Triple

T21124773
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Lyman Kittredge E520529 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University
The Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the English department historically associated with leading scholars of Shakespeare and medieval and Renaissance literature.
E1468218 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: Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University | Statement: [George Lyman Kittredge, positionHeld, Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University
Context triple: [George Lyman Kittredge, positionHeld, Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University]
  • A. Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
    The Merton Professor of English Language and Literature is a prestigious endowed chair at the University of Oxford specializing in the study and teaching of English language and literary scholarship.
  • B. Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard University
    The Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the university’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, historically associated with leading scholars such as poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
  • C. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University
    The Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the English department historically held by distinguished scholars and writers in the fields of rhetoric, oratory, and literature.
  • D. Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University
    The Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University is a prestigious endowed chair awarded to a leading scholar in the humanities at Yale.
  • E. Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University
    The Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University is a faculty role held by acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri, known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning fiction exploring themes of identity, migration, and the Indian diaspora.
  • 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: Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University
Triple: [George Lyman Kittredge, positionHeld, Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University]
Generated description
The Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the English department historically associated with leading scholars of Shakespeare and medieval and Renaissance literature.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University
Target entity description: The Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the English department historically associated with leading scholars of Shakespeare and medieval and Renaissance literature.
  • A. Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
    The Merton Professor of English Language and Literature is a prestigious endowed chair at the University of Oxford specializing in the study and teaching of English language and literary scholarship.
  • B. Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard University
    The Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the university’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, historically associated with leading scholars such as poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
  • C. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University
    The Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the English department historically held by distinguished scholars and writers in the fields of rhetoric, oratory, and literature.
  • D. Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University
    The Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University is a prestigious endowed chair awarded to a leading scholar in the humanities at Yale.
  • E. Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University
    The Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University is a faculty role held by acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri, known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning fiction exploring themes of identity, migration, and the Indian diaspora.
  • 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_69e0b50a623881909c0bbaf4f2c055e7 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e72237c1a4819090987c645114d452 completed April 21, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0965eb985081908e83e65d104e25ee completed May 17, 2026, 6:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0966f894d48190b6841c35a9aab417 completed May 17, 2026, 6:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a096adfd4248190a26c513278e7b334 completed May 17, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:56 p.m.