Triple
T12994309
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Waterloo Hawks |
E321993
|
entity |
| Predicate | playedInConference |
P22375
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Western Division of the National Basketball Association |
E60573
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Western Division of the National Basketball Association | Statement: [Waterloo Hawks, playedInConference, Western Division of the National Basketball Association]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Division of the National Basketball Association Context triple: [Waterloo Hawks, playedInConference, Western Division of the National Basketball Association]
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A.
Western Division of NBA
chosen
The Western Division of the NBA was one of the league’s early geographic groupings of teams, comprising franchises from the western and midwestern United States before the NBA reorganized into conferences and divisions.
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B.
NBA Western Conference
The NBA Western Conference is one of the league’s two conferences, comprising teams primarily from the western United States and serving as a major competitive division in professional basketball.
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C.
Western Division (ABA)
Western Division (ABA) was one of the two primary conferences of the American Basketball Association, grouping together several of the league’s western-based professional basketball teams.
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D.
Western Conference (NBA G League)
The Western Conference of the NBA G League is one of the league’s primary competitive groupings, comprising several teams from the western and central regions of the United States that vie for playoff positioning and development opportunities for NBA affiliates.
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E.
ABA Western Conference
The ABA Western Conference was one of the two primary regional groupings of teams in the American Basketball Association during its existence as a rival professional basketball league to the NBA.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d8076479b8819090afce3591939cdf |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d97e7877f481908a03f1077600e58a |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:49 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f6b8fd5f44819087df1163b8f703ec |
completed | May 3, 2026, 2:54 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:44 p.m.