Butler University and later playing several seasons in the NBA.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shelvin Mack
Target entity description: Shelvin Mack is an American former professional basketball guard best known for starring at Butler University and later playing several seasons in the NBA.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Miles Hendon
    Miles Hendon is a loyal and chivalrous English gentleman who befriends and protects the young Prince Edward in Mark Twain’s classic tale "The Prince and the Pauper."
  • C. Trey Wilson
    Trey Wilson was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in 1980s films such as "Bull Durham" and "Raising Arizona."
  • D. Isaiah Rogers
    Isaiah Rogers was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for pioneering hotel design and contributing major public buildings in the United States.
  • E. Darnell Donerson
    Darnell Donerson was the mother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically known for her murder in 2008.
  • 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_69ad231945048190be6536b4a71334aa completed March 8, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad23cbe87c81909b745ecaadf77bce completed March 8, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad24224af08190a1a03c0f1d363ce0 completed March 8, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.