Erving Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University
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The Erving Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in Harvard's chemistry department historically held by notable chemists such as Josiah Parsons Cooke.
All labels observed (1)
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| Erving Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8862596 — 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: Erving Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University Context triple: [Josiah Parsons Cooke, hasHonorificTitle, Erving Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University]
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Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University
The Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, historically associated with leading researchers such as Nobel laureate Elias J. Corey.
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Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University
The Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the natural sciences held by distinguished faculty such as Nobel laureate Dudley R. Herschbach.
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J. Willard Gibbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University
The J. Willard Gibbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University is a distinguished endowed chair in theoretical chemistry named after pioneering American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs.
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Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University
The Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the university’s physics department, historically associated with leading theoretical physicists such as Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow.
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Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University
The Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University is a distinguished endowed chair in the university’s chemistry department, held by leading researchers recognized for exceptional contributions to the field.
- 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: Erving Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University Target entity description: The Erving Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in Harvard's chemistry department historically held by notable chemists such as Josiah Parsons Cooke.
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A.
Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University
The Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, historically associated with leading researchers such as Nobel laureate Elias J. Corey.
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B.
Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University
The Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the natural sciences held by distinguished faculty such as Nobel laureate Dudley R. Herschbach.
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J. Willard Gibbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University
The J. Willard Gibbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University is a distinguished endowed chair in theoretical chemistry named after pioneering American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs.
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Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University
The Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the university’s physics department, historically associated with leading theoretical physicists such as Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow.
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Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University
The Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University is a distinguished endowed chair in the university’s chemistry department, held by leading researchers recognized for exceptional contributions to the field.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
academic position
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endowed chair ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | chemistry ⓘ |
| affiliation | Harvard University ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasHolder | Josiah Parsons Cooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Harvard University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedFor | Erving (family or donor) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Erving Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University Description of subject: The Erving Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in Harvard's chemistry department historically held by notable chemists such as Josiah Parsons Cooke.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.