Triple
T21124744
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nicholas Boylston |
E520528
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWith |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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 Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory | Statement: [Nicholas Boylston, associatedWith, Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory Context triple: [Nicholas Boylston, associatedWith, Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory]
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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.
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B.
Sather Professorship of Public Address
The Sather Professorship of Public Address is a distinguished endowed chair at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on the study and teaching of rhetoric, public speaking, and persuasive communication.
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C.
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.
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D.
Sather Professorship of Classical Literature
The Sather Professorship of Classical Literature is a distinguished visiting lectureship at the University of California, Berkeley, awarded to leading scholars of ancient Greek and Roman culture and texts.
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E.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities
The Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities is a prestigious endowed chair at Harvard University reserved for distinguished scholars in the humanities.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69e0b50a623881909c0bbaf4f2c055e7 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e72237c1a4819090987c645114d452 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 7:07 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:56 p.m.