Triple

T8047937
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ehsan Yarshater E187600 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies
The Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies is a distinguished endowed academic chair in Iranian studies, notably held by the renowned scholar Ehsan Yarshater.
 E187600 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: Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies | Statement: [Ehsan Yarshater, positionHeld, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies
Context triple: [Ehsan Yarshater, positionHeld, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies]
  • A. Iranian studies
    Iranian studies is an academic field devoted to the research of the languages, history, literature, and cultures of Iranian peoples and the broader Iranian cultural sphere.
  • B. Asef Bayat
    Asef Bayat is an Iranian-born sociologist and scholar of the Middle East known for his influential work on social movements, everyday resistance, and political change in the Muslim world.
  • C. Ehsan Yarshater
    Ehsan Yarshater was a prominent Iranian historian and Iranologist best known as the founding editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica and a leading scholar of Persian language and literature.
  • D. Omid Kordestani
    Omid Kordestani is an Iranian-American business executive best known for senior leadership roles at major tech companies including Google and Twitter.
  • E. Hossein Amanat
    Hossein Amanat is an Iranian-Canadian architect best known for designing Tehran’s iconic Azadi Tower, a symbol of modern Iran.
  • 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: Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies
Triple: [Ehsan Yarshater, positionHeld, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies]
Generated description
The Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies is a distinguished endowed academic chair in Iranian studies, notably held by the renowned scholar Ehsan Yarshater.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies
Target entity description: The Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies is a distinguished endowed academic chair in Iranian studies, notably held by the renowned scholar Ehsan Yarshater.
  • A. Iranian studies
    Iranian studies is an academic field devoted to the research of the languages, history, literature, and cultures of Iranian peoples and the broader Iranian cultural sphere.
  • B. Asef Bayat
    Asef Bayat is an Iranian-born sociologist and scholar of the Middle East known for his influential work on social movements, everyday resistance, and political change in the Muslim world.
  • C. Ehsan Yarshater chosen
    Ehsan Yarshater was a prominent Iranian historian and Iranologist best known as the founding editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica and a leading scholar of Persian language and literature.
  • D. Omid Kordestani
    Omid Kordestani is an Iranian-American business executive best known for senior leadership roles at major tech companies including Google and Twitter.
  • E. Hossein Amanat
    Hossein Amanat is an Iranian-Canadian architect best known for designing Tehran’s iconic Azadi Tower, a symbol of modern Iran.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca82b15e948190a62fd7af5218426a completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3f7711f48190af2002533c2e426a completed March 31, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc5716934481908ec60cc9fd825ad7 completed March 31, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc58acba3c8190b7d09aa23b5f10f8 completed March 31, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc5ccee5648190a8ebdf8029eded98 completed March 31, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:24 p.m.