Triple

T4777676
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Briscoe E106090 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering
The Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering is a senior practice-oriented faculty position at Harvard University focused on applied environmental engineering and real-world water and environmental management challenges.
E469714 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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 Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering | Statement: [John Briscoe, positionHeld, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering
Context triple: [John Briscoe, positionHeld, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering]
  • A. Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    The Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is a prestigious endowed chair at Princeton University held by leading scholars in fluid mechanics and related fields.
  • B. Lois and Willard Mackey Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
    The Lois and Willard Mackey Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University is an endowed faculty chair held by fluid dynamics expert Andrea Prosperetti.
  • C. Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering
    The Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering is a prestigious endowed professorship recognizing exceptional scholarly contributions and leadership in the field of computational engineering.
  • D. James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry
    The James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry is a prestigious endowed professorship at Princeton University held by Nobel Prize–winning chemist David W. C. MacMillan.
  • E. Henry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor
    The Henry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor is a prestigious endowed professorship at the University of Chicago awarded to scholars of exceptional distinction in their fields.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering
Triple: [John Briscoe, positionHeld, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering]
Generated description
The Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering is a senior practice-oriented faculty position at Harvard University focused on applied environmental engineering and real-world water and environmental management challenges.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering
Target entity description: The Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering is a senior practice-oriented faculty position at Harvard University focused on applied environmental engineering and real-world water and environmental management challenges.
  • A. Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    The Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is a prestigious endowed chair at Princeton University held by leading scholars in fluid mechanics and related fields.
  • B. Lois and Willard Mackey Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
    The Lois and Willard Mackey Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University is an endowed faculty chair held by fluid dynamics expert Andrea Prosperetti.
  • C. Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering
    The Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering is a prestigious endowed professorship recognizing exceptional scholarly contributions and leadership in the field of computational engineering.
  • D. James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry
    The James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry is a prestigious endowed professorship at Princeton University held by Nobel Prize–winning chemist David W. C. MacMillan.
  • E. Henry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor
    The Henry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor is a prestigious endowed professorship at the University of Chicago awarded to scholars of exceptional distinction in their fields.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69bd43f3074c8190937e7b0a457fe9f1 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd65881e2c8190aa5b57759885b2bb completed March 20, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be43caec588190880c47f11d3f2daf completed March 21, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be44df4e808190bb65ea205446a98f completed March 21, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be45bc7b2c8190aa293d2c10077864 completed March 21, 2026, 7:16 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:21 p.m.