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 |
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|
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]
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.