Triple

T2476571
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Butch van Breda Kolff E55101 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object Jan van Breda Kolff
Jan van Breda Kolff is an American former professional basketball player and coach known for his collegiate coaching stints at schools such as Vanderbilt and Pepperdine.
 E277144 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: Jan van Breda Kolff | Statement: [Butch van Breda Kolff, relative, Jan van Breda Kolff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jan van Breda Kolff
Context triple: [Butch van Breda Kolff, relative, Jan van Breda Kolff]
  • A. William Van Breda Kolff
    William "Butch" van Breda Kolff was an American basketball coach best known for leading several NBA and college teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers, during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Johannes van der Meer
    Johannes van der Meer is another name for Johannes Vermeer, the renowned 17th-century Dutch painter celebrated for his masterful use of light and intimate domestic interior scenes.
  • C. Pieter Rijke
    Pieter Rijke was a Dutch physicist known for his work in acoustics and for inventing the Rijke tube, a device that demonstrates the conversion of heat into sound.
  • D. Gerardus Petrus Wilhelmus Koop
    Gerardus Petrus Wilhelmus Koop is an individual notable for bearing the Dutch surname "Koop," though specific widely recognized achievements or roles associated with him are not well documented.
  • E. Pieter van Vollenhoven
    Pieter van Vollenhoven is a Dutch academic, public servant, and member of the Dutch royal family by marriage, known for his work in safety and disaster investigation.
  • 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: Jan van Breda Kolff
Triple: [Butch van Breda Kolff, relative, Jan van Breda Kolff]
Generated description
Jan van Breda Kolff is an American former professional basketball player and coach known for his collegiate coaching stints at schools such as Vanderbilt and Pepperdine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jan van Breda Kolff
Target entity description: Jan van Breda Kolff is an American former professional basketball player and coach known for his collegiate coaching stints at schools such as Vanderbilt and Pepperdine.
  • A. William Van Breda Kolff
    William "Butch" van Breda Kolff was an American basketball coach best known for leading several NBA and college teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers, during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Johannes van der Meer
    Johannes van der Meer is another name for Johannes Vermeer, the renowned 17th-century Dutch painter celebrated for his masterful use of light and intimate domestic interior scenes.
  • C. Pieter Rijke
    Pieter Rijke was a Dutch physicist known for his work in acoustics and for inventing the Rijke tube, a device that demonstrates the conversion of heat into sound.
  • D. Gerardus Petrus Wilhelmus Koop
    Gerardus Petrus Wilhelmus Koop is an individual notable for bearing the Dutch surname "Koop," though specific widely recognized achievements or roles associated with him are not well documented.
  • E. Pieter van Vollenhoven
    Pieter van Vollenhoven is a Dutch academic, public servant, and member of the Dutch royal family by marriage, known for his work in safety and disaster investigation.
  • 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_69ab49e279e88190ab10d7248aea9d11 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd14dde208190ad4e1c9de5d43b0a completed March 7, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af5cdd404c8190b86f240789e68925 completed March 9, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af5e4965408190834cdeeae63a4d75 completed March 9, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af5e9d48dc8190a79b1f9eaba27978 completed March 9, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:45 p.m.