Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech
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The Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech is a distinguished endowed professorship in Caltech’s Electrical Engineering department, held by leading researchers such as Ali Hajimiri.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8127279 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech Context triple: [Ali Hajimiri, positionHeld, Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech]
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A.
Linde Professor of Physics, Caltech
The Linde Professor of Physics at Caltech is a prestigious endowed faculty chair in the physics department at the California Institute of Technology, held by leading researchers in the field.
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B.
Herbert S. Winokur Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University
The Herbert S. Winokur Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, held by a leading scholar recognized for outstanding contributions to research and education in engineering and applied sciences.
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C.
Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering
The Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering is a distinguished endowed chair at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recognizing exceptional scholarship and leadership in electrical engineering.
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D.
Bren Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology
The Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology is a prestigious endowed faculty chair in Caltech’s chemistry department, held by distinguished chemist Peter B. Dervan.
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E.
Vice Provost of California Institute of Technology
The Vice Provost of the California Institute of Technology is a senior academic administrator responsible for overseeing key aspects of the institute’s educational and research programs and supporting the provost in institutional governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech Target entity description: The Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech is a distinguished endowed professorship in Caltech’s Electrical Engineering department, held by leading researchers such as Ali Hajimiri.
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A.
Linde Professor of Physics, Caltech
The Linde Professor of Physics at Caltech is a prestigious endowed faculty chair in the physics department at the California Institute of Technology, held by leading researchers in the field.
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B.
Herbert S. Winokur Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University
The Herbert S. Winokur Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, held by a leading scholar recognized for outstanding contributions to research and education in engineering and applied sciences.
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C.
Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering
The Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering is a distinguished endowed chair at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recognizing exceptional scholarship and leadership in electrical engineering.
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D.
Bren Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology
The Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology is a prestigious endowed faculty chair in Caltech’s chemistry department, held by distinguished chemist Peter B. Dervan.
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E.
Vice Provost of California Institute of Technology
The Vice Provost of the California Institute of Technology is a senior academic administrator responsible for overseeing key aspects of the institute’s educational and research programs and supporting the provost in institutional governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic chair
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endowed professorship ⓘ |
| academicDepartment | Electrical Engineering Department at Caltech NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | engineering ⓘ |
| academicInstitution | California Institute of Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| affiliation | Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Caltech faculty
ⓘ
research in electrical engineering ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| field | electrical engineering ⓘ |
| hasHolderType | leading researcher ⓘ |
| heldBy | Ali Hajimiri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| holdsTitle | Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech ⓘ |
| isDistinguished | true ⓘ |
| isEndowed | true ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| level | professorship ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Pasadena, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Thomas G. Myers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionType | faculty position ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech Description of subject: The Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech is a distinguished endowed professorship in Caltech’s Electrical Engineering department, held by leading researchers such as Ali Hajimiri.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.