Triple

T15685205
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject National Basketball League 1946–47 season E380179 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object National Basketball League 1947–48 season
The National Basketball League 1947–48 season was a professional basketball campaign in the United States that featured early predecessors of modern NBA franchises competing for the league championship.
E1171657 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: National Basketball League 1947–48 season | Statement: [National Basketball League 1946–47 season, followedBy, National Basketball League 1947–48 season]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National Basketball League 1947–48 season
Context triple: [National Basketball League 1946–47 season, followedBy, National Basketball League 1947–48 season]
  • A. National Basketball League 1946–47 season
    The National Basketball League 1946–47 season was the inaugural campaign of the NBL as a professional basketball league in the United States, featuring teams such as the Buffalo Bisons in early postwar competition.
  • B. National Basketball League 1948–1949
    The National Basketball League 1948–1949 season was a professional basketball campaign in the pre-NBA era, featuring Midwestern teams like the Waterloo Hawks before the league merged with the Basketball Association of America to form the NBA.
  • C. 1947–48 BAA season
    The 1947–48 BAA season was the second season of the Basketball Association of America, a predecessor to the NBA, featuring teams such as the Providence Steamrollers competing for the league championship.
  • D. American Basketball League (1944–1947)
    The American Basketball League (1944–1947) was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that operated in the mid-1940s and featured several prominent early franchises.
  • E. National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951
    The National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951 was a short-lived early professional basketball league in the United States that operated for a single season before folding.
  • 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: National Basketball League 1947–48 season
Triple: [National Basketball League 1946–47 season, followedBy, National Basketball League 1947–48 season]
Generated description
The National Basketball League 1947–48 season was a professional basketball campaign in the United States that featured early predecessors of modern NBA franchises competing for the league championship.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National Basketball League 1947–48 season
Target entity description: The National Basketball League 1947–48 season was a professional basketball campaign in the United States that featured early predecessors of modern NBA franchises competing for the league championship.
  • A. National Basketball League 1946–47 season
    The National Basketball League 1946–47 season was the inaugural campaign of the NBL as a professional basketball league in the United States, featuring teams such as the Buffalo Bisons in early postwar competition.
  • B. National Basketball League 1948–1949
    The National Basketball League 1948–1949 season was a professional basketball campaign in the pre-NBA era, featuring Midwestern teams like the Waterloo Hawks before the league merged with the Basketball Association of America to form the NBA.
  • C. 1947–48 BAA season
    The 1947–48 BAA season was the second season of the Basketball Association of America, a predecessor to the NBA, featuring teams such as the Providence Steamrollers competing for the league championship.
  • D. American Basketball League (1944–1947)
    The American Basketball League (1944–1947) was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that operated in the mid-1940s and featured several prominent early franchises.
  • E. National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951
    The National Professional Basketball League 1950–1951 was a short-lived early professional basketball league in the United States that operated for a single season before folding.
  • 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_69d86d99e860819094b6957cde470f2c completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04f4b73d881908ec0f21393a01969 completed April 16, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff6ee740e08190aa048b374ea7bfa0 completed May 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff70ae4d408190924aa3ef57b4e685 completed May 9, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff7132e48c81908c17ade46713bb13 completed May 9, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:44 a.m.