Triple

T19479018
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Eric Foner E487328 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University
The DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University is a distinguished endowed chair in the university’s history department, long associated with leading scholars of American history such as Eric Foner.
E1378433 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: DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University | Statement: [Eric Foner, positionHeld, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University
Context triple: [Eric Foner, positionHeld, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Archibald Cary Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University
    The Archibald Cary Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the university’s History Department, named in honor of influential historian and librarian Archibald Cary Coolidge.
  • C. Robinson-Edwards Professor of History at Sarah Lawrence College
    The Robinson-Edwards Professor of History at Sarah Lawrence College is an endowed academic chair in the history department at Sarah Lawrence College, once held by pioneering feminist historian Gerda Lerner.
  • D. Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University
    The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University is a distinguished endowed chair awarded to a leading scholar whose work bridges historical analysis and political science.
  • E. Harrington Professor of History
    Harrington Professor of History is a distinguished endowed academic chair in the field of history, held by historian Alfred W. McCoy.
  • 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: DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University
Triple: [Eric Foner, positionHeld, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University]
Generated description
The DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University is a distinguished endowed chair in the university’s history department, long associated with leading scholars of American history such as Eric Foner.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University
Target entity description: The DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University is a distinguished endowed chair in the university’s history department, long associated with leading scholars of American history such as Eric Foner.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Archibald Cary Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University
    The Archibald Cary Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the university’s History Department, named in honor of influential historian and librarian Archibald Cary Coolidge.
  • C. Robinson-Edwards Professor of History at Sarah Lawrence College
    The Robinson-Edwards Professor of History at Sarah Lawrence College is an endowed academic chair in the history department at Sarah Lawrence College, once held by pioneering feminist historian Gerda Lerner.
  • D. Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University
    The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University is a distinguished endowed chair awarded to a leading scholar whose work bridges historical analysis and political science.
  • E. Harrington Professor of History
    Harrington Professor of History is a distinguished endowed academic chair in the field of history, held by historian Alfred W. McCoy.
  • 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_69d8e8d924388190b847cb15bb3d0aff completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e63437b9748190a8fc6bf6b3d90918 completed April 20, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a074053f7b48190a726ef5e285ed62a completed May 15, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07412a04d0819087c4dc7b5f2742ad completed May 15, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a074197aa14819096a74aab7bca9e3c completed May 15, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:39 p.m.