Triple

T3457606
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boston Red Stockings E72942 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Al Spalding
Al Spalding was a 19th-century American baseball pitcher and sporting-goods magnate who became one of the game's earliest stars and influential promoters.
E359811 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: Al Spalding | Statement: [Boston Red Stockings, notablePlayer, Al Spalding]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Al Spalding
Context triple: [Boston Red Stockings, notablePlayer, Al Spalding]
  • A. Kirk Hinrich
    Kirk Hinrich is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his standout college career at Kansas and his long NBA tenure with the Chicago Bulls.
  • B. Shaun Donovan
    Shaun Donovan is an American public official and housing policy expert who served as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama.
  • C. Anthony Parker
    Anthony Parker is a former NBA shooting guard who transitioned into basketball operations and now serves as a front-office executive and general manager in the league.
  • D. Maye
    Maye is the first name of Maye Musk, a Canadian-South African model and dietitian known for her long-running fashion career and as the mother of entrepreneur Elon Musk.
  • E. Patty Mills
    Patty Mills is an Australian professional basketball player and NBA champion known for his sharpshooting and leadership, particularly during his long tenure with the San Antonio Spurs and the Australian national team.
  • 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: Al Spalding
Triple: [Boston Red Stockings, notablePlayer, Al Spalding]
Generated description
Al Spalding was a 19th-century American baseball pitcher and sporting-goods magnate who became one of the game's earliest stars and influential promoters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Al Spalding
Target entity description: Al Spalding was a 19th-century American baseball pitcher and sporting-goods magnate who became one of the game's earliest stars and influential promoters.
  • A. Kirk Hinrich
    Kirk Hinrich is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his standout college career at Kansas and his long NBA tenure with the Chicago Bulls.
  • B. Shaun Donovan
    Shaun Donovan is an American public official and housing policy expert who served as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama.
  • C. Anthony Parker
    Anthony Parker is a former NBA shooting guard who transitioned into basketball operations and now serves as a front-office executive and general manager in the league.
  • D. Maye
    Maye is the first name of Maye Musk, a Canadian-South African model and dietitian known for her long-running fashion career and as the mother of entrepreneur Elon Musk.
  • E. Patty Mills
    Patty Mills is an Australian professional basketball player and NBA champion known for his sharpshooting and leadership, particularly during his long tenure with the San Antonio Spurs and the Australian national team.
  • 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_69ad85b12a908190a1d10a6b03b4f8ae completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbae36e748190bf20fd3c6de22e19 completed March 8, 2026, 6:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b36104a1048190b6fa9f552786a85a completed March 13, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b364c6c2f881909b72a78123cd445d completed March 13, 2026, 1:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b365328b188190b44d8690eaa5b12e completed March 13, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:16 p.m.