Triple

T160471
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Basketball Association E3272 entity
Predicate hadFranchise P6217 FINISHED
Object Memphis Sounds
Memphis Sounds was a short-lived professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association during the mid-1970s.
E20021 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: Memphis Sounds | Statement: [American Basketball Association, hadFranchise, Memphis Sounds]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Memphis Sounds
Context triple: [American Basketball Association, hadFranchise, Memphis Sounds]
  • 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. Memphis
    Memphis is an ancient Egyptian capital near modern Cairo, renowned as a major political, religious, and cultural center and closely associated with the nearby pyramid fields and necropolises.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Birmingham Barons
    The Birmingham Barons are a Minor League Baseball team based in Birmingham, Alabama, historically known as a key affiliate in Major League farm systems and a staple of Southern baseball culture.
  • E. Portland Pirates
    The Portland Pirates were a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League based in Portland, Maine.
  • 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: Memphis Sounds
Triple: [American Basketball Association, hadFranchise, Memphis Sounds]
Generated description
Memphis Sounds was a short-lived professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association during the mid-1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Memphis Sounds
Target entity description: Memphis Sounds was a short-lived professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association during the mid-1970s.
  • 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. Memphis
    Memphis is an ancient Egyptian capital near modern Cairo, renowned as a major political, religious, and cultural center and closely associated with the nearby pyramid fields and necropolises.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Birmingham Barons
    The Birmingham Barons are a Minor League Baseball team based in Birmingham, Alabama, historically known as a key affiliate in Major League farm systems and a staple of Southern baseball culture.
  • E. Portland Pirates
    The Portland Pirates were a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League based in Portland, Maine.
  • 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_69a2d7343fc08190810b11d205e41d9a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2d85fc61c8190bb296df96fff2884 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2d8c00e048190806f991b4864763e completed Feb. 28, 2026, noon
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.