Triple

T13307997
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject K. Barry Sharpless E316985 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry
The W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry is a prestigious endowed faculty chair in chemistry, supported by the W. M. Keck Foundation and held by leading researchers in the field.
 E1032297 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: W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry | Statement: [K. Barry Sharpless, positionHeld, W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry
Context triple: [K. Barry Sharpless, positionHeld, W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry]
  • A. Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry
    The Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry is a distinguished endowed professorship in the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • B. James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry
    The James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry is a prestigious endowed professorship at Princeton University held by Nobel Prize–winning chemist David W. C. MacMillan.
  • C. Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry
    The Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry is a distinguished endowed professorship in the field of chemistry, notably held by Nobel Prize–winning chemist Robert H. Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology.
  • D. Amos B. Smith III Professor of Chemistry
    The Amos B. Smith III Professor of Chemistry is a distinguished endowed chair in the field of chemistry named in honor of organic chemist Amos B. Smith III.
  • E. Fullerian Professor of Chemistry
    The Fullerian Professor of Chemistry is a prestigious chair at the Royal Institution in London historically associated with leading experimental chemists such as Michael Faraday.
  • 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: W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry
Triple: [K. Barry Sharpless, positionHeld, W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry]
Generated description
The W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry is a prestigious endowed faculty chair in chemistry, supported by the W. M. Keck Foundation and held by leading researchers in the field.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry
Target entity description: The W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry is a prestigious endowed faculty chair in chemistry, supported by the W. M. Keck Foundation and held by leading researchers in the field.
  • A. Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry
    The Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry is a distinguished endowed professorship in the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • B. James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry
    The James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry is a prestigious endowed professorship at Princeton University held by Nobel Prize–winning chemist David W. C. MacMillan.
  • C. Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry
    The Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry is a distinguished endowed professorship in the field of chemistry, notably held by Nobel Prize–winning chemist Robert H. Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology.
  • D. Amos B. Smith III Professor of Chemistry
    The Amos B. Smith III Professor of Chemistry is a distinguished endowed chair in the field of chemistry named in honor of organic chemist Amos B. Smith III.
  • E. Fullerian Professor of Chemistry
    The Fullerian Professor of Chemistry is a prestigious chair at the Royal Institution in London historically associated with leading experimental chemists such as Michael Faraday.
  • 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_69d806b40ab4819094adf6c374f4811a completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d990a8be108190bad0021f95ce3a93 completed April 11, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f716e58cc48190afb46e8394227ab5 completed May 3, 2026, 9:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7179da5488190a10acadbf60ea470 completed May 3, 2026, 9:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7184c55108190a4d60a5bf4bd2208 completed May 3, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:29 p.m.