Triple

T22212876
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject NBA 1949–50 season E548999 entity
Predicate hadDivision P889 FINISHED
Object Western Division
Western Division was one of the two geographical groupings of teams that made up the National Basketball Association during its early seasons, including 1949–50.
E28761 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: Western Division | Statement: [NBA 1949–50 season, hadDivision, Western Division]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Division
Context triple: [NBA 1949–50 season, hadDivision, Western Division]
  • A. Western Division
    The Western Division is a regional branch of the United States District Court for the Central District of California that handles federal cases arising from a designated portion of the district’s geographic jurisdiction.
  • B. Western Division
    Western Division was one of the National Hockey League’s early divisional groupings, created during the league’s expansion era to organize teams primarily located in the western regions of North America.
  • C. Western Division
    The Western Division is a regional subdivision of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee that handles federal cases arising from its designated portion of the district.
  • D. Western Division
    The Western Division is a regional branch of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois that handles federal cases arising from the western portion of the district.
  • E. Western Division
    The Western Division was one of the National Football League’s primary geographic groupings of teams during the early 20th century, featuring franchises from the western and midwestern United States.
  • 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: Western Division
Triple: [NBA 1949–50 season, hadDivision, Western Division]
Generated description
Western Division was one of the two geographical groupings of teams that made up the National Basketball Association during its early seasons, including 1949–50.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Division
Target entity description: Western Division was one of the two geographical groupings of teams that made up the National Basketball Association during its early seasons, including 1949–50.
  • A. Western Division chosen
    Western Division was one of the regional groupings of teams that made up the early professional basketball league structure in what became the NBA.
  • B. Western Division
    Western Division was one of the National Hockey League’s early divisional groupings, created during the league’s expansion era to organize teams primarily located in the western regions of North America.
  • C. Western Division
    The Western Division was one of the National Football League’s primary geographic groupings of teams during the early 20th century, featuring franchises from the western and midwestern United States.
  • D. Western Division
    The Western Division was one of the two regional groupings of teams in the American Basketball Association during the 1967–68 season.
  • E. Western Division
    The Western Division was one of the two regional groupings of teams in the American Basketball Association, whose members competed in the 1973 ABA Playoffs.
  • 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_69f12b2d607c81909511761b5563ddee completed April 28, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0aa61ede44819090c46782098c5669 completed May 18, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0aa7bf054c8190b86297bb6469354b completed May 18, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0aa86fe4f88190b4356bff7abe5323 completed May 18, 2026, 5:49 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:36 p.m.