Triple

T5797309
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons E128537 entity
Predicate sponsoredBy P67 FINISHED
Object Zollner Corporation
Zollner Corporation was an American manufacturing company best known for its role in sponsoring and owning the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons basketball team before their move to the NBA.
E548987 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: Zollner Corporation | Statement: [Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, sponsoredBy, Zollner Corporation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zollner Corporation
Context triple: [Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, sponsoredBy, Zollner Corporation]
  • A. Castellini Company
    Castellini Company is a long-established, family-owned produce distribution and logistics firm in the United States, known for supplying fresh fruits and vegetables to retailers, foodservice operators, and other customers.
  • B. Trizec Corporation
    Trizec Corporation was a major North American real estate investment and development company that became one of the continent’s largest owners and managers of commercial office properties.
  • C. Wirtz Corporation
    Wirtz Corporation is a Chicago-based, family-owned holding company with major interests in sports, liquor distribution, and real estate, best known for controlling the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.
  • D. Pewterschmidt Industries
    Pewterschmidt Industries is the wealthy, family-owned business empire controlled by Carter Pewterschmidt in the animated series "Family Guy."
  • E. Hahn Company
    Hahn Company was a real estate development firm that became part of the lineage leading to the major North American property company TrizecHahn.
  • 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: Zollner Corporation
Triple: [Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, sponsoredBy, Zollner Corporation]
Generated description
Zollner Corporation was an American manufacturing company best known for its role in sponsoring and owning the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons basketball team before their move to the NBA.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zollner Corporation
Target entity description: Zollner Corporation was an American manufacturing company best known for its role in sponsoring and owning the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons basketball team before their move to the NBA.
  • A. Castellini Company
    Castellini Company is a long-established, family-owned produce distribution and logistics firm in the United States, known for supplying fresh fruits and vegetables to retailers, foodservice operators, and other customers.
  • B. Trizec Corporation
    Trizec Corporation was a major North American real estate investment and development company that became one of the continent’s largest owners and managers of commercial office properties.
  • C. Wirtz Corporation
    Wirtz Corporation is a Chicago-based, family-owned holding company with major interests in sports, liquor distribution, and real estate, best known for controlling the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.
  • D. Pewterschmidt Industries
    Pewterschmidt Industries is the wealthy, family-owned business empire controlled by Carter Pewterschmidt in the animated series "Family Guy."
  • E. Hahn Company
    Hahn Company was a real estate development firm that became part of the lineage leading to the major North American property company TrizecHahn.
  • 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_69c00845ca68819081a2ce3ecca577f7 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02a945fe0819095e62d480c84a2b5 completed March 22, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c098302d4c81908b56747d304b3e6a completed March 23, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c098d889e08190adbd12504a7f3fa1 completed March 23, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c09990da18819099fdc8f25f2ddef2 completed March 23, 2026, 1:38 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:51 p.m.