Triple

T782655
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Detroit Tigers E16530 entity
Predicate formerOwner P347 FINISHED
Object Mike Ilitch
Mike Ilitch was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of Little Caesars Pizza and a longtime owner of Detroit’s major sports franchises.
E102441 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: Mike Ilitch | Statement: [Detroit Tigers, formerOwner, Mike Ilitch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mike Ilitch
Context triple: [Detroit Tigers, formerOwner, Mike Ilitch]
  • A. Christopher Ilitch
    Christopher Ilitch is an American businessman and sports executive who leads Ilitch Holdings and oversees the family’s Detroit-based sports and entertainment enterprises.
  • B. Dan Gilbert
    Dan Gilbert is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder of Quicken Loans (Rocket Mortgage) and a prominent owner in the NBA.
  • C. George McCaskey
    George McCaskey is an American sports executive and member of the Halas-McCaskey family who leads the NFL’s Chicago Bears franchise.
  • D. Jeff Vinik
    Jeff Vinik is an American investor and philanthropist best known for owning the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning and for his prominent role in major real estate and community development projects in Tampa, Florida.
  • E. Jerry Reinsdorf
    Jerry Reinsdorf is an American businessman and longtime sports team owner best known for his leadership of both the Chicago White Sox in Major League Baseball and the Chicago Bulls in the NBA.
  • 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: Mike Ilitch
Triple: [Detroit Tigers, formerOwner, Mike Ilitch]
Generated description
Mike Ilitch was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of Little Caesars Pizza and a longtime owner of Detroit’s major sports franchises.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mike Ilitch
Target entity description: Mike Ilitch was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of Little Caesars Pizza and a longtime owner of Detroit’s major sports franchises.
  • A. Christopher Ilitch
    Christopher Ilitch is an American businessman and sports executive who leads Ilitch Holdings and oversees the family’s Detroit-based sports and entertainment enterprises.
  • B. Dan Gilbert
    Dan Gilbert is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder of Quicken Loans (Rocket Mortgage) and a prominent owner in the NBA.
  • C. George McCaskey
    George McCaskey is an American sports executive and member of the Halas-McCaskey family who leads the NFL’s Chicago Bears franchise.
  • D. Jeff Vinik
    Jeff Vinik is an American investor and philanthropist best known for owning the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning and for his prominent role in major real estate and community development projects in Tampa, Florida.
  • E. Jerry Reinsdorf
    Jerry Reinsdorf is an American businessman and longtime sports team owner best known for his leadership of both the Chicago White Sox in Major League Baseball and the Chicago Bulls in the NBA.
  • 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_69a4936ad1fc81908f190208059ccf78 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a7686d0881908c2a4395059be02c completed March 1, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7a3afbb0c8190b4e7aa7824c8b787 completed March 4, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a6b6741081908d14a974a7f55fbc completed March 4, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a8ad0c2c8190921ace3db1cd2608 completed March 4, 2026, 3:36 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.