Triple

T5392931
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University E120377 entity
Predicate namedFor P63 FINISHED
Object Higgins
Higgins is the namesake of the Higgins Professorship of Physics at Harvard University, an endowed academic chair in the university’s physics department.
E517271 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: Higgins | Statement: [Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University, namedFor, Higgins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Higgins
Context triple: [Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University, namedFor, Higgins]
  • A. Butler
    Butler is the party that served as the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Butler, which addressed the constitutionality of certain New Deal agricultural policies.
  • B. Butler
    Butler is a common English and Irish surname historically associated with nobility and service roles, borne by numerous notable figures in politics, law, and the arts.
  • C. Butler
    Butler is a city in Pennsylvania that serves as the administrative and economic center of Butler County.
  • D. Pygmalion
    Pygmalion is a celebrated stage play by George Bernard Shaw that satirizes class distinctions through the transformation of a Cockney flower girl into a refined lady under the tutelage of a phonetics professor.
  • E. Hytner
    Hytner is the surname of Nicholas Hytner, a prominent British theatre and film director and former artistic director of the National Theatre in London.
  • 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: Higgins
Triple: [Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University, namedFor, Higgins]
Generated description
Higgins is the namesake of the Higgins Professorship of Physics at Harvard University, an endowed academic chair in the university’s physics department.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Higgins
Target entity description: Higgins is the namesake of the Higgins Professorship of Physics at Harvard University, an endowed academic chair in the university’s physics department.
  • A. Butler
    Butler is the party that served as the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Butler, which addressed the constitutionality of certain New Deal agricultural policies.
  • B. Butler
    Butler is a common English and Irish surname historically associated with nobility and service roles, borne by numerous notable figures in politics, law, and the arts.
  • C. Butler
    Butler is a city in Pennsylvania that serves as the administrative and economic center of Butler County.
  • D. Pygmalion
    Pygmalion is a celebrated stage play by George Bernard Shaw that satirizes class distinctions through the transformation of a Cockney flower girl into a refined lady under the tutelage of a phonetics professor.
  • E. Hytner
    Hytner is the surname of Nicholas Hytner, a prominent British theatre and film director and former artistic director of the National Theatre in London.
  • 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_69bd46354c648190a38b26f107010a96 completed March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd871b81d08190993928e2c6251226 completed March 20, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf336d43a081909ab05d237c297c7b completed March 22, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf33e3b9ac819091cb000a98a505cd completed March 22, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf349a746481909a8ba2a854e29449 completed March 22, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:04 p.m.