Triple

T5809194
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New England Whalers E128823 entity
Predicate division P889 FINISHED
Object WHA Eastern Division
The WHA Eastern Division was a grouping of teams in the World Hockey Association, one of the league’s primary divisions during its early seasons in the 1970s.
 E547966 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: WHA Eastern Division | Statement: [New England Whalers, division, WHA Eastern Division]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: WHA Eastern Division
Context triple: [New England Whalers, division, WHA Eastern Division]
  • A. Western Division (WHA)
    Western Division (WHA) was one of the geographic groupings of teams in the World Hockey Association, featuring franchises such as the Houston Aeros during the league’s existence in the 1970s.
  • B. WHA
    WHA is the commonly used abbreviation for the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization.
  • C. WHA
    WHA is the commonly used abbreviation for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, which manages American diplomatic relations and policy in the Americas.
  • D. AHL Eastern Division
    The AHL Eastern Division was a former division of the American Hockey League that grouped together teams from the league’s eastern geographic region.
  • E. Eastern Conference (WHL)
    The Eastern Conference (WHL) is one of the two primary conferences of the Western Hockey League, grouping together teams from the league’s eastern regions for regular-season and playoff competition.
  • 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: WHA Eastern Division
Triple: [New England Whalers, division, WHA Eastern Division]
Generated description
The WHA Eastern Division was a grouping of teams in the World Hockey Association, one of the league’s primary divisions during its early seasons in the 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: WHA Eastern Division
Target entity description: The WHA Eastern Division was a grouping of teams in the World Hockey Association, one of the league’s primary divisions during its early seasons in the 1970s.
  • A. Western Division (WHA)
    Western Division (WHA) was one of the geographic groupings of teams in the World Hockey Association, featuring franchises such as the Houston Aeros during the league’s existence in the 1970s.
  • B. WHA
    WHA is the commonly used abbreviation for the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization.
  • C. WHA
    WHA is the commonly used abbreviation for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, which manages American diplomatic relations and policy in the Americas.
  • D. AHL Eastern Division
    The AHL Eastern Division was a former division of the American Hockey League that grouped together teams from the league’s eastern geographic region.
  • E. Eastern Conference (WHL)
    The Eastern Conference (WHL) is one of the two primary conferences of the Western Hockey League, grouping together teams from the league’s eastern regions for regular-season and playoff competition.
  • 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_69c0084788848190bcf71f6bc5d71597 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02b1867a481909a7ea3331dbb04ce completed March 22, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c098416504819089356b68fabdf737 completed March 23, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c098f465cc819088241200306bd273 completed March 23, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c099770ca88190a91815ec055f6df8 completed March 23, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:52 p.m.