Triple
T21124773
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | George Lyman Kittredge |
E520529
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeld |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University |
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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: Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University | Statement: [George Lyman Kittredge, positionHeld, Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University Context triple: [George Lyman Kittredge, positionHeld, Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University]
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A.
Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
The Merton Professor of English Language and Literature is a prestigious endowed chair at the University of Oxford specializing in the study and teaching of English language and literary scholarship.
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B.
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.
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C.
Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University
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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D.
Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University
The Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University is a prestigious endowed chair awarded to a leading scholar in the humanities at Yale.
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E.
Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University
The Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University is a faculty role held by acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri, known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning fiction exploring themes of identity, migration, and the Indian diaspora.
- 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: Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University Target entity description: The Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the English department historically associated with leading scholars of Shakespeare and medieval and Renaissance literature.
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A.
Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
The Merton Professor of English Language and Literature is a prestigious endowed chair at the University of Oxford specializing in the study and teaching of English language and literary scholarship.
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B.
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.
-
C.
Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University
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.
-
D.
Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University
The Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University is a prestigious endowed chair awarded to a leading scholar in the humanities at Yale.
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E.
Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University
The Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University is a faculty role held by acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri, known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning fiction exploring themes of identity, migration, and the Indian diaspora.
- 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_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.