Triple

T21260634
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Geoffrey Hill E523987 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Boston University — 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 Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Boston University | Statement: [Geoffrey Hill, positionHeld, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Boston University]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Boston University
Context triple: [Geoffrey Hill, positionHeld, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Boston 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. Gurney Professor of English Literature at Harvard University
    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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. University Professor at Boston University
    University Professor at Boston University is a prestigious senior academic title awarded to distinguished scholars at Boston University in recognition of exceptional achievement and impact in their fields.
  • E. Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University
    The Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed faculty chair in the natural sciences held by leading scholars such as computer scientist and AI researcher Barbara Grosz.
  • 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_69e0b5156d7881909bd4f83676590715 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e735e6a0448190ad412a8fcbbd8ff0 completed April 21, 2026, 8:31 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 3:59 p.m.