Triple

T7930760
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cynthia Kenyon E184182 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF
The Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF is an endowed faculty position named in honor of genetic engineering pioneer Herbert Boyer, recognizing a leading scientist in molecular biology and related fields at the University of California, San Francisco.
E697093 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: Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF | Statement: [Cynthia Kenyon, positionHeld, Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF
Context triple: [Cynthia Kenyon, positionHeld, Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF]
  • A. J.W. Kieckhefer Distinguished Research Professor at the Salk Institute
    The J.W. Kieckhefer Distinguished Research Professor at the Salk Institute is a prestigious endowed research chair once held by molecular biologist and DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick.
  • B. MacAdams Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley
    The MacAdams Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley is an endowed faculty chair in the University of California, Berkeley’s physics department, held by theoretical physicist Hitoshi Murayama.
  • C. Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University
    The Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the natural sciences held by distinguished faculty such as Nobel laureate Dudley R. Herschbach.
  • D. Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute
    The Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute is a distinguished endowed professorship in neuroscience named after DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick.
  • E. Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
    The Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics is a distinguished endowed professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill held by Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Aziz Sancar.
  • 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: Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF
Triple: [Cynthia Kenyon, positionHeld, Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF]
Generated description
The Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF is an endowed faculty position named in honor of genetic engineering pioneer Herbert Boyer, recognizing a leading scientist in molecular biology and related fields at the University of California, San Francisco.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF
Target entity description: The Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF is an endowed faculty position named in honor of genetic engineering pioneer Herbert Boyer, recognizing a leading scientist in molecular biology and related fields at the University of California, San Francisco.
  • A. J.W. Kieckhefer Distinguished Research Professor at the Salk Institute
    The J.W. Kieckhefer Distinguished Research Professor at the Salk Institute is a prestigious endowed research chair once held by molecular biologist and DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick.
  • B. MacAdams Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley
    The MacAdams Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley is an endowed faculty chair in the University of California, Berkeley’s physics department, held by theoretical physicist Hitoshi Murayama.
  • C. Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University
    The Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the natural sciences held by distinguished faculty such as Nobel laureate Dudley R. Herschbach.
  • D. Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute
    The Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute is a distinguished endowed professorship in neuroscience named after DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick.
  • E. Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
    The Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics is a distinguished endowed professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill held by Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Aziz Sancar.
  • 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_69ca8290c21c8190906a5ca6fe2b03c4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3accc388819087065ebe7d5d9591 completed March 31, 2026, 3:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5c01602081908ea1af24785260ff completed March 31, 2026, 5:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb5f22f89c8190a98208bf096a2427 completed March 31, 2026, 5:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb76d2dff8819085ad9e10baad1537 completed March 31, 2026, 7:25 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:07 p.m.