Triple

T160470
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Basketball Association E3272 entity
Predicate hadFranchise P6217 FINISHED
Object Carolina Cougars
The Carolina Cougars were a professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association during the early 1970s, representing various cities in North Carolina.
E20368 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: Carolina Cougars | Statement: [American Basketball Association, hadFranchise, Carolina Cougars]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carolina Cougars
Context triple: [American Basketball Association, hadFranchise, Carolina Cougars]
  • A. St. Louis Bombers
    The St. Louis Bombers were a professional basketball team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that played in the late 1940s and early 1950s and were part of the early history of what became the NBA.
  • B. Jacksonville Jaguars
    The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville that competes in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the AFC South division.
  • C. Dallas Chaparrals
    The Dallas Chaparrals were a professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association before eventually becoming the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA.
  • D. Capital City Go-Go
    Capital City Go-Go is a professional NBA G League basketball team based in Washington, D.C., serving as the developmental affiliate of the Washington Wizards.
  • E. Tri-City Americans
    The Tri-City Americans are a major junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League based in Kennewick, Washington.
  • 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: Carolina Cougars
Triple: [American Basketball Association, hadFranchise, Carolina Cougars]
Generated description
The Carolina Cougars were a professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association during the early 1970s, representing various cities in North Carolina.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carolina Cougars
Target entity description: The Carolina Cougars were a professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association during the early 1970s, representing various cities in North Carolina.
  • A. St. Louis Bombers
    The St. Louis Bombers were a professional basketball team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that played in the late 1940s and early 1950s and were part of the early history of what became the NBA.
  • B. Jacksonville Jaguars
    The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville that competes in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the AFC South division.
  • C. Dallas Chaparrals
    The Dallas Chaparrals were a professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association before eventually becoming the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA.
  • D. Capital City Go-Go
    Capital City Go-Go is a professional NBA G League basketball team based in Washington, D.C., serving as the developmental affiliate of the Washington Wizards.
  • E. Tri-City Americans
    The Tri-City Americans are a major junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League based in Kennewick, Washington.
  • 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_69a2527757ec819090b8becb2cf1a862 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:27 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25bae79b48190abfd247410e5918f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2db53aaf081909577b743e3660e5c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2dbc0d1a881908d47bb4ebe2e3a26 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2dc307978819091019dff30f84e57 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:14 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.