Triple

T15208012
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject West Division (Mid-American Conference) E363439 entity
Predicate conferenceAbbreviation P3613 FINISHED
Object MAC
MAC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Mid-American Conference, an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
E361573 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: MAC | Statement: [West Division (Mid-American Conference), conferenceAbbreviation, MAC]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: MAC
Context triple: [West Division (Mid-American Conference), conferenceAbbreviation, MAC]
  • A. MAC
    MAC is the acronym for the Military Armistice Commission, the body responsible for supervising the implementation of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
  • B. MAC
    The MAC is a regional museum in Spokane, Washington, featuring art, history, and cultural exhibits focused on the Inland Northwest.
  • C. MAC
    MAC is the common abbreviation for the Macon Bacon, a collegiate summer baseball team based in Macon, Georgia.
  • D. MAC
    The MAC is an NCAA Division III athletic conference in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States, sponsoring intercollegiate sports among its member colleges and universities.
  • E. MAC
    MAC is the IATA airport code for Macon Downtown Airport, a public airport serving the city of Macon, Georgia, in the United States.
  • 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: MAC
Triple: [West Division (Mid-American Conference), conferenceAbbreviation, MAC]
Generated description
MAC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Mid-American Conference, an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: MAC
Target entity description: MAC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Mid-American Conference, an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
  • A. MAC chosen
    The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that sponsors NCAA Division I sports, primarily among universities in the Midwest.
  • B. MAC
    The MAC is an NCAA Division III athletic conference in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States, sponsoring intercollegiate sports among its member colleges and universities.
  • C. MAC
    MAC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities, a cultural organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the historic and artistic heritage of the Mid-Atlantic region.
  • D. MAC
    MAC is the common abbreviation for the Macon Bacon, a collegiate summer baseball team based in Macon, Georgia.
  • E. MAC
    MAC is the common abbreviation for the Macon Mayhem, a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Macon, Georgia.
  • 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_69d85a0b78bc8190b6e5ad51a2c4cfc5 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e006b8e2788190bd1831762e4181ae completed April 15, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fed33dbda08190a10ba81082d0d183 completed May 9, 2026, 6:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fed47c88d08190a4396b955c9bb388 completed May 9, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fed50956408190b1426d578803974e completed May 9, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:11 a.m.