Triple
T11031616
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Jones (philologist) |
E260769
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
The Sanskrit Language (1786 discourse)
The Sanskrit Language (1786 discourse) is Sir William Jones’s landmark 1786 address to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in which he famously argued for a common origin of Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and other languages, helping to found the field of comparative linguistics and Indo-European studies.
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E901587
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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: The Sanskrit Language (1786 discourse) | Statement: [William Jones (philologist), notableWork, The Sanskrit Language (1786 discourse)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Sanskrit Language (1786 discourse) Context triple: [William Jones (philologist), notableWork, The Sanskrit Language (1786 discourse)]
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A.
Bhartṛhari’s school of sphoṭa theory
Bhartṛhari’s school of sphoṭa theory is a classical Indian linguistic-philosophical tradition that holds that meaning is grasped through an indivisible, holistic burst of language rather than through discrete words or sounds.
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B.
Treatise on the Origin of Language
Treatise on the Origin of Language is an influential 18th-century philosophical work that explores the natural, cultural, and historical origins of human language.
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C.
Translations of the Upanishads
Translations of the Upanishads is an early 19th-century English rendering of key Hindu philosophical texts that helped introduce Upanishadic thought to Western and modern Indian intellectual circles.
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D.
Prolegomena to the First Two Tibetan Grammatical Treatises
Prolegomena to the First Two Tibetan Grammatical Treatises is a scholarly work by linguist Roy Andrew Miller that provides critical analysis and contextual introduction to the earliest known Tibetan grammatical texts.
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E.
Of the Origin and Progress of Language
Of the Origin and Progress of Language is an 18th-century multi-volume work by Scottish judge and philosopher James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, exploring the natural origins, development, and structure of human language within a broader theory of human nature and society.
- 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: The Sanskrit Language (1786 discourse) Triple: [William Jones (philologist), notableWork, The Sanskrit Language (1786 discourse)]
Generated description
The Sanskrit Language (1786 discourse) is Sir William Jones’s landmark 1786 address to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in which he famously argued for a common origin of Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and other languages, helping to found the field of comparative linguistics and Indo-European studies.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Sanskrit Language (1786 discourse) Target entity description: The Sanskrit Language (1786 discourse) is Sir William Jones’s landmark 1786 address to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in which he famously argued for a common origin of Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and other languages, helping to found the field of comparative linguistics and Indo-European studies.
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A.
Bhartṛhari’s school of sphoṭa theory
Bhartṛhari’s school of sphoṭa theory is a classical Indian linguistic-philosophical tradition that holds that meaning is grasped through an indivisible, holistic burst of language rather than through discrete words or sounds.
-
B.
Treatise on the Origin of Language
Treatise on the Origin of Language is an influential 18th-century philosophical work that explores the natural, cultural, and historical origins of human language.
-
C.
Translations of the Upanishads
Translations of the Upanishads is an early 19th-century English rendering of key Hindu philosophical texts that helped introduce Upanishadic thought to Western and modern Indian intellectual circles.
-
D.
Prolegomena to the First Two Tibetan Grammatical Treatises
Prolegomena to the First Two Tibetan Grammatical Treatises is a scholarly work by linguist Roy Andrew Miller that provides critical analysis and contextual introduction to the earliest known Tibetan grammatical texts.
-
E.
Of the Origin and Progress of Language
Of the Origin and Progress of Language is an 18th-century multi-volume work by Scottish judge and philosopher James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, exploring the natural origins, development, and structure of human language within a broader theory of human nature and society.
- 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_69d6aa979bdc8190bf0e79104cc098c1 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d797e58aec8190bb8ffdc71c0614d2 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 12:13 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e3a9a6db688190a740b787448d97b2 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 3:56 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69e3b1dfea348190a61eb19266801ad0 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 4:31 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69e3b2c65fa081908038cc2f71e49073 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 4:35 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:25 p.m.