Triple

T486270
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St. Louis Bombers E9884 entity
Predicate division P889 FINISHED
Object Western Division of NBA
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.
 E60573 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: Western Division of NBA | Statement: [St. Louis Bombers, division, Western Division of NBA]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Western Division of NBA
Context triple: [St. Louis Bombers, division, Western Division of NBA]
  • A. Central Division
    The Central Division is one of the regional groupings of teams within the Eastern Conference of major North American professional sports leagues, such as the NBA and NHL.
  • B. Central Division
    The Central Division is a group of teams in the National Hockey League’s Western Conference that includes the Chicago Blackhawks.
  • C. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two regional groupings of teams that compete in Major League Soccer in the United States and Canada.
  • D. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two primary conferences in the National Basketball Association, comprising teams from the western regions of North America that compete for a spot in the NBA Finals.
  • E. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two primary competitive groupings of teams in the National Hockey League, comprising franchises mainly based in the western regions of North America.
  • 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: Western Division of NBA
Triple: [St. Louis Bombers, division, Western Division of NBA]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Western Division of NBA
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. Central Division
    The Central Division is one of the regional groupings of teams within the Eastern Conference of major North American professional sports leagues, such as the NBA and NHL.
  • B. Central Division
    The Central Division is a group of teams in the National Hockey League’s Western Conference that includes the Chicago Blackhawks.
  • C. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two regional groupings of teams that compete in Major League Soccer in the United States and Canada.
  • D. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two primary conferences in the National Basketball Association, comprising teams from the western regions of North America that compete for a spot in the NBA Finals.
  • E. Western Conference
    The Western Conference is one of the two primary competitive groupings of teams in the National Hockey League, comprising franchises mainly based in the western regions of North America.
  • 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_69a2e802e2908190ab17c9479e0b6412 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f0bc6f548190b13dee42cb100423 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4712156a88190b18c971309477da7 completed March 1, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4728388a481909a05835623ab81af completed March 1, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4729edbb88190a4c509a964888203 completed March 1, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.