Triple

T21954898
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Drake Bulldogs men's basketball E542160 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Willie McCarter
Willie McCarter was a standout guard for Drake University's men's basketball team in the late 1960s who helped lead the Bulldogs to national prominence, including a Final Four appearance.
 E1510917 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: Willie McCarter | Statement: [Drake Bulldogs men's basketball, notablePlayer, Willie McCarter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Willie McCarter
Context triple: [Drake Bulldogs men's basketball, notablePlayer, Willie McCarter]
  • A. Willie Jones
    Willie Jones was an influential North Carolina planter and politician of the late 18th century, known for his leadership in state politics and his strong Anti-Federalist stance during the debates over the U.S. Constitution.
  • B. Willie Jones
    Willie Jones is a former professional baseball player best known as a standout third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies' famed "Whiz Kids" team of 1950.
  • C. Willie Jones
    Willie Jones is the eccentric, wisecracking father character portrayed by John Witherspoon in the "Friday" film series.
  • D. Willie Jones
    Willie Jones is an American country singer known for blending traditional country with R&B and hip-hop influences.
  • E. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • 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: Willie McCarter
Triple: [Drake Bulldogs men's basketball, notablePlayer, Willie McCarter]
Generated description
Willie McCarter was a standout guard for Drake University's men's basketball team in the late 1960s who helped lead the Bulldogs to national prominence, including a Final Four appearance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Willie McCarter
Target entity description: Willie McCarter was a standout guard for Drake University's men's basketball team in the late 1960s who helped lead the Bulldogs to national prominence, including a Final Four appearance.
  • A. Willie Jones
    Willie Jones was an influential North Carolina planter and politician of the late 18th century, known for his leadership in state politics and his strong Anti-Federalist stance during the debates over the U.S. Constitution.
  • B. Willie Jones
    Willie Jones is a former professional baseball player best known as a standout third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies' famed "Whiz Kids" team of 1950.
  • C. Willie Jones
    Willie Jones is the eccentric, wisecracking father character portrayed by John Witherspoon in the "Friday" film series.
  • D. Willie Jones
    Willie Jones is an American country singer known for blending traditional country with R&B and hip-hop influences.
  • E. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • 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_69e0c47ef0e48190a50e1bcc43f4b3fd completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1243f46dc819097e4a1849af7fba4 completed April 28, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a670672b481908b92e15245212e64 completed May 18, 2026, 1:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a67c29848819080860f13b4c9697b completed May 18, 2026, 1:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a686a0f208190977890119ffcff79 completed May 18, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:59 p.m.