Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Steiner E534648 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature
The Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature is a prestigious academic chair at the University of Oxford dedicated to the study and teaching of literature across languages and cultures.
E1495724 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: Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature | Statement: [George Steiner, positionHeld, Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature
Context triple: [George Steiner, positionHeld, Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative 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. Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature
    The Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature is a prestigious endowed chair at the University of Oxford dedicated to the study and teaching of English literature.
  • C. Sather Professorship of Classical Literature
    The Sather Professorship of Classical Literature is a distinguished visiting lectureship at the University of California, Berkeley, awarded to leading scholars of ancient Greek and Roman culture and texts.
  • D. William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University
    The William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University is an endowed academic chair in Duke’s Comparative Literature program, notably held by influential literary and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson.
  • E. Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge
    The Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge is a prestigious professorship at the University of Cambridge dedicated to the advanced study and teaching of European literature from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance.
  • 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: Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature
Triple: [George Steiner, positionHeld, Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature]
Generated description
The Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature is a prestigious academic chair at the University of Oxford dedicated to the study and teaching of literature across languages and cultures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature
Target entity description: The Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature is a prestigious academic chair at the University of Oxford dedicated to the study and teaching of literature across languages and cultures.
  • 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. Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature
    The Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature is a prestigious endowed chair at the University of Oxford dedicated to the study and teaching of English literature.
  • C. Sather Professorship of Classical Literature
    The Sather Professorship of Classical Literature is a distinguished visiting lectureship at the University of California, Berkeley, awarded to leading scholars of ancient Greek and Roman culture and texts.
  • D. William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University
    The William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University is an endowed academic chair in Duke’s Comparative Literature program, notably held by influential literary and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson.
  • E. Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge
    The Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge is a prestigious professorship at the University of Cambridge dedicated to the advanced study and teaching of European literature from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance.
  • 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_69e0c467e1f48190af2650b19175abc4 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef6c0956e0819093b4794418efe052 completed April 27, 2026, 2 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a159e783081908b025a92bfa658c9 completed May 17, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a16c278188190855335930666cede completed May 17, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a17a2c81481908e229ea58e61843e completed May 17, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:36 p.m.