Triple

T19186475
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering E469714 entity
Predicate namedFor P63 FINISHED
Object Gordon McKay NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Gordon McKay | Statement: [Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, namedFor, Gordon McKay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gordon McKay
Context triple: [Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, namedFor, Gordon McKay]
  • A. Walter Francis Brown
    Walter Francis Brown was an American illustrator and artist best known for his work on 19th-century books and periodicals, including providing illustrations for Mark Twain’s travel writings.
  • B. Norman Z. McLeod
    Norman Z. McLeod was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including films with the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields.
  • C. C. R. MacNamara
    C. R. MacNamara is the fast-talking, ambitious Coca-Cola executive stationed in West Berlin who serves as the central comic figure in Billy Wilder’s Cold War satire "One, Two, Three."
  • D. Albert R. Meyer
    Albert R. Meyer is an American computer scientist and professor at MIT known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and the foundations of computation.
  • E. Harvey Seeley Mudd
    Harvey Seeley Mudd was an American mining engineer, industrialist, and philanthropist whose support for science and engineering education led to several academic buildings and institutions bearing his name.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gordon McKay
Target entity description: Gordon McKay was a 19th-century American industrialist and inventor whose substantial bequest to Harvard University helped endow several engineering professorships and advance engineering education.
  • A. Walter Francis Brown
    Walter Francis Brown was an American illustrator and artist best known for his work on 19th-century books and periodicals, including providing illustrations for Mark Twain’s travel writings.
  • B. Norman Z. McLeod
    Norman Z. McLeod was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including films with the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields.
  • C. C. R. MacNamara
    C. R. MacNamara is the fast-talking, ambitious Coca-Cola executive stationed in West Berlin who serves as the central comic figure in Billy Wilder’s Cold War satire "One, Two, Three."
  • D. Albert R. Meyer
    Albert R. Meyer is an American computer scientist and professor at MIT known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and the foundations of computation.
  • E. Harvey Seeley Mudd
    Harvey Seeley Mudd was an American mining engineer, industrialist, and philanthropist whose support for science and engineering education led to several academic buildings and institutions bearing his name.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d8dd0ad9088190a173b32657ae2e7a completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5f620f1f08190a0daaf0d1483d724 completed April 20, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:07 p.m.