Triple

T5439837
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University E122102 entity
Predicate hasNotableHolder P1918 FINISHED
Object Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt is an influential American literary critic and Shakespeare scholar best known as a founder of New Historicism and a Pulitzer Prize–winning author.
E520533 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: Stephen Greenblatt | Statement: [Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, hasNotableHolder, Stephen Greenblatt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen Greenblatt
Context triple: [Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, hasNotableHolder, Stephen Greenblatt]
  • A. Harold Bloom
    Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
  • B. Stephen Cornwell
    Stephen Cornwell is a British film producer and screenwriter, known for co-founding The Ink Factory and producing adaptations of John le Carré’s works as well as other international thrillers.
  • C. A. J. Baime
    A. J. Baime is an American author and journalist best known for his narrative nonfiction books on automotive history and high-stakes real-world dramas.
  • D. Hayden White
    Hayden White was an American historian and literary theorist best known for his work on the narrative and rhetorical structures of historical writing, especially in his influential book "Metahistory."
  • E. Edward Hall
    Edward Hall was a 16th-century English lawyer, historian, and chronicler best known for his influential Tudor-era chronicle "The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke."
  • 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: Stephen Greenblatt
Triple: [Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, hasNotableHolder, Stephen Greenblatt]
Generated description
Stephen Greenblatt is an influential American literary critic and Shakespeare scholar best known as a founder of New Historicism and a Pulitzer Prize–winning author.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen Greenblatt
Target entity description: Stephen Greenblatt is an influential American literary critic and Shakespeare scholar best known as a founder of New Historicism and a Pulitzer Prize–winning author.
  • A. Harold Bloom
    Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
  • B. Stephen Cornwell
    Stephen Cornwell is a British film producer and screenwriter, known for co-founding The Ink Factory and producing adaptations of John le Carré’s works as well as other international thrillers.
  • C. A. J. Baime
    A. J. Baime is an American author and journalist best known for his narrative nonfiction books on automotive history and high-stakes real-world dramas.
  • D. Hayden White
    Hayden White was an American historian and literary theorist best known for his work on the narrative and rhetorical structures of historical writing, especially in his influential book "Metahistory."
  • E. Edward Hall
    Edward Hall was a 16th-century English lawyer, historian, and chronicler best known for his influential Tudor-era chronicle "The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke."
  • 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.