Triple

T13043789
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cleveland Crusaders E327264 entity
Predicate notableCoach P550 FINISHED
Object Bill Needham
Bill Needham was a professional ice hockey coach best known for his role behind the bench of the World Hockey Association’s Cleveland Crusaders.
E1018184 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: Bill Needham | Statement: [Cleveland Crusaders, notableCoach, Bill Needham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Needham
Context triple: [Cleveland Crusaders, notableCoach, Bill Needham]
  • A. Bill Roe
    Bill Roe is a cinematographer known for his work on films and television series, including the 2005 superhero film "Elektra."
  • B. Thomas Kinnear
    Thomas Kinnear is a fictional Canadian gentleman and murder victim in Margaret Atwood’s novel "Alias Grace," whose death is central to the story’s mystery.
  • C. Bill Rammell
    Bill Rammell is a British Labour politician who served as a government minister in several defence and foreign affairs roles during the 2000s.
  • D. Jim McKelvey
    Jim McKelvey is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the financial technology company Square (now Block, Inc.), as well as a philanthropist and author.
  • E. John Neilson
    John Neilson was a prominent 19th-century Quebec printer, newspaper editor, and political figure who served as a reform-minded member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.
  • 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: Bill Needham
Triple: [Cleveland Crusaders, notableCoach, Bill Needham]
Generated description
Bill Needham was a professional ice hockey coach best known for his role behind the bench of the World Hockey Association’s Cleveland Crusaders.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Needham
Target entity description: Bill Needham was a professional ice hockey coach best known for his role behind the bench of the World Hockey Association’s Cleveland Crusaders.
  • A. Bill Roe
    Bill Roe is a cinematographer known for his work on films and television series, including the 2005 superhero film "Elektra."
  • B. Thomas Kinnear
    Thomas Kinnear is a fictional Canadian gentleman and murder victim in Margaret Atwood’s novel "Alias Grace," whose death is central to the story’s mystery.
  • C. Bill Rammell
    Bill Rammell is a British Labour politician who served as a government minister in several defence and foreign affairs roles during the 2000s.
  • D. Jim McKelvey
    Jim McKelvey is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the financial technology company Square (now Block, Inc.), as well as a philanthropist and author.
  • E. John Neilson
    John Neilson was a prominent 19th-century Quebec printer, newspaper editor, and political figure who served as a reform-minded member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.
  • 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_69d8076e64308190904fb5c93517c901 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98050157c8190bb8c640b759ac2b7 completed April 10, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6cbd720248190a23a07dadc7e1348 completed May 3, 2026, 4:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6cd706f548190af79efa973434af9 completed May 3, 2026, 4:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6ce23ca208190960409130c4c52a9 completed May 3, 2026, 4:25 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:56 p.m.