Triple

T21577699
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject San Antonio, Texas, United States E532441 entity
Predicate sportsLeague P888 FINISHED
Object NBA (via San Antonio Spurs)
The NBA (National Basketball Association) is the premier professional men's basketball league in North America, featuring 30 teams including the San Antonio Spurs.
E1491707 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: NBA (via San Antonio Spurs) | Statement: [San Antonio, Texas, United States, sportsLeague, NBA (via San Antonio Spurs)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: NBA (via San Antonio Spurs)
Context triple: [San Antonio, Texas, United States, sportsLeague, NBA (via San Antonio Spurs)]
  • A. Sky Sport NBA
    Sky Sport NBA is a dedicated television channel that broadcasts National Basketball Association games and related basketball programming as part of the Sky Sport network.
  • B. NBA on ESPN family of broadcasts
    The NBA on ESPN family of broadcasts is ESPN’s comprehensive package of National Basketball Association coverage, encompassing live games, studio shows, and related programming across its television and digital platforms.
  • C. NBA logo
    The NBA logo is the iconic silhouette of a basketball player dribbling, widely recognized as the primary visual symbol of the National Basketball Association.
  • D. NBA.com
    NBA.com is the official website of the National Basketball Association, providing news, scores, statistics, video highlights, and other league-related content.
  • E. San Antonio Spurs–Dallas Mavericks rivalry
    The San Antonio Spurs–Dallas Mavericks rivalry is a long-standing NBA competition between the two Texas-based franchises, marked by intense regular-season battles and high-stakes playoff series that have shaped Western Conference history.
  • 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: NBA (via San Antonio Spurs)
Triple: [San Antonio, Texas, United States, sportsLeague, NBA (via San Antonio Spurs)]
Generated description
The NBA (National Basketball Association) is the premier professional men's basketball league in North America, featuring 30 teams including the San Antonio Spurs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: NBA (via San Antonio Spurs)
Target entity description: The NBA (National Basketball Association) is the premier professional men's basketball league in North America, featuring 30 teams including the San Antonio Spurs.
  • A. Sky Sport NBA
    Sky Sport NBA is a dedicated television channel that broadcasts National Basketball Association games and related basketball programming as part of the Sky Sport network.
  • B. NBA on ESPN family of broadcasts
    The NBA on ESPN family of broadcasts is ESPN’s comprehensive package of National Basketball Association coverage, encompassing live games, studio shows, and related programming across its television and digital platforms.
  • C. NBA logo
    The NBA logo is the iconic silhouette of a basketball player dribbling, widely recognized as the primary visual symbol of the National Basketball Association.
  • D. NBA.com
    NBA.com is the official website of the National Basketball Association, providing news, scores, statistics, video highlights, and other league-related content.
  • E. San Antonio Spurs–Dallas Mavericks rivalry
    The San Antonio Spurs–Dallas Mavericks rivalry is a long-standing NBA competition between the two Texas-based franchises, marked by intense regular-season battles and high-stakes playoff series that have shaped Western Conference history.
  • 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_69e0c4618bec8190bcb0feb74568cbb1 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69eeeb59cee08190aae55ad6e2a4e077 completed April 27, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09f67679c881908cabb5b7f3e8dcb7 completed May 17, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09f6e046e48190a65e3d164c14e4b3 completed May 17, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09f7e525a88190a37680187b5b0916 completed May 17, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:31 p.m.