Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edward Said E29115 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object University Professor at Columbia University
University Professor at Columbia University is the highest academic rank at Columbia, reserved for a small number of exceptionally distinguished scholars whose work has had broad, transformative impact across disciplines.
E156982 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: University Professor at Columbia University | Statement: [Edward Said, positionHeld, University Professor at Columbia University]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: University Professor at Columbia University
Context triple: [Edward Said, positionHeld, University Professor at Columbia University]
  • A. University Professor at Boston University
    University Professor at Boston University is a prestigious senior academic title awarded to distinguished scholars at Boston University in recognition of exceptional achievement and impact in their fields.
  • B. Institute Professor at MIT
    Institute Professor at MIT is the highest faculty rank at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reserved for a small number of exceptionally distinguished scholars recognized for outstanding contributions to their fields.
  • C. Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an academic position held by faculty members who teach, conduct research, and contribute to scholarship at the renowned science and engineering-focused university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • D. Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard University
    The Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the university’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, historically associated with leading scholars such as poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
  • E. Yale University faculty
    Yale University faculty are the scholars and instructors who teach, conduct research, and provide academic leadership across the university’s various schools and departments.
  • 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: University Professor at Columbia University
Triple: [Edward Said, positionHeld, University Professor at Columbia University]
Generated description
University Professor at Columbia University is the highest academic rank at Columbia, reserved for a small number of exceptionally distinguished scholars whose work has had broad, transformative impact across disciplines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: University Professor at Columbia University
Target entity description: University Professor at Columbia University is the highest academic rank at Columbia, reserved for a small number of exceptionally distinguished scholars whose work has had broad, transformative impact across disciplines.
  • A. University Professor at Boston University
    University Professor at Boston University is a prestigious senior academic title awarded to distinguished scholars at Boston University in recognition of exceptional achievement and impact in their fields.
  • B. Institute Professor at MIT
    Institute Professor at MIT is the highest faculty rank at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reserved for a small number of exceptionally distinguished scholars recognized for outstanding contributions to their fields.
  • C. Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an academic position held by faculty members who teach, conduct research, and contribute to scholarship at the renowned science and engineering-focused university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • D. Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard University
    The Smith Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the university’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, historically associated with leading scholars such as poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
  • E. Yale University faculty
    Yale University faculty are the scholars and instructors who teach, conduct research, and provide academic leadership across the university’s various schools and departments.
  • 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_69a498d77abc8190913bf57e5f51d2c4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c2b2fb448190bef31375169b4666 completed March 1, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acce7449548190917277dbc715cde4 completed March 8, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acd06d000481909f6d934e857236f0 completed March 8, 2026, 1:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acd17b8c508190812b241d7906992b completed March 8, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:57 p.m.