Triple

T5465854
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bill Sharman E122707 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William Walton Sharman
William Walton Sharman was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, best known for his sharpshooting with the Boston Celtics and later coaching the Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA championship.
 E524535 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 Walton Sharman | Statement: [Bill Sharman, fullName, William Walton Sharman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Walton Sharman
Context triple: [Bill Sharman, fullName, William Walton Sharman]
  • A. Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus F. Hawkins was a pioneering African American U.S. Congressman from California known for his leadership on civil rights, labor, and full-employment legislation.
  • B. Frederick Wilson
    Frederick Wilson is a film editor known for his work on the movie "On the Beat."
  • C. J. Franklin Fort
    J. Franklin Fort was an American Republican politician and former Governor of New Jersey who later served in national advisory roles during the World War I era.
  • D. William Lanier
    William Lanier is a Pro Football Hall of Fame middle linebacker best known for starring with the Kansas City Chiefs in the American Football League and NFL during the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Douglass Montgomery
    Douglass Montgomery was an American film and stage actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his romantic and dramatic leading roles in Hollywood productions.
  • 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 Walton Sharman
Triple: [Bill Sharman, fullName, William Walton Sharman]
Generated description
William Walton Sharman was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, best known for his sharpshooting with the Boston Celtics and later coaching the Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA championship.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Walton Sharman
Target entity description: William Walton Sharman was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, best known for his sharpshooting with the Boston Celtics and later coaching the Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA championship.
  • A. Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus F. Hawkins was a pioneering African American U.S. Congressman from California known for his leadership on civil rights, labor, and full-employment legislation.
  • B. Frederick Wilson
    Frederick Wilson is a film editor known for his work on the movie "On the Beat."
  • C. J. Franklin Fort
    J. Franklin Fort was an American Republican politician and former Governor of New Jersey who later served in national advisory roles during the World War I era.
  • D. William Lanier
    William Lanier is a Pro Football Hall of Fame middle linebacker best known for starring with the Kansas City Chiefs in the American Football League and NFL during the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Douglass Montgomery
    Douglass Montgomery was an American film and stage actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his romantic and dramatic leading roles in Hollywood productions.
  • 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_69bd4643f16081908d7f29e08096115a completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd920590b481909b92091678ff1414 completed March 20, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf70d5dba4819086585fba83134f2b completed March 22, 2026, 4:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf73d994b08190866aae79c93d9393 completed March 22, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf743f2f348190aa6b44670166488a completed March 22, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:08 p.m.