Triple

T2514633
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject World Football League E52783 entity
Predicate hadFranchise P6217 FINISHED
Object Birmingham Vulcans
The Birmingham Vulcans were a professional American football team based in Birmingham, Alabama that played in the short-lived World Football League in the mid-1970s.
E276445 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: Birmingham Vulcans | Statement: [World Football League, hadFranchise, Birmingham Vulcans]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Birmingham Vulcans
Context triple: [World Football League, hadFranchise, Birmingham Vulcans]
  • A. Birmingham Americans
    The Birmingham Americans were a short-lived professional American football team based in Birmingham, Alabama that played in the World Football League in the mid-1970s.
  • B. Birmingham Bullets
    The Birmingham Bullets were a professional basketball team based in Birmingham, England, that competed in the British Basketball League.
  • C. Birmingham Legion
    Birmingham Legion is a professional soccer club based in Birmingham, Alabama, that competes in the USL Championship, the second tier of the American soccer league system.
  • D. Tulsa Shock
    The Tulsa Shock were a professional women's basketball team that competed in the WNBA before relocating and becoming the Dallas Wings.
  • E. St. Louis Bombers
    The St. Louis Bombers were a professional basketball team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that played in the late 1940s and early 1950s and were part of the early history of what became the NBA.
  • 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: Birmingham Vulcans
Triple: [World Football League, hadFranchise, Birmingham Vulcans]
Generated description
The Birmingham Vulcans were a professional American football team based in Birmingham, Alabama that played in the short-lived World Football League in the mid-1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Birmingham Vulcans
Target entity description: The Birmingham Vulcans were a professional American football team based in Birmingham, Alabama that played in the short-lived World Football League in the mid-1970s.
  • A. Birmingham Americans
    The Birmingham Americans were a short-lived professional American football team based in Birmingham, Alabama that played in the World Football League in the mid-1970s.
  • B. Birmingham Bullets
    The Birmingham Bullets were a professional basketball team based in Birmingham, England, that competed in the British Basketball League.
  • C. Birmingham Legion
    Birmingham Legion is a professional soccer club based in Birmingham, Alabama, that competes in the USL Championship, the second tier of the American soccer league system.
  • D. Tulsa Shock
    The Tulsa Shock were a professional women's basketball team that competed in the WNBA before relocating and becoming the Dallas Wings.
  • E. St. Louis Bombers
    The St. Louis Bombers were a professional basketball team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that played in the late 1940s and early 1950s and were part of the early history of what became the NBA.
  • 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_69ab4958e76481908a235377dd921c9e completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd20c8ab0819096d6a654039beb39 completed March 7, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af5ce8ca7081908f9c2550276352d5 completed March 9, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af5db1c290819099d88815ebe97c1b completed March 9, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af5e2cd2588190bc24c3cdd350fa70 completed March 9, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:46 p.m.