Triple

T692524
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sheila Widnall E13824 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object 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.
E87083 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: Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Statement: [Sheila Widnall, positionHeld, Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Context triple: [Sheila Widnall, positionHeld, Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
  • A. 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.
  • B. President of MIT
    The President of MIT is the chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, responsible for its overall academic leadership, strategic direction, and institutional governance.
  • C. Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    The Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a prestigious endowed chair in MIT’s economics department held by leading scholar Daron Acemoglu.
  • D. MIT School of Engineering
    The MIT School of Engineering is the largest and most renowned academic unit of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known globally for pioneering research and education in engineering and applied sciences.
  • E. Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University is the main academic division that oversees Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and several other schools, encompassing the university’s core liberal arts and sciences teaching and research.
  • 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: Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Triple: [Sheila Widnall, positionHeld, Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. 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.
  • B. President of MIT
    The President of MIT is the chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, responsible for its overall academic leadership, strategic direction, and institutional governance.
  • C. Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    The Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a prestigious endowed chair in MIT’s economics department held by leading scholar Daron Acemoglu.
  • D. MIT School of Engineering
    The MIT School of Engineering is the largest and most renowned academic unit of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known globally for pioneering research and education in engineering and applied sciences.
  • E. Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University is the main academic division that oversees Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and several other schools, encompassing the university’s core liberal arts and sciences teaching and research.
  • 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_69a493406c408190957eeec9048a8fb6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a0b05f2c8190876c73db15b489a2 completed March 1, 2026, 8:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a637514c9081909938d0801f071fea completed March 3, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a63b69c1788190b9bc613d04d7d5b0 completed March 3, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a63bc5a9808190b881ebd85d3d6ee8 completed March 3, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.