Triple

T13181537
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball E313738 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Josh Howard
Josh Howard is a former American professional basketball player best known for his NBA All-Star tenure with the Dallas Mavericks after a standout college career at Wake Forest University.
E1026229 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: Josh Howard | Statement: [Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Josh Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Josh Howard
Context triple: [Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Josh Howard]
  • A. Juwan Howard
    Juwan Howard is a former NBA All-Star forward and member of the famed "Fab Five" at the University of Michigan who later became the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team.
  • B. Paul Hickson
    Paul Hickson is an astronomer best known for creating the influential Hickson Compact Group catalogue of small, dense galaxy groups.
  • C. Jason Antoon
    Jason Antoon is an American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in romantic comedies and crime dramas.
  • D. Matt Howard
    Matt Howard is a former American college basketball player best known as a standout forward for Butler University during its back-to-back NCAA Tournament title game runs in 2010 and 2011.
  • E. Matt Howard
    Matt Howard is the central protagonist of the historical drama film "The Howards of Virginia," depicting an American colonist whose life and family are shaped by the events of the Revolutionary War.
  • 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: Josh Howard
Triple: [Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball, notableAlumnus, Josh Howard]
Generated description
Josh Howard is a former American professional basketball player best known for his NBA All-Star tenure with the Dallas Mavericks after a standout college career at Wake Forest University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Josh Howard
Target entity description: Josh Howard is a former American professional basketball player best known for his NBA All-Star tenure with the Dallas Mavericks after a standout college career at Wake Forest University.
  • A. Juwan Howard
    Juwan Howard is a former NBA All-Star forward and member of the famed "Fab Five" at the University of Michigan who later became the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team.
  • B. Paul Hickson
    Paul Hickson is an astronomer best known for creating the influential Hickson Compact Group catalogue of small, dense galaxy groups.
  • C. Jason Antoon
    Jason Antoon is an American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in romantic comedies and crime dramas.
  • D. Matt Howard
    Matt Howard is a former American college basketball player best known as a standout forward for Butler University during its back-to-back NCAA Tournament title game runs in 2010 and 2011.
  • E. Matt Howard
    Matt Howard is the central protagonist of the historical drama film "The Howards of Virginia," depicting an American colonist whose life and family are shaped by the events of the Revolutionary War.
  • 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_69d806ae1e08819090d95bfe1538cc17 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98c490ed081908ea54edb25c3de90 completed April 10, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6f5ee66188190afb75a598a2f8211 completed May 3, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6f6e10f2481909b405169dd7e5cf9 completed May 3, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6f73b301881909d792dfebd2e468f completed May 3, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:14 p.m.