Triple

T3684622
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Buffalo Bisons E78193 entity
Predicate playedIn P2170 FINISHED
Object National Basketball League 1946–47 season
The National Basketball League 1946–47 season was the inaugural campaign of the NBL as a professional basketball league in the United States, featuring teams such as the Buffalo Bisons in early postwar competition.
E380179 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: National Basketball League 1946–47 season | Statement: [Buffalo Bisons, playedIn, National Basketball League 1946–47 season]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National Basketball League 1946–47 season
Context triple: [Buffalo Bisons, playedIn, National Basketball League 1946–47 season]
  • A. 1946–47 BAA season
    The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural professional basketball campaign of the league that would later become the National Basketball Association (NBA).
  • B. American Basketball League (1944–1947)
    The American Basketball League (1944–1947) was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that operated in the mid-1940s and featured several prominent early franchises.
  • C. 1947–48 BAA season
    The 1947–48 BAA season was the second season of the Basketball Association of America, a predecessor to the NBA, featuring teams such as the Providence Steamrollers competing for the league championship.
  • D. 1947 BAA Finals
    The 1947 BAA Finals was the inaugural championship series of the Basketball Association of America, later recognized as the first NBA Finals.
  • E. 1948–49 BAA season
    The 1948–49 BAA season was the final campaign of the Basketball Association of America before it merged with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association (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: National Basketball League 1946–47 season
Triple: [Buffalo Bisons, playedIn, National Basketball League 1946–47 season]
Generated description
The National Basketball League 1946–47 season was the inaugural campaign of the NBL as a professional basketball league in the United States, featuring teams such as the Buffalo Bisons in early postwar competition.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National Basketball League 1946–47 season
Target entity description: The National Basketball League 1946–47 season was the inaugural campaign of the NBL as a professional basketball league in the United States, featuring teams such as the Buffalo Bisons in early postwar competition.
  • A. 1946–47 BAA season
    The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural professional basketball campaign of the league that would later become the National Basketball Association (NBA).
  • B. American Basketball League (1944–1947)
    The American Basketball League (1944–1947) was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that operated in the mid-1940s and featured several prominent early franchises.
  • C. 1947–48 BAA season
    The 1947–48 BAA season was the second season of the Basketball Association of America, a predecessor to the NBA, featuring teams such as the Providence Steamrollers competing for the league championship.
  • D. 1947 BAA Finals
    The 1947 BAA Finals was the inaugural championship series of the Basketball Association of America, later recognized as the first NBA Finals.
  • E. 1948–49 BAA season
    The 1948–49 BAA season was the final campaign of the Basketball Association of America before it merged with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association (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_69ad85e285a081908f8cbfa9e2ed9b75 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc4c49b408190bc800bcf9745fe4f completed March 8, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4c3b86de88190bf4d39aae48ef930 completed March 14, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4c78bca688190bb06f64827285790 completed March 14, 2026, 2:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4c7f33dec8190b71ea08cb1d34c32 completed March 14, 2026, 2:29 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:26 p.m.