Triple

T2815043

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball team	`E54261`	entity
Predicate	formerConference	`P3610`	FINISHED
Object	American South Conference The American South Conference was a short-lived NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the late 1980s and early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the southern United States before merging into the Sun Belt Conference.	`E300748`	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: American South Conference | Statement: [Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball team, formerConference, American South Conference]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: American South Conference
Context triple: [Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball team, formerConference, American South Conference]

A. Southern States Athletic Conference
The Southern States Athletic Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NAIA, featuring primarily small colleges and universities in the southeastern United States.
B. Southern Conference
The Southern Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference known for sponsoring Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs primarily in the southeastern United States.
C. Gulf South Conference
The Gulf South Conference is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference primarily composed of universities in the southeastern United States.
D. Big South Conference
The Big South Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising universities in the southeastern United States.
E. Southwestern Athletic Conference
The Southwestern Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States composed primarily of historically Black colleges and universities competing in NCAA Division I, particularly known for its football and basketball programs.
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: American South Conference
Triple: [Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball team, formerConference, American South Conference]

Generated description

The American South Conference was a short-lived NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the late 1980s and early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the southern United States before merging into the Sun Belt Conference.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: American South Conference
Target entity description: The American South Conference was a short-lived NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the late 1980s and early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the southern United States before merging into the Sun Belt Conference.

A. Southern States Athletic Conference
The Southern States Athletic Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NAIA, featuring primarily small colleges and universities in the southeastern United States.
B. Southern Conference
The Southern Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference known for sponsoring Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs primarily in the southeastern United States.
C. Gulf South Conference
The Gulf South Conference is an NCAA Division II collegiate athletic conference primarily composed of universities in the southeastern United States.
D. Big South Conference
The Big South Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference primarily comprising universities in the southeastern United States.
E. Southwestern Athletic Conference
The Southwestern Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States composed primarily of historically Black colleges and universities competing in NCAA Division I, particularly known for its football and basketball programs.
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_69ab49de0af08190b3da69683be1e728`	completed	March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69abde4d29488190a32461906dd9ea7e`	completed	March 7, 2026, 8:14 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69afce9f964081909e422aaf1f026dbb`	completed	March 10, 2026, 7:56 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69afcf12e3a0819098f28d31434a0c5f`	completed	March 10, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69afcf9c2d308190b111aa8038c9227a`	completed	March 10, 2026, 8 a.m.

Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:59 p.m.