Triple

T13176765
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University E313117 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Sheldon Emery
Sheldon Emery was a benefactor whose name was given to a professorship in chemistry at Harvard University.
 E1027555 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: Sheldon Emery | Statement: [Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, namedAfter, Sheldon Emery]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sheldon Emery
Context triple: [Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, namedAfter, Sheldon Emery]
  • A. Sheldon Fox
    Sheldon Fox is an architect best known as one of the founding partners of the global architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF).
  • B. Sheldon Lane
    Sheldon Lane is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Lane.
  • C. Sheldon Peck
    Sheldon Peck was a 19th-century American folk artist and portrait painter known for his distinctive primitive style and abolitionist activities.
  • D. Sheldon Luce
    Sheldon Luce is a member of the Luce family, known primarily as the child of Elizabeth Root Luce.
  • E. Sheldon Roberts
    Sheldon Roberts was an American engineer and semiconductor pioneer best known as one of the "Traitorous Eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s modern electronics industry.
  • 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: Sheldon Emery
Triple: [Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, namedAfter, Sheldon Emery]
Generated description
Sheldon Emery was a benefactor whose name was given to a professorship in chemistry at Harvard University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sheldon Emery
Target entity description: Sheldon Emery was a benefactor whose name was given to a professorship in chemistry at Harvard University.
  • A. Sheldon Fox
    Sheldon Fox is an architect best known as one of the founding partners of the global architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF).
  • B. Sheldon Lane
    Sheldon Lane is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Lane.
  • C. Sheldon Peck
    Sheldon Peck was a 19th-century American folk artist and portrait painter known for his distinctive primitive style and abolitionist activities.
  • D. Sheldon Luce
    Sheldon Luce is a member of the Luce family, known primarily as the child of Elizabeth Root Luce.
  • E. Sheldon Roberts
    Sheldon Roberts was an American engineer and semiconductor pioneer best known as one of the "Traitorous Eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s modern electronics industry.
  • 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_69d806ac3ee081909b2fd27d060aa974 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98c322fdc8190b05f2287eba9dda6 completed April 10, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6f5ea93bc81908087326b3d043727 completed May 3, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6f9e78d488190a3b4f3c1050dc0a5 completed May 3, 2026, 7:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6faae6bb481909939881996d0f5f6 completed May 3, 2026, 7:35 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:14 p.m.