Triple
T11423280
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Proto-Niger–Congo |
E270680
|
entity |
| Predicate | researchedBy |
P1945
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Joseph H. Greenberg |
E49682
|
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: Joseph H. Greenberg | Statement: [Proto-Niger–Congo, researchedBy, Joseph H. Greenberg]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph H. Greenberg Context triple: [Proto-Niger–Congo, researchedBy, Joseph H. Greenberg]
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A.
Joseph Greenberg
chosen
Joseph Greenberg was an influential American linguist best known for his work on language classification and universals, including proposing major language families such as Nilo-Saharan.
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B.
Morris Swadesh
Morris Swadesh was an American linguist best known for pioneering lexicostatistics and glottochronology, methods for studying language classification and historical relationships through core vocabulary comparison.
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C.
Jean Sapir
Jean Sapir is a member of the Sapir family, known primarily as the sibling of anthropologist and linguist J. David Sapir.
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D.
Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Bloomfield was an influential American linguist whose work in the early 20th century helped establish structural linguistics as a rigorous, scientific discipline.
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E.
Kenneth Hale
Kenneth Hale was an influential American linguist renowned for his work on indigenous and endangered languages, especially in the Americas and Australia, and for his contributions to theoretical syntax and language preservation.
- 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_69d6aadeef688190874bcecd88b3dd9b |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d801b357e88190ace56d36a945688f |
completed | April 9, 2026, 7:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e5b8a1e88c8190994bea88a0490e60 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 5:24 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.