Triple

T4845255
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1975 ABA Championship E108272 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object 1976 ABA Championship
The 1976 ABA Championship was the final playoff series of the American Basketball Association, determining the league’s last champion before its merger with the NBA.
 E475919 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: 1976 ABA Championship | Statement: [1975 ABA Championship, followedBy, 1976 ABA Championship]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 1976 ABA Championship
Context triple: [1975 ABA Championship, followedBy, 1976 ABA Championship]
  • A. 1975 ABA Championship
    The 1975 ABA Championship was the American Basketball Association title series in which the Kentucky Colonels captured their only league championship.
  • B. 1969 ABA Championship
    The 1969 ABA Championship was the American Basketball Association's title series in which the Oakland Oaks captured their first and only league championship.
  • C. 1968 ABA Playoffs
    The 1968 ABA Playoffs were the inaugural postseason tournament of the American Basketball Association, featuring its top teams competing for the league’s first championship.
  • D. 1973 ABA Playoffs
    The 1973 ABA Playoffs were the postseason tournament of the American Basketball Association that determined the league champion for the 1972–73 season.
  • E. 1967–68 ABA season
    The 1967–68 ABA season was the inaugural campaign of the American Basketball Association, marking the league’s first year of competition and the debut of its original franchises.
  • 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: 1976 ABA Championship
Triple: [1975 ABA Championship, followedBy, 1976 ABA Championship]
Generated description
The 1976 ABA Championship was the final playoff series of the American Basketball Association, determining the league’s last champion before its merger with the NBA.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 1976 ABA Championship
Target entity description: The 1976 ABA Championship was the final playoff series of the American Basketball Association, determining the league’s last champion before its merger with the NBA.
  • A. 1975 ABA Championship
    The 1975 ABA Championship was the American Basketball Association title series in which the Kentucky Colonels captured their only league championship.
  • B. 1969 ABA Championship
    The 1969 ABA Championship was the American Basketball Association's title series in which the Oakland Oaks captured their first and only league championship.
  • C. 1968 ABA Playoffs
    The 1968 ABA Playoffs were the inaugural postseason tournament of the American Basketball Association, featuring its top teams competing for the league’s first championship.
  • D. 1973 ABA Playoffs
    The 1973 ABA Playoffs were the postseason tournament of the American Basketball Association that determined the league champion for the 1972–73 season.
  • E. 1967–68 ABA season
    The 1967–68 ABA season was the inaugural campaign of the American Basketball Association, marking the league’s first year of competition and the debut of its original franchises.
  • 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_69bd4409b264819085ab855f3eb5381a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d020e5c8190aa9ceb4258e713c3 completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be67d70dd0819094b6b2906a9d03b5 completed March 21, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be6846dfdc8190b45afc3fe92724fc completed March 21, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be68c77c088190a57376c608abe4c0 completed March 21, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.