Triple

T5439832
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University E122102 entity
Predicate hasNotableHolder P1918 FINISHED
Object Walter Jackson Bate
Walter Jackson Bate was an influential American literary critic and biographer, best known for his acclaimed studies of Samuel Johnson and John Keats.
E520530 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: Walter Jackson Bate | Statement: [Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, hasNotableHolder, Walter Jackson Bate]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Jackson Bate
Context triple: [Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, hasNotableHolder, Walter Jackson Bate]
  • A. R. Rhees
    R. Rhees was a British philosopher best known for his close association with Ludwig Wittgenstein and his role in editing and preserving Wittgenstein’s writings.
  • B. Albert Fennell
    Albert Fennell was a British film and television producer best known for his work on genre films and series such as the cult horror movie "The Legend of Hell House" and the spy show "The Avengers."
  • C. Raymond Priestley
    Raymond Priestley was a British geologist and Antarctic explorer who later became a prominent academic and university administrator.
  • D. Hugh Kenner
    Hugh Kenner was a prominent 20th-century Canadian literary critic and scholar best known for his influential studies of modernist writers such as Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett.
  • E. W. D. Snodgrass
    W. D. Snodgrass was an American poet whose intensely personal, emotionally candid verse helped define and popularize the confessional poetry movement in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Walter Jackson Bate
Triple: [Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, hasNotableHolder, Walter Jackson Bate]
Generated description
Walter Jackson Bate was an influential American literary critic and biographer, best known for his acclaimed studies of Samuel Johnson and John Keats.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Jackson Bate
Target entity description: Walter Jackson Bate was an influential American literary critic and biographer, best known for his acclaimed studies of Samuel Johnson and John Keats.
  • A. R. Rhees
    R. Rhees was a British philosopher best known for his close association with Ludwig Wittgenstein and his role in editing and preserving Wittgenstein’s writings.
  • B. Albert Fennell
    Albert Fennell was a British film and television producer best known for his work on genre films and series such as the cult horror movie "The Legend of Hell House" and the spy show "The Avengers."
  • C. Raymond Priestley
    Raymond Priestley was a British geologist and Antarctic explorer who later became a prominent academic and university administrator.
  • D. Hugh Kenner
    Hugh Kenner was a prominent 20th-century Canadian literary critic and scholar best known for his influential studies of modernist writers such as Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett.
  • E. W. D. Snodgrass
    W. D. Snodgrass was an American poet whose intensely personal, emotionally candid verse helped define and popularize the confessional poetry movement in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69bd46400768819092925d461c0b8432 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd91bfdc5481908c0894efcd2bff8e completed March 20, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf412aa8bc81908d74589b2a38e5eb completed March 22, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf41dd96448190973b7241df5dbb24 completed March 22, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf42b97d40819087a98c1cc58bb964 completed March 22, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:07 p.m.