Triple

T2646957
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Cunningham E53806 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William John Cunningham
William John Cunningham is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known for his success with the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA.
E304163 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: William John Cunningham | Statement: [Billy Cunningham, fullName, William John Cunningham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William John Cunningham
Context triple: [Billy Cunningham, fullName, William John Cunningham]
  • A. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • B. Richard Lumsden
    Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
  • C. Francis Wallace Burns
    Francis Wallace Burns was one of the sons of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily through his connection to his father's legacy.
  • D. Matthew Stirling
    Matthew Stirling was an American archaeologist and ethnologist known for his pioneering excavations of Olmec sites in Mexico and his contributions to the study of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations.
  • E. Charles Ramsay
    Charles Ramsay is known primarily as the son of British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the World War II naval commander who helped orchestrate the Dunkirk evacuation and the Normandy landings.
  • 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: William John Cunningham
Triple: [Billy Cunningham, fullName, William John Cunningham]
Generated description
William John Cunningham is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known for his success with the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William John Cunningham
Target entity description: William John Cunningham is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known for his success with the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA.
  • A. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • B. Richard Lumsden
    Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
  • C. Francis Wallace Burns
    Francis Wallace Burns was one of the sons of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily through his connection to his father's legacy.
  • D. Matthew Stirling
    Matthew Stirling was an American archaeologist and ethnologist known for his pioneering excavations of Olmec sites in Mexico and his contributions to the study of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations.
  • E. Charles Ramsay
    Charles Ramsay is known primarily as the son of British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the World War II naval commander who helped orchestrate the Dunkirk evacuation and the Normandy landings.
  • 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_69ab495e192081909c77b622e8e7e15a completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd919bf2c81908feb768f3391e985 completed March 7, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afe88d510c81908cdd3337e0eaca2c completed March 10, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afe9d87eac8190a9373abab608f088 completed March 10, 2026, 9:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b00dff7bcc81909b578e7209850b17 completed March 10, 2026, 12:26 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.