Triple

T16284530
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Francis James Child E395354 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University E122102 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: Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University | Statement: [Francis James Child, positionHeld, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University
Context triple: [Francis James Child, positionHeld, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University]
  • A. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University chosen
    The Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the English department historically held by distinguished scholars and writers in the fields of rhetoric, oratory, and literature.
  • B. Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University
    The Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University is the oldest endowed professorship in the United States, traditionally held by a leading scholar of theology or religious studies at Harvard.
  • C. University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University
    Joseph S. Nye Jr. is a prominent American political scientist and international relations scholar best known for developing the concept of "soft power" and his influential work on U.S. foreign policy.
  • D. Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard University
    The Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the university’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, historically associated with leading scholars such as poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
  • E. Harvard College Professorship
    The Harvard College Professorship is a prestigious title awarded to outstanding Harvard faculty members in recognition of exceptional teaching, mentoring, and contributions to undergraduate education.
  • 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_69d87f22c7248190a54c949738441e2e completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e24913a55081909a9a5a7a7f4806cc completed April 17, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0017c8f51c8190b73cdf2834eda57f completed May 10, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:05 a.m.