Triple

T16719626
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Niagara Purple Eagles men's ice hockey E406312 entity
Predicate notableCoach P550 FINISHED
Object Blaise MacDonald
Blaise MacDonald is an American ice hockey coach best known for his long collegiate coaching career, including successful tenures leading programs such as Niagara University and UMass Lowell.
E1230961 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: Blaise MacDonald | Statement: [Niagara Purple Eagles men's ice hockey, notableCoach, Blaise MacDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blaise MacDonald
Context triple: [Niagara Purple Eagles men's ice hockey, notableCoach, Blaise MacDonald]
  • A. Blaise Cronin
    Blaise Cronin is a prominent information scientist and bibliometrician known for his influential research on scholarly communication, citation analysis, and the evaluation of scientific impact.
  • B. Skip Macdonald
    Skip Macdonald is an American film and television editor best known for his work on the Breaking Bad franchise, including the film El Camino.
  • C. Miles Macdonell
    Miles Macdonell was a Scottish-born colonial governor best known for leading and administering the early 19th-century Selkirk-sponsored settlement at the Red River in what is now Manitoba, Canada.
  • D. Francis McAvennie
    Francis McAvennie is a former Scottish professional footballer best known as a prolific striker for clubs such as West Ham United and Celtic during the 1980s.
  • E. Duncan MacRae
    Duncan MacRae is a notable individual distinguished by achievements significant enough to be historically or culturally recognized under the surname MacRae.
  • 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: Blaise MacDonald
Triple: [Niagara Purple Eagles men's ice hockey, notableCoach, Blaise MacDonald]
Generated description
Blaise MacDonald is an American ice hockey coach best known for his long collegiate coaching career, including successful tenures leading programs such as Niagara University and UMass Lowell.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blaise MacDonald
Target entity description: Blaise MacDonald is an American ice hockey coach best known for his long collegiate coaching career, including successful tenures leading programs such as Niagara University and UMass Lowell.
  • A. Blaise Cronin
    Blaise Cronin is a prominent information scientist and bibliometrician known for his influential research on scholarly communication, citation analysis, and the evaluation of scientific impact.
  • B. Skip Macdonald
    Skip Macdonald is an American film and television editor best known for his work on the Breaking Bad franchise, including the film El Camino.
  • C. Miles Macdonell
    Miles Macdonell was a Scottish-born colonial governor best known for leading and administering the early 19th-century Selkirk-sponsored settlement at the Red River in what is now Manitoba, Canada.
  • D. Francis McAvennie
    Francis McAvennie is a former Scottish professional footballer best known as a prolific striker for clubs such as West Ham United and Celtic during the 1980s.
  • E. Duncan MacRae
    Duncan MacRae is a notable individual distinguished by achievements significant enough to be historically or culturally recognized under the surname MacRae.
  • 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_69d8838f242881908abd8bc138795886 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3865855108190bf8767b7b6c5fa10 completed April 18, 2026, 1:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a009d3f776c8190865a669fc63056b3 completed May 10, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a009e5990ac81909d2a990f8101e4bc completed May 10, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a009ef7d13081908ea758cd2cc11995 completed May 10, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:20 a.m.