Triple

T13942113
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 2020 Major League Soccer season E335281 entity
Predicate playoffConference P112347 FINISHED
Object Western Conference
The Western Conference is one of Major League Soccer's two regional groupings of teams that compete against each other during the regular season and in the league's playoff structure.
E4240 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: Western Conference | Statement: [2020 Major League Soccer season, playoffConference, Western Conference]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Conference
Context triple: [2020 Major League Soccer season, playoffConference, Western Conference]
  • A. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two primary competitive groupings in the NBA G League, comprising teams largely based in the western United States.
  • B. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two primary competitive groupings of teams in the National Hockey League, comprising franchises mainly based in the western regions of North America.
  • C. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two main regional groupings of teams that compete in Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League play.
  • D. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two primary conferences in the American Hockey League, grouping together teams largely based in the western regions of North America for regular-season and playoff competition.
  • E. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the primary competitive groupings used to organize teams within certain American football leagues, including the Alliance of American Football.
  • 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: Western Conference
Triple: [2020 Major League Soccer season, playoffConference, Western Conference]
Generated description
The Western Conference is one of Major League Soccer's two regional groupings of teams that compete against each other during the regular season and in the league's playoff structure.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Conference
Target entity description: The Western Conference is one of Major League Soccer's two regional groupings of teams that compete against each other during the regular season and in the league's playoff structure.
  • A. Western Conference chosen
    The Western Conference is one of the two regional groupings of teams that compete in Major League Soccer in the United States and Canada.
  • B. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two primary conferences in the Western Hockey League, grouping together teams from the league’s western regions for regular-season and playoff competition.
  • C. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two regional groupings of teams in the Ontario Hockey League, used to organize regular-season play and determine playoff matchups.
  • D. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two primary conferences in major North American sports leagues, typically comprising teams from the western regions that compete for a spot in the league’s championship series.
  • E. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two primary competitive groupings in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, comprising teams from the league’s western geographic region.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d81c6081b88190b53e317c3370c8fe completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2cf6e29881908ddb8efca9a456a3 completed April 14, 2026, 12:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fba1ca49a881909e77b5a2ae13265f completed May 6, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fba6e596a081909843ea5173e60af4 completed May 6, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fba74fe350819080eee658bca7eaf0 completed May 6, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:17 p.m.