Triple

T20562877
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1976–77 Montreal Canadiens E504888 entity
Predicate generalManager P537 FINISHED
Object Sam Pollock
Sam Pollock was a highly successful Canadian ice hockey executive best known for building the Montreal Canadiens dynasty of the 1960s and 1970s.
E1438674 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: Sam Pollock | Statement: [1976–77 Montreal Canadiens, generalManager, Sam Pollock]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Pollock
Context triple: [1976–77 Montreal Canadiens, generalManager, Sam Pollock]
  • A. Alexander Pollock
    Alexander Pollock is a Canadian former child actor best known for his role in the family comedy film "Cats & Dogs."
  • B. Rufus Pollock
    Rufus Pollock is a British economist, technologist, and open data advocate best known as a co-founder and leading figure in the global open knowledge and open government data movements.
  • C. Jack Holbrook
    Jack Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual known primarily as a namesake associated with the surname Holbrook.
  • D. John Dolman
    John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
  • E. Michael Alsbury
    Michael Alsbury was an American test pilot for Scaled Composites who was killed during a 2014 test flight of the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane.
  • 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: Sam Pollock
Triple: [1976–77 Montreal Canadiens, generalManager, Sam Pollock]
Generated description
Sam Pollock was a highly successful Canadian ice hockey executive best known for building the Montreal Canadiens dynasty of the 1960s and 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Pollock
Target entity description: Sam Pollock was a highly successful Canadian ice hockey executive best known for building the Montreal Canadiens dynasty of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • A. Alexander Pollock
    Alexander Pollock is a Canadian former child actor best known for his role in the family comedy film "Cats & Dogs."
  • B. Rufus Pollock
    Rufus Pollock is a British economist, technologist, and open data advocate best known as a co-founder and leading figure in the global open knowledge and open government data movements.
  • C. Jack Holbrook
    Jack Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual known primarily as a namesake associated with the surname Holbrook.
  • D. John Dolman
    John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
  • E. Michael Alsbury
    Michael Alsbury was an American test pilot for Scaled Composites who was killed during a 2014 test flight of the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane.
  • 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_69e0b4b6587c8190aee63dc7cff244ea completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6a79f906c819081163de9649ccb17 completed April 20, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08acdac8008190a7a61d46f7041cf4 completed May 16, 2026, 5:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08ada4ef648190982235ebe059a9c5 completed May 16, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08aeaf2be88190bac218c7de1544fc completed May 16, 2026, 5:51 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:39 a.m.