Triple

T1937356
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maryland Terrapins men's basketball E41471 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Tom McMillen
Tom McMillen is a former American basketball star, Rhodes Scholar, and U.S. Congressman who gained prominence at the University of Maryland before playing in the NBA and entering politics.
E222298 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: Tom McMillen | Statement: [Maryland Terrapins men's basketball, notablePlayer, Tom McMillen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom McMillen
Context triple: [Maryland Terrapins men's basketball, notablePlayer, Tom McMillen]
  • A. Thomas Richard McMillen
    Thomas Richard McMillen is the birth name of American actor Thomas Haden Church, known for his roles in films like "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3" and the TV series "Wings."
  • B. Scott Barnes
    Scott Barnes is an American college athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director at Oregon State University and has previously held similar roles at several other universities.
  • C. Jeff Richmond
    Jeff Richmond is an American composer, producer, and director known for his work on television comedies such as "30 Rock" and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."
  • D. Merv Jackson
    Merv Jackson was a professional basketball guard best known for his key role with the Utah Stars in the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the early 1970s.
  • E. Mitch Richmond
    Mitch Richmond is a Hall of Fame shooting guard best known for his prolific scoring and six consecutive All-Star appearances in the 1990s 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: Tom McMillen
Triple: [Maryland Terrapins men's basketball, notablePlayer, Tom McMillen]
Generated description
Tom McMillen is a former American basketball star, Rhodes Scholar, and U.S. Congressman who gained prominence at the University of Maryland before playing in the NBA and entering politics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom McMillen
Target entity description: Tom McMillen is a former American basketball star, Rhodes Scholar, and U.S. Congressman who gained prominence at the University of Maryland before playing in the NBA and entering politics.
  • A. Thomas Richard McMillen
    Thomas Richard McMillen is the birth name of American actor Thomas Haden Church, known for his roles in films like "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3" and the TV series "Wings."
  • B. Scott Barnes
    Scott Barnes is an American college athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director at Oregon State University and has previously held similar roles at several other universities.
  • C. Jeff Richmond
    Jeff Richmond is an American composer, producer, and director known for his work on television comedies such as "30 Rock" and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."
  • D. Merv Jackson
    Merv Jackson was a professional basketball guard best known for his key role with the Utah Stars in the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the early 1970s.
  • E. Mitch Richmond
    Mitch Richmond is a Hall of Fame shooting guard best known for his prolific scoring and six consecutive All-Star appearances in the 1990s 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_69a88649b24c819080047f26b6db2ded completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb2c752fc81909baf38ff1cdeb18c completed March 7, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0315bb6c8190aa5571fe631a7310 completed March 8, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae03b41dcc81909b4439006bdffc64 completed March 8, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae044314188190a7472cf5f8e89f6c completed March 8, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.