Triple

T183523
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1948–49 BAA season E3928 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Jim Pollard
Jim Pollard was an American professional basketball forward, best known as a Hall of Famer and key early star of the Minneapolis Lakers dynasty.
 E104606 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: Jim Pollard | Statement: [1948–49 BAA season, notablePlayer, Jim Pollard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jim Pollard
Context triple: [1948–49 BAA season, notablePlayer, Jim Pollard]
  • A. Brian Pippard
    Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
  • B. Peter Sargeant
    Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
  • C. Tim McClelland
    Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
  • D. Sam Wheeler
    Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
  • E. Robert Paul Smith
    Robert Paul Smith was an American author and playwright best known for his humorous novels and plays, including the work that inspired the romantic comedy "The Tender Trap."
  • 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: Jim Pollard
Triple: [1948–49 BAA season, notablePlayer, Jim Pollard]
Generated description
Jim Pollard was an American professional basketball forward, best known as a Hall of Famer and key early star of the Minneapolis Lakers dynasty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jim Pollard
Target entity description: Jim Pollard was an American professional basketball forward, best known as a Hall of Famer and key early star of the Minneapolis Lakers dynasty.
  • A. Brian Pippard
    Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
  • B. Peter Sargeant
    Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
  • C. Tim McClelland
    Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
  • D. Sam Wheeler
    Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
  • E. Robert Paul Smith
    Robert Paul Smith was an American author and playwright best known for his humorous novels and plays, including the work that inspired the romantic comedy "The Tender Trap."
  • 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_69a25497e2f08190a040f8c6e1842643 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25926be9c8190a4cfce66f57589d1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7bffe8a488190939b1a778db4f517 completed March 4, 2026, 5:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7c0bea40481908df44214da39135e completed March 4, 2026, 5:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7c125de38819084897b25887dea0e completed March 4, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:40 a.m.