Triple

T143690
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Portland Trail Blazers E2906 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Bill Walton
Bill Walton is a Hall of Fame American basketball center known for his dominant play in the 1970s, including leading the Portland Trail Blazers to an NBA championship, and later for his colorful career as a sports broadcaster.
 E27295 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 Walton | Statement: [Portland Trail Blazers, notablePlayer, Bill Walton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bill Walton
Context triple: [Portland Trail Blazers, notablePlayer, Bill Walton]
  • A. Robert Parish
    Robert Parish is a Hall of Fame NBA center best known as a key member of the Boston Celtics' 1980s championship teams and for holding the league record for most games played.
  • B. Bill Russell
    Bill Russell was a legendary American basketball center who led the Boston Celtics to 11 NBA championships and is widely regarded as one of the greatest defensive players in the sport’s history.
  • C. Elvin Hayes
    Elvin Hayes is a Hall of Fame American basketball player renowned as one of the NBA’s dominant power forwards of the 1970s, particularly for his scoring, rebounding, and key role in leading the Washington Bullets to the 1978 championship.
  • D. Dave Cowens
    Dave Cowens is a Hall of Fame NBA center and power forward best known for leading the Boston Celtics to two championships in the 1970s with his relentless hustle and all-around play.
  • E. Larry Bird
    Larry Bird is a legendary Hall of Fame basketball player widely regarded as one of the greatest in NBA history, known for his scoring, playmaking, and fierce competitiveness during the 1980s.
  • 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 Walton
Triple: [Portland Trail Blazers, notablePlayer, Bill Walton]
Generated description
Bill Walton is a Hall of Fame American basketball center known for his dominant play in the 1970s, including leading the Portland Trail Blazers to an NBA championship, and later for his colorful career as a sports broadcaster.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bill Walton
Target entity description: Bill Walton is a Hall of Fame American basketball center known for his dominant play in the 1970s, including leading the Portland Trail Blazers to an NBA championship, and later for his colorful career as a sports broadcaster.
  • A. Robert Parish
    Robert Parish is a Hall of Fame NBA center best known as a key member of the Boston Celtics' 1980s championship teams and for holding the league record for most games played.
  • B. Bill Russell
    Bill Russell was a legendary American basketball center who led the Boston Celtics to 11 NBA championships and is widely regarded as one of the greatest defensive players in the sport’s history.
  • C. Elvin Hayes
    Elvin Hayes is a Hall of Fame American basketball player renowned as one of the NBA’s dominant power forwards of the 1970s, particularly for his scoring, rebounding, and key role in leading the Washington Bullets to the 1978 championship.
  • D. Dave Cowens
    Dave Cowens is a Hall of Fame NBA center and power forward best known for leading the Boston Celtics to two championships in the 1970s with his relentless hustle and all-around play.
  • E. Larry Bird
    Larry Bird is a legendary Hall of Fame basketball player widely regarded as one of the greatest in NBA history, known for his scoring, playmaking, and fierce competitiveness during the 1980s.
  • 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_69a2521e35c08190b28e5c9f1e3c9b59 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a257caf678819092e975d5167f9df4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a338e55004819096a8cc1bfec7a225 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a33cc26d94819091e6d73074babedb completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a33d2fa67081909b9f88606b18ba93 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.