Triple

T1204566
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Greater North Borneo languages E25858 entity
Predicate proposedBy P32 FINISHED
Object Robert Blust
Robert Blust was an influential American linguist and Austronesian specialist known for his extensive comparative and historical work on the languages of the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
E138026 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: Robert Blust | Statement: [Greater North Borneo languages, proposedBy, Robert Blust]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Blust
Context triple: [Greater North Borneo languages, proposedBy, Robert Blust]
  • A. Joseph Greenberg
    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.
  • B. Edward Sapir
    Edward Sapir was a pioneering American anthropologist-linguist whose work on language, culture, and cognition helped lay the foundations of modern linguistics and linguistic anthropology.
  • C. Richard Ben-Veniste
    Richard Ben-Veniste is an American lawyer and former Watergate prosecutor who served as a Democratic member of the 9/11 Commission.
  • D. John R. Rickford
    John R. Rickford is a prominent sociolinguist known for his influential work on varieties of English, especially African American Vernacular English and other ethnic dialects in the United States.
  • E. Walt Wolfram
    Walt Wolfram is an American sociolinguist renowned for his pioneering research on American English dialects and language variation, including minority and regional varieties.
  • 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: Robert Blust
Triple: [Greater North Borneo languages, proposedBy, Robert Blust]
Generated description
Robert Blust was an influential American linguist and Austronesian specialist known for his extensive comparative and historical work on the languages of the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Blust
Target entity description: Robert Blust was an influential American linguist and Austronesian specialist known for his extensive comparative and historical work on the languages of the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
  • A. Joseph Greenberg
    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.
  • B. Edward Sapir
    Edward Sapir was a pioneering American anthropologist-linguist whose work on language, culture, and cognition helped lay the foundations of modern linguistics and linguistic anthropology.
  • C. Richard Ben-Veniste
    Richard Ben-Veniste is an American lawyer and former Watergate prosecutor who served as a Democratic member of the 9/11 Commission.
  • D. John R. Rickford
    John R. Rickford is a prominent sociolinguist known for his influential work on varieties of English, especially African American Vernacular English and other ethnic dialects in the United States.
  • E. Walt Wolfram
    Walt Wolfram is an American sociolinguist renowned for his pioneering research on American English dialects and language variation, including minority and regional varieties.
  • 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_69a4942b30f08190a91c60573e16b5ef completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bdc0f8d08190b340012a9eb26275 completed March 1, 2026, 10:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac7f3caed481908e9e4b6b9daa544d completed March 7, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac7fa90f608190bec0c7dff1d7c9ae completed March 7, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac808a919081908253d1778695ab2d completed March 7, 2026, 7:46 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.