Triple

T2078985
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball E45194 entity
Predicate notableCoach P550 FINISHED
Object Ralph Willard
Ralph Willard is an American college basketball coach best known for successful head coaching stints at programs such as Western Kentucky, Pittsburgh, and Holy Cross.
E231843 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: Ralph Willard | Statement: [Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball, notableCoach, Ralph Willard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ralph Willard
Context triple: [Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball, notableCoach, Ralph Willard]
  • A. Joseph Swing
    Joseph Swing was a U.S. Army general and later Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, best known for directing large-scale immigration enforcement efforts in the 1950s.
  • B. James McNair Baker
    James McNair Baker was a 19th-century American jurist and politician from Florida, notably serving as a Confederate senator during the Civil War.
  • C. John Foster Archbold
    John Foster Archbold was the son of American oil magnate and Standard Oil executive John Dustin Archbold.
  • D. Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
    Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
  • E. Wallace Harrison
    Wallace Harrison was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for leading major modernist projects in New York City, including significant civic and cultural landmarks.
  • 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: Ralph Willard
Triple: [Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball, notableCoach, Ralph Willard]
Generated description
Ralph Willard is an American college basketball coach best known for successful head coaching stints at programs such as Western Kentucky, Pittsburgh, and Holy Cross.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ralph Willard
Target entity description: Ralph Willard is an American college basketball coach best known for successful head coaching stints at programs such as Western Kentucky, Pittsburgh, and Holy Cross.
  • A. Joseph Swing
    Joseph Swing was a U.S. Army general and later Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, best known for directing large-scale immigration enforcement efforts in the 1950s.
  • B. James McNair Baker
    James McNair Baker was a 19th-century American jurist and politician from Florida, notably serving as a Confederate senator during the Civil War.
  • C. John Foster Archbold
    John Foster Archbold was the son of American oil magnate and Standard Oil executive John Dustin Archbold.
  • D. Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
    Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
  • E. Wallace Harrison
    Wallace Harrison was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for leading major modernist projects in New York City, including significant civic and cultural landmarks.
  • 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_69a8891869c88190a02643e3bb746f59 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abba3307308190ab329fe3192b2e0f completed March 7, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae27379d6c819088e01920aae0981a completed March 9, 2026, 1:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae28daeae88190bdb07375ab246981 completed March 9, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae294b3d0081909ceabda14c6bcf5e completed March 9, 2026, 1:58 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.