Triple

T7239632
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas McCarthy E155321 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities
The John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities is a distinguished endowed academic chair in the humanities held by philosopher Thomas McCarthy.
 E650843 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: John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities | Statement: [Thomas McCarthy, positionHeld, John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities
Context triple: [Thomas McCarthy, positionHeld, John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities]
  • A. Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
    The Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities is a prestigious endowed academic chair in the humanities, notably held by Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel.
  • B. John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy
    The John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy is a distinguished endowed chair at the University of Notre Dame held by leading scholars such as Alvin Plantinga.
  • C. Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy
    The Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy is a distinguished endowed chair at the University of California, Berkeley, held by leading scholars such as Bernard Williams.
  • D. Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication
    The Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication is an endowed academic chair in communication studies named in honor of influential communication scholar Steven H. Chaffee.
  • E. Alva O. Way University Professor
    The Alva O. Way University Professor is a distinguished endowed professorship at Brown University held by eminent historian Gordon S. Wood.
  • 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: John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities
Triple: [Thomas McCarthy, positionHeld, John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities]
Generated description
The John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities is a distinguished endowed academic chair in the humanities held by philosopher Thomas McCarthy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities
Target entity description: The John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities is a distinguished endowed academic chair in the humanities held by philosopher Thomas McCarthy.
  • A. Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
    The Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities is a prestigious endowed academic chair in the humanities, notably held by Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel.
  • B. John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy
    The John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy is a distinguished endowed chair at the University of Notre Dame held by leading scholars such as Alvin Plantinga.
  • C. Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy
    The Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy is a distinguished endowed chair at the University of California, Berkeley, held by leading scholars such as Bernard Williams.
  • D. Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication
    The Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication is an endowed academic chair in communication studies named in honor of influential communication scholar Steven H. Chaffee.
  • E. Alva O. Way University Professor
    The Alva O. Way University Professor is a distinguished endowed professorship at Brown University held by eminent historian Gordon S. Wood.
  • 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_69c688143bfc81908d4176617735e601 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ea37fa9081908e9c3abe49d151e5 completed March 27, 2026, 8:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7cc3d75b48190916bf327396f2666 completed March 28, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7ce24f4148190877852983c9aadb5 completed March 28, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7ce9f73508190a2d1eb35237c3073 completed March 28, 2026, 12:50 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:55 p.m.