Triple

T9744440
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Eric Mazur E236270 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University E236270 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University | Statement: [Eric Mazur, positionHeld, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University
Context triple: [Eric Mazur, positionHeld, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University]
  • A. Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University chosen
    Eric Mazur is a Dutch-American physicist and educator renowned for pioneering peer instruction and innovative teaching methods in university physics education.
  • B. Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University
    The Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the university’s physics department, historically associated with leading theoretical physicists such as Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow.
  • C. Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University
    The Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair held by Danish physicist Lene Vestergaard Hau, renowned for her groundbreaking work in slowing and stopping light using ultracold atomic gases.
  • D. Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT
    The Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT is a prestigious endowed chair in the MIT Department of Physics, named in honor of theoretical physicist Herman Feshbach and held by leading researchers in the field.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ca84d3e24481908a476e2231123cf9 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9f2f8e648190ad94c940f9dc1de0 completed April 1, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1affb761881908dde9a4f028c32f6 completed April 5, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:23 p.m.