Triple

T1646356
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nick Nurse E35590 entity
Predicate coachedTeam P2169 FINISHED
Object Birmingham Bullets
The Birmingham Bullets were a professional basketball team based in Birmingham, England, that competed in the British Basketball League.
E185597 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: Birmingham Bullets | Statement: [Nick Nurse, coachedTeam, Birmingham Bullets]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Birmingham Bullets
Context triple: [Nick Nurse, coachedTeam, Birmingham Bullets]
  • A. Baltimore Bullets
    The Baltimore Bullets were a professional basketball team that played in the 1940s–1950s and later became part of the early NBA before folding.
  • B. Providence Steamrollers
    The Providence Steamrollers were a short-lived professional basketball team that competed in the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the modern NBA, during the late 1940s.
  • C. Chicago Stags
    The Chicago Stags were a professional basketball team based in Chicago that competed in the late 1940s and early NBA era before folding in 1950.
  • D. Virginia Squires
    The Virginia Squires were a professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s, known for featuring stars like Julius Erving and George Gervin.
  • E. Indiana Pacers (ABA)
    The Indiana Pacers (ABA) were a successful professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association, known as one of the league’s premier franchises before joining the NBA.
  • 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: Birmingham Bullets
Triple: [Nick Nurse, coachedTeam, Birmingham Bullets]
Generated description
The Birmingham Bullets were a professional basketball team based in Birmingham, England, that competed in the British Basketball League.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Birmingham Bullets
Target entity description: The Birmingham Bullets were a professional basketball team based in Birmingham, England, that competed in the British Basketball League.
  • A. Baltimore Bullets
    The Baltimore Bullets were a professional basketball team that played in the 1940s–1950s and later became part of the early NBA before folding.
  • B. Providence Steamrollers
    The Providence Steamrollers were a short-lived professional basketball team that competed in the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the modern NBA, during the late 1940s.
  • C. Chicago Stags
    The Chicago Stags were a professional basketball team based in Chicago that competed in the late 1940s and early NBA era before folding in 1950.
  • D. Virginia Squires
    The Virginia Squires were a professional basketball team that competed in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s, known for featuring stars like Julius Erving and George Gervin.
  • E. Indiana Pacers (ABA)
    The Indiana Pacers (ABA) were a successful professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association, known as one of the league’s premier franchises before joining the NBA.
  • 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_69a88604618c81908b41f6429c431eb6 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a62b26c8190bf97bb80c228b47e completed March 5, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad60a4bd5481908b46f44364c15592 completed March 8, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad617fea508190ae6fa86cf9ea814a completed March 8, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad62028a448190a0c3f0dadae6a741 completed March 8, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.