Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James M. McPherson E120029 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History
The George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History is a distinguished endowed chair at Princeton University held by leading scholars of United States history.
E509617 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: George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History | Statement: [James M. McPherson, positionHeld, George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History
Context triple: [James M. McPherson, positionHeld, George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History]
  • A. Harrington Professor of History
    Harrington Professor of History is a distinguished endowed academic chair in the field of history, held by historian Alfred W. McCoy.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History
    The Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History is a distinguished endowed chair at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, held by historian Emma Georgina Rothschild.
  • D. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • E. Jeremy Iggers
    Jeremy Iggers is an American journalist and food critic known for his work at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and his influential writing on ethics in restaurant reviewing.
  • 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: George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History
Triple: [James M. McPherson, positionHeld, George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History]
Generated description
The George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History is a distinguished endowed chair at Princeton University held by leading scholars of United States history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History
Target entity description: The George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History is a distinguished endowed chair at Princeton University held by leading scholars of United States history.
  • A. Harrington Professor of History
    Harrington Professor of History is a distinguished endowed academic chair in the field of history, held by historian Alfred W. McCoy.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History
    The Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History is a distinguished endowed chair at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, held by historian Emma Georgina Rothschild.
  • D. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • E. Jeremy Iggers
    Jeremy Iggers is an American journalist and food critic known for his work at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and his influential writing on ethics in restaurant reviewing.
  • 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_69bd44704be88190acdb2ac481b0ff55 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd851b685c8190b7ed8c762a807395 completed March 20, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf10f3b9ac81909cd2ca2278b11d3e completed March 21, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf11635b9c819092130c46caea9306 completed March 21, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf11e982d08190bc74312bf6ee7127 completed March 21, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:53 p.m.