Triple

T21265997
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cornelius Lance Hawkins E524127 entity
Predicate playedInLeague P2209 FINISHED
Object American Basketball League
The American Basketball League was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that served as an alternative to the NBA during the early 1960s.
E255272 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: American Basketball League | Statement: [Cornelius Lance Hawkins, playedInLeague, American Basketball League]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Basketball League
Context triple: [Cornelius Lance Hawkins, playedInLeague, American Basketball League]
  • A. American Basketball League
    The American Basketball League was a short-lived professional women's basketball league in the United States that operated in the mid-1990s as an early competitor to the WNBA.
  • B. American Basketball League
    The American Basketball League was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that operated in the early 1960s as an alternative to the NBA.
  • C. National Industrial Basketball League
    The National Industrial Basketball League was a mid-20th-century American semi-professional basketball league composed largely of company-sponsored teams and known for featuring many players with NBA-level talent.
  • D. World Basketball League
    The World Basketball League was a professional basketball league that operated in North America from the late 1980s to early 1990s, featuring teams from smaller markets and emphasizing a fast-paced style of play.
  • E. National Basketball League
    The National Basketball League is Lithuania's second-tier professional basketball competition, serving as the primary league below the top-division Lithuanian Basketball League.
  • 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: American Basketball League
Triple: [Cornelius Lance Hawkins, playedInLeague, American Basketball League]
Generated description
The American Basketball League was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that served as an alternative to the NBA during the early 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Basketball League
Target entity description: The American Basketball League was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that served as an alternative to the NBA during the early 1960s.
  • A. American Basketball League
    The American Basketball League was a short-lived professional women's basketball league in the United States that operated in the mid-1990s as an early competitor to the WNBA.
  • B. American Basketball League chosen
    The American Basketball League was a short-lived professional basketball league in the United States that operated in the early 1960s as an alternative to the NBA.
  • C. National Industrial Basketball League
    The National Industrial Basketball League was a mid-20th-century American semi-professional basketball league composed largely of company-sponsored teams and known for featuring many players with NBA-level talent.
  • D. World Basketball League
    The World Basketball League was a professional basketball league that operated in North America from the late 1980s to early 1990s, featuring teams from smaller markets and emphasizing a fast-paced style of play.
  • E. National Basketball League
    The National Basketball League is Lithuania's second-tier professional basketball competition, serving as the primary league below the top-division Lithuanian Basketball League.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e0b5156d7881909bd4f83676590715 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e735ebe09081909f74301e91b4d3d7 completed April 21, 2026, 8:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0997f9ae4c81909793e59d89082abb completed May 17, 2026, 10:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0998d6b37881908a1b09afc1f67746 completed May 17, 2026, 10:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0999884e0481909b7ea54cd7ef87b5 completed May 17, 2026, 10:33 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 4 p.m.