Triple

T21548352
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alan MacDiarmid E531689 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Blanchard Professor of Chemistry
The Blanchard Professor of Chemistry is a distinguished endowed academic chair in chemistry associated with Nobel Prize–winning chemist Alan MacDiarmid.
 E1490511 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: Blanchard Professor of Chemistry | Statement: [Alan MacDiarmid, positionHeld, Blanchard Professor of Chemistry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Blanchard Professor of Chemistry
Context triple: [Alan MacDiarmid, positionHeld, Blanchard Professor of Chemistry]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • 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: Blanchard Professor of Chemistry
Triple: [Alan MacDiarmid, positionHeld, Blanchard Professor of Chemistry]
Generated description
The Blanchard Professor of Chemistry is a distinguished endowed academic chair in chemistry associated with Nobel Prize–winning chemist Alan MacDiarmid.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Blanchard Professor of Chemistry
Target entity description: The Blanchard Professor of Chemistry is a distinguished endowed academic chair in chemistry associated with Nobel Prize–winning chemist Alan MacDiarmid.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • 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_69e0c45f17148190949c330ab9c27706 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69eeb590bb0881908cd849096696db10 completed April 27, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09eedf8e888190953f55c2e4f6b021 completed May 17, 2026, 4:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09f198f9448190912060dbba608ded completed May 17, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09f22264108190ac07cee73b91befb completed May 17, 2026, 4:51 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:28 p.m.