Triple

T601278
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MLS Cup E11498 entity
Predicate firstEdition P4629 FINISHED
Object 1996 MLS Cup
The 1996 MLS Cup was the inaugural championship match of Major League Soccer, contested between D.C. United and the LA Galaxy to determine the league’s first champion.
 E75351 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: 1996 MLS Cup | Statement: [MLS Cup, firstEdition, 1996 MLS Cup]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 1996 MLS Cup
Context triple: [MLS Cup, firstEdition, 1996 MLS Cup]
  • A. MLS Cup 1998
    MLS Cup 1998 was the third championship match of Major League Soccer, notable for the Chicago Fire winning the title in their inaugural season.
  • B. MLS Cup 2000
    MLS Cup 2000 was the fifth championship match of Major League Soccer, contested in October 2000 to determine the league’s season champion.
  • C. MLS Cup 2001
    MLS Cup 2001 was the Major League Soccer championship match for the 2001 season, determining the league’s title-winning team in the United States.
  • D. MLS Cup 2002
    MLS Cup 2002 was the Major League Soccer championship match for the 2002 season, contested between the Los Angeles Galaxy and the New England Revolution.
  • E. MLS Cup 2003
    MLS Cup 2003 was the eighth championship match of Major League Soccer, determining the league’s 2003 season champion.
  • 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: 1996 MLS Cup
Triple: [MLS Cup, firstEdition, 1996 MLS Cup]
Generated description
The 1996 MLS Cup was the inaugural championship match of Major League Soccer, contested between D.C. United and the LA Galaxy to determine the league’s first champion.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 1996 MLS Cup
Target entity description: The 1996 MLS Cup was the inaugural championship match of Major League Soccer, contested between D.C. United and the LA Galaxy to determine the league’s first champion.
  • A. MLS Cup 1998
    MLS Cup 1998 was the third championship match of Major League Soccer, notable for the Chicago Fire winning the title in their inaugural season.
  • B. MLS Cup 2000
    MLS Cup 2000 was the fifth championship match of Major League Soccer, contested in October 2000 to determine the league’s season champion.
  • C. MLS Cup 2001
    MLS Cup 2001 was the Major League Soccer championship match for the 2001 season, determining the league’s title-winning team in the United States.
  • D. MLS Cup 2002
    MLS Cup 2002 was the Major League Soccer championship match for the 2002 season, contested between the Los Angeles Galaxy and the New England Revolution.
  • E. MLS Cup 2003
    MLS Cup 2003 was the eighth championship match of Major League Soccer, determining the league’s 2003 season champion.
  • 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_69a4932779b881908688590d59c71900 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49d7a2180819086c7e9465a2d7432 completed March 1, 2026, 8:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a521704f3081909c1dbb3b030e79ec completed March 2, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a521e8eb7c819084a5485b4f71bb93 completed March 2, 2026, 5:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5226144f881908e0d1add6be6e156 completed March 2, 2026, 5:38 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.