Triple

T18282769
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Bressoud E437902 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College
The DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College is a distinguished endowed chair in the college’s mathematics department, held by prominent mathematician and educator David Bressoud.
E1316095 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: DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College | Statement: [David Bressoud, positionHeld, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College
Context triple: [David Bressoud, positionHeld, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College]
  • A. Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University
    The Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University is a prestigious endowed chair in the university’s mathematics department, held by leading researchers such as Charles Fefferman.
  • B. George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
    The George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in Harvard's mathematics department, held by distinguished scholars such as number theorist Benedict Gross.
  • C. James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics
    The James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics is a distinguished endowed chair at Duke University reserved for leading scholars in the field of mathematics.
  • D. Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics
    The Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics is a distinguished endowed faculty chair in mathematics at the University of Virginia.
  • E. Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago
    The Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago is a prestigious endowed faculty chair awarded to an eminent mathematician recognized for outstanding research and service in the field.
  • 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: DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College
Triple: [David Bressoud, positionHeld, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College]
Generated description
The DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College is a distinguished endowed chair in the college’s mathematics department, held by prominent mathematician and educator David Bressoud.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College
Target entity description: The DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College is a distinguished endowed chair in the college’s mathematics department, held by prominent mathematician and educator David Bressoud.
  • A. Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University
    The Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University is a prestigious endowed chair in the university’s mathematics department, held by leading researchers such as Charles Fefferman.
  • B. George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
    The George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in Harvard's mathematics department, held by distinguished scholars such as number theorist Benedict Gross.
  • C. James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics
    The James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics is a distinguished endowed chair at Duke University reserved for leading scholars in the field of mathematics.
  • D. Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics
    The Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics is a distinguished endowed faculty chair in mathematics at the University of Virginia.
  • E. Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago
    The Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago is a prestigious endowed faculty chair awarded to an eminent mathematician recognized for outstanding research and service in the field.
  • 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_69d8b914530c8190b4474d862a2b2a1b completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e50057c5c881909fcda72f4a98c8c3 completed April 19, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03b4029cb88190963ae33570455c2d completed May 12, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03b501b630819094c77aebf62081a2 completed May 12, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03b5c09f4881909fb0ead5fc48895c completed May 12, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:35 a.m.