Triple

T21916373
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Howard Taft E541191 entity
Predicate honor P11 FINISHED
Object Yale University’s Taft Professorship named in his honor
Yale University’s Taft Professorship named in his honor is an endowed academic chair at Yale University commemorating the legacy and contributions of William Howard Taft.
E1507724 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: Yale University’s Taft Professorship named in his honor | Statement: [William Howard Taft, honor, Yale University’s Taft Professorship named in his honor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yale University’s Taft Professorship named in his honor
Context triple: [William Howard Taft, honor, Yale University’s Taft Professorship named in his honor]
  • A. Sterling bequest to Yale University
    The Sterling bequest to Yale University was a major philanthropic gift from lawyer John W. Sterling that funded numerous buildings, endowments, and academic initiatives, significantly shaping Yale’s modern campus and resources.
  • B. Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
    The Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law is a prestigious endowed chair at Harvard Law School named after Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.
  • C. Yale University Provost
    The Yale University Provost is the institution’s chief academic and budget officer, overseeing academic policies, resource allocation, and strategic planning across the university.
  • D. Alva O. Way University Professor
    The Alva O. Way University Professor is a distinguished endowed professorship at Brown University held by eminent historian Gordon S. Wood.
  • E. Sather Professorship of History
    The Sather Professorship of History is a distinguished endowed chair at the University of California, Berkeley, awarded to eminent historians in recognition of their scholarly excellence.
  • 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: Yale University’s Taft Professorship named in his honor
Triple: [William Howard Taft, honor, Yale University’s Taft Professorship named in his honor]
Generated description
Yale University’s Taft Professorship named in his honor is an endowed academic chair at Yale University commemorating the legacy and contributions of William Howard Taft.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yale University’s Taft Professorship named in his honor
Target entity description: Yale University’s Taft Professorship named in his honor is an endowed academic chair at Yale University commemorating the legacy and contributions of William Howard Taft.
  • A. Sterling bequest to Yale University
    The Sterling bequest to Yale University was a major philanthropic gift from lawyer John W. Sterling that funded numerous buildings, endowments, and academic initiatives, significantly shaping Yale’s modern campus and resources.
  • B. Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
    The Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law is a prestigious endowed chair at Harvard Law School named after Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.
  • C. Yale University Provost
    The Yale University Provost is the institution’s chief academic and budget officer, overseeing academic policies, resource allocation, and strategic planning across the university.
  • D. Alva O. Way University Professor
    The Alva O. Way University Professor is a distinguished endowed professorship at Brown University held by eminent historian Gordon S. Wood.
  • E. Sather Professorship of History
    The Sather Professorship of History is a distinguished endowed chair at the University of California, Berkeley, awarded to eminent historians in recognition of their scholarly excellence.
  • 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_69e0c47c4b9c8190a5586a75f5f36453 completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f123378140819090a30453c1db7f38 completed April 28, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a5a1186fc819094873c6f5aa613c5 completed May 18, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a5ad393c88190b92efec68c0b9846 completed May 18, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a5b7724188190bcdf44436cd8da26 completed May 18, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:43 p.m.