Triple

T14890087
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Isaac Bayley Balfour E359731 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford E1050803 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford | Statement: [Isaac Bayley Balfour, positionHeld, Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford
Context triple: [Isaac Bayley Balfour, positionHeld, Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford]
  • A. Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford chosen
    The Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford is a prestigious endowed chair in plant sciences, historically held by leading botanists and geneticists at the university.
  • B. Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford
    The Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford is a prestigious endowed chair in chemistry historically held by leading figures in the field.
  • C. Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge
    The Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge is a prestigious endowed chair in geology, historically held by leading figures in the development of geological science in Britain.
  • D. Regius Professorship of Botany (Cambridge)
    The Regius Professorship of Botany at the University of Cambridge is a prestigious royal-endowed chair in botanical science, held by leading scholars in plant biology.
  • E. Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Glasgow
    The Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Glasgow is a prestigious royal-appointed chair in the biological and earth sciences at the University of Glasgow.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d827980cbc8190a0c569ae3940a1d9 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded5f6cf5c8190b6b28f58fafe5d59 completed April 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe6b61407481908a618d14c56d2abf completed May 8, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:09 a.m.