Triple
T3059960
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Western Division (NBA) |
E60573
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Western Division of the NBA |
E60573
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 of the NBA | Statement: [Western Division (NBA), alsoKnownAs, Western Division of the NBA]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Division of the NBA Context triple: [Western Division (NBA), alsoKnownAs, Western Division of the NBA]
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A.
Western Division of NBA
chosen
The Western Division of the NBA was one of the league’s early geographic groupings of teams, comprising franchises from the western and midwestern United States before the NBA reorganized into conferences and divisions.
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B.
Western Division (ABA)
Western Division (ABA) was one of the two primary conferences of the American Basketball Association, grouping together several of the league’s western-based professional basketball teams.
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C.
NBA Western Conference
The NBA Western Conference is one of the league’s two conferences, comprising teams primarily from the western United States and serving as a major competitive division in professional basketball.
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D.
Western Conference Midwest Division
The Western Conference Midwest Division was a former National Basketball Association (NBA) division that grouped several teams in the league’s Western Conference before later realignments created the current divisional structure.
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E.
Mountain West West Division
The Mountain West West Division was a former football division within the NCAA Division I FBS Mountain West Conference, grouping together several of the league’s western member schools.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ad8578137c81908259dcb27c7d6d7c |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ad9e9cf9188190b43f50edc009030d |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:06 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b20f45f6a08190a79df4c7a7846320 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 12:56 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.