Triple

T5992832
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pittsburgh Ironmen E133392 entity
Predicate headCoach P256 FINISHED
Object Paul Birch
Paul Birch was an American professional basketball coach and former player best known for his role in the early years of the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the NBA.
E569744 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: Paul Birch | Statement: [Pittsburgh Ironmen, headCoach, Paul Birch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Birch
Context triple: [Pittsburgh Ironmen, headCoach, Paul Birch]
  • A. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • B. Alan McMichael
    Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
  • C. Patrick Hughes
    Patrick Hughes is an Australian film director best known for helming action movies such as *The Expendables 3* and *The Hitman's Bodyguard*.
  • D. Martin Boddey
    Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
  • E. Paul Milner
    Paul Milner is a fictional World War II-era police sergeant and close colleague of Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in the British television series "Foyle's War."
  • 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: Paul Birch
Triple: [Pittsburgh Ironmen, headCoach, Paul Birch]
Generated description
Paul Birch was an American professional basketball coach and former player best known for his role in the early years of the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the NBA.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Birch
Target entity description: Paul Birch was an American professional basketball coach and former player best known for his role in the early years of the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the NBA.
  • A. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • B. Alan McMichael
    Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
  • C. Patrick Hughes
    Patrick Hughes is an Australian film director best known for helming action movies such as *The Expendables 3* and *The Hitman's Bodyguard*.
  • D. Martin Boddey
    Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
  • E. Paul Milner
    Paul Milner is a fictional World War II-era police sergeant and close colleague of Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in the British television series "Foyle's War."
  • 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_69c00870ddbc81909880fa3864f4f38d completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c04e9189908190abc9c742b38dfabc completed March 22, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c1250912b48190a10dfdcc9b5a93e2 completed March 23, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c129f2d84481908808481ba48a5aed completed March 23, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c12a5235288190a8db827e1a610cd0 completed March 23, 2026, 11:56 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:05 p.m.