Triple

T5382622
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Beane E113124 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William Lamar Beane III
William Lamar Beane III is an American former professional baseball player and longtime Oakland Athletics executive best known for pioneering the data-driven "Moneyball" approach to team building.
E516451 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: William Lamar Beane III | Statement: [Billy Beane, fullName, William Lamar Beane III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lamar Beane III
Context triple: [Billy Beane, fullName, William Lamar Beane III]
  • A. Matthew Richardson
    Matthew Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer widely regarded as one of Richmond Football Club’s greatest forwards and a fan favourite in the AFL.
  • B. Richie Stotts
    Richie Stotts is an American guitarist best known as a founding member of the shock rock band Plasmatics.
  • C. Wayne Swinny
    Wayne Swinny was an American guitarist best known as a founding and longtime member of the hard rock band Saliva.
  • D. Brandon T. Jackson
    Brandon T. Jackson is an American actor and comedian best known for his breakout role in the satirical action-comedy film "Tropic Thunder."
  • E. John Mackey
    John Mackey is an American businessman and co-founder who served as the longtime CEO of the natural and organic grocery chain Whole Foods Market.
  • 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: William Lamar Beane III
Triple: [Billy Beane, fullName, William Lamar Beane III]
Generated description
William Lamar Beane III is an American former professional baseball player and longtime Oakland Athletics executive best known for pioneering the data-driven "Moneyball" approach to team building.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lamar Beane III
Target entity description: William Lamar Beane III is an American former professional baseball player and longtime Oakland Athletics executive best known for pioneering the data-driven "Moneyball" approach to team building.
  • A. Matthew Richardson
    Matthew Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer widely regarded as one of Richmond Football Club’s greatest forwards and a fan favourite in the AFL.
  • B. Richie Stotts
    Richie Stotts is an American guitarist best known as a founding member of the shock rock band Plasmatics.
  • C. Wayne Swinny
    Wayne Swinny was an American guitarist best known as a founding and longtime member of the hard rock band Saliva.
  • D. Brandon T. Jackson
    Brandon T. Jackson is an American actor and comedian best known for his breakout role in the satirical action-comedy film "Tropic Thunder."
  • E. John Mackey
    John Mackey is an American businessman and co-founder who served as the longtime CEO of the natural and organic grocery chain Whole Foods Market.
  • 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_69bd4436a1988190af18dcff7fd306b4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd86d163f88190939638d44fcb24a7 completed March 20, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf294cb9288190ab1400dae18332de completed March 21, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf2a23ba1881909ddc549728bbc2d3 completed March 21, 2026, 11:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf2e6d5f9081908327dff0058241f0 completed March 21, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:03 p.m.