Triple

T1412993
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject NBA referees E31845 entity
Predicate governingBody P46 FINISHED
Object NBA Referee Operations
NBA Referee Operations is the department within the National Basketball Association responsible for overseeing, managing, and evaluating the league’s officiating program and referees.
 E31845 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: NBA Referee Operations | Statement: [NBA referees, governingBody, NBA Referee Operations]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: NBA Referee Operations
Context triple: [NBA referees, governingBody, NBA Referee Operations]
  • A. NBA referees
    NBA referees are professional officials responsible for enforcing the league’s rules, maintaining game flow, and ensuring fair play during National Basketball Association games.
  • B. Commissioner of the National Basketball Association
    The Commissioner of the National Basketball Association is the league’s chief executive responsible for overseeing all operations, enforcing rules and policies, negotiating major business deals, and shaping the overall direction of professional basketball in the NBA.
  • C. NBA Board of Governors
    The NBA Board of Governors is the league’s governing body composed primarily of team owners, responsible for setting policies, approving major decisions, and overseeing the overall direction of the National Basketball Association.
  • D. NBA rules
    NBA rules are the official regulations that govern how professional basketball is played, officiated, and organized in the National Basketball Association.
  • E. Professional Referee Organization
    The Professional Referee Organization is the body responsible for managing and assigning professional soccer match officials in the United States and Canada, particularly for Major League Soccer.
  • 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: NBA Referee Operations
Triple: [NBA referees, governingBody, NBA Referee Operations]
Generated description
NBA Referee Operations is the department within the National Basketball Association responsible for overseeing, managing, and evaluating the league’s officiating program and referees.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: NBA Referee Operations
Target entity description: NBA Referee Operations is the department within the National Basketball Association responsible for overseeing, managing, and evaluating the league’s officiating program and referees.
  • A. NBA referees chosen
    NBA referees are professional officials responsible for enforcing the league’s rules, maintaining game flow, and ensuring fair play during National Basketball Association games.
  • B. Commissioner of the National Basketball Association
    The Commissioner of the National Basketball Association is the league’s chief executive responsible for overseeing all operations, enforcing rules and policies, negotiating major business deals, and shaping the overall direction of professional basketball in the NBA.
  • C. NBA Board of Governors
    The NBA Board of Governors is the league’s governing body composed primarily of team owners, responsible for setting policies, approving major decisions, and overseeing the overall direction of the National Basketball Association.
  • D. NBA rules
    NBA rules are the official regulations that govern how professional basketball is played, officiated, and organized in the National Basketball Association.
  • E. Professional Referee Organization
    The Professional Referee Organization is the body responsible for managing and assigning professional soccer match officials in the United States and Canada, particularly for Major League Soccer.
  • 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_69a49919a994819086528951bc224775 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c3e476f08190aed1576805c62462 completed March 1, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ace57ec2d88190b06d0f20e3b52462 completed March 8, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ace5fc91d081909b33009d06a38616 completed March 8, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace6c10f54819089a4afcf49ef894f completed March 8, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.