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]
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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.
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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."
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C.
Raymond Priestley
Raymond Priestley was a British geologist and Antarctic explorer who later became a prominent academic and university administrator.
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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.
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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.