Triple

T6273922
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball E140607 entity
Predicate formerConference P3610 FINISHED
Object Mountain States Conference
The Mountain States Conference was a mid-20th-century American collegiate athletic conference that organized competition among universities in the Rocky Mountain region.
 E611273 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: Mountain States Conference | Statement: [Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball, formerConference, Mountain States Conference]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mountain States Conference
Context triple: [Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball, formerConference, Mountain States Conference]
  • A. Mountain West Conference
    The Mountain West Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA's Division I, known for sponsoring a range of sports among universities primarily located in the western United States.
  • B. Western State Conference
    The Western State Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in California that organizes and governs intercollegiate sports competition among its member community colleges.
  • C. Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
    The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that primarily competes at the NCAA Division II level, featuring member schools largely located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States.
  • D. Western Athletic Conference
    The Western Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically sponsored competition in multiple NCAA sports across institutions primarily in the western region.
  • E. Big Sky Conference
    The Big Sky Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference best known for sponsoring Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs across universities primarily in the western United States.
  • 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: Mountain States Conference
Triple: [Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball, formerConference, Mountain States Conference]
Generated description
The Mountain States Conference was a mid-20th-century American collegiate athletic conference that organized competition among universities in the Rocky Mountain region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mountain States Conference
Target entity description: The Mountain States Conference was a mid-20th-century American collegiate athletic conference that organized competition among universities in the Rocky Mountain region.
  • A. Mountain West Conference
    The Mountain West Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the NCAA's Division I, known for sponsoring a range of sports among universities primarily located in the western United States.
  • B. Western State Conference
    The Western State Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in California that organizes and governs intercollegiate sports competition among its member community colleges.
  • C. Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
    The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that primarily competes at the NCAA Division II level, featuring member schools largely located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States.
  • D. Western Athletic Conference
    The Western Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that has historically sponsored competition in multiple NCAA sports across institutions primarily in the western region.
  • E. Big Sky Conference
    The Big Sky Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference best known for sponsoring Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs across universities primarily in the western United States.
  • 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_69c008cc158881908df6ec94a911c736 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c063c0629c8190805ddf1a604e9ca4 completed March 22, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6f77b22f08190b756a7cd8159b961 completed March 27, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6f8453af88190b237c249bfbb4f8c completed March 27, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6f8d5630c8190913e8572a70b82c1 completed March 27, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.