Triple

T454549
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tennessee Volunteers athletics program E7204 entity
Predicate mascot P52 FINISHED
Object Smokey
Smokey is the bluetick coonhound dog who serves as the live mascot for the University of Tennessee Volunteers athletic teams.
 E56993 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: Smokey | Statement: [Tennessee Volunteers athletics program, mascot, Smokey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Smokey
Context triple: [Tennessee Volunteers athletics program, mascot, Smokey]
  • A. Barkley
    Barkley is a surname most notably associated with Alben W. Barkley, the 35th vice president of the United States under President Harry S. Truman.
  • B. Willie
    Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
  • C. Blatch
    Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
  • D. Lick
    Lick is the nickname of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, a pioneering American computer scientist whose ideas helped lay the foundations for interactive computing and the internet.
  • E. Hoyte
    Hoyte is the first name of Hoyte van Hoytema, a renowned Dutch-Swedish cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk."
  • 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: Smokey
Triple: [Tennessee Volunteers athletics program, mascot, Smokey]
Generated description
Smokey is the bluetick coonhound dog who serves as the live mascot for the University of Tennessee Volunteers athletic teams.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Smokey
Target entity description: Smokey is the bluetick coonhound dog who serves as the live mascot for the University of Tennessee Volunteers athletic teams.
  • A. Barkley
    Barkley is a surname most notably associated with Alben W. Barkley, the 35th vice president of the United States under President Harry S. Truman.
  • B. Willie
    Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
  • C. Blatch
    Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
  • D. Lick
    Lick is the nickname of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, a pioneering American computer scientist whose ideas helped lay the foundations for interactive computing and the internet.
  • E. Hoyte
    Hoyte is the first name of Hoyte van Hoytema, a renowned Dutch-Swedish cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk."
  • 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_69a2e7e5c5bc8190a1dc8178218fba40 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ef87cc7c8190a0fec933457821e2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a44cbdb58481908416ae6b4773e1a7 completed March 1, 2026, 2:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a44d3af80081908fe11a4f873ee7a9 completed March 1, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a44da8ae788190b8e1694f534043d4 completed March 1, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.