Triple

T22212692
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject NBL Finals 1938 E548993 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object NBL Finals 1939
The NBL Finals 1939 was the championship series of the 1938–39 National Basketball League season, determining that year's professional basketball champion in the United States.
E508221 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: NBL Finals 1939 | Statement: [NBL Finals 1938, followedBy, NBL Finals 1939]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: NBL Finals 1939
Context triple: [NBL Finals 1938, followedBy, NBL Finals 1939]
  • A. NBL finals 1938
    The NBL Finals 1938 was the championship series of the National Basketball League’s 1937–38 season, determining the league’s early professional basketball title.
  • B. NBL Finals
    The NBL Finals are the championship series of Australia's National Basketball League, determining the season's overall winner.
  • C. 1938–39 NBL season
    The 1938–39 NBL season was an early professional basketball campaign in the National Basketball League, a predecessor to the modern NBA.
  • D. National Basketball League 1948–1949
    The National Basketball League 1948–1949 season was a professional basketball campaign in the pre-NBA era, featuring Midwestern teams like the Waterloo Hawks before the league merged with the Basketball Association of America to form the NBA.
  • E. NBL All-Star teams
    NBL All-Star teams were representative basketball squads in Australia's National Basketball League composed of the league's top-performing players selected to compete in showcase All-Star events.
  • 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: NBL Finals 1939
Triple: [NBL Finals 1938, followedBy, NBL Finals 1939]
Generated description
The NBL Finals 1939 was the championship series of the 1938–39 National Basketball League season, determining that year's professional basketball champion in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: NBL Finals 1939
Target entity description: The NBL Finals 1939 was the championship series of the 1938–39 National Basketball League season, determining that year's professional basketball champion in the United States.
  • A. NBL finals 1938
    The NBL Finals 1938 was the championship series of the National Basketball League’s 1937–38 season, determining the league’s early professional basketball title.
  • B. NBL Finals
    The NBL Finals are the championship series of Australia's National Basketball League, determining the season's overall winner.
  • C. 1938–39 NBL season chosen
    The 1938–39 NBL season was an early professional basketball campaign in the National Basketball League, a predecessor to the modern NBA.
  • D. National Basketball League 1948–1949
    The National Basketball League 1948–1949 season was a professional basketball campaign in the pre-NBA era, featuring Midwestern teams like the Waterloo Hawks before the league merged with the Basketball Association of America to form the NBA.
  • E. NBL All-Star teams
    NBL All-Star teams were representative basketball squads in Australia's National Basketball League composed of the league's top-performing players selected to compete in showcase All-Star events.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e11e3f7e04819089806d81d5ac431e completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f12b2c8b608190b0047af4ac91b023 completed April 28, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0aae66ee5c8190be56910aaecce5d6 completed May 18, 2026, 6:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0aaf2f24588190a08dc5158603ee9b completed May 18, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ab02b3ba48190a8d462a5f68995f2 completed May 18, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:36 p.m.