Triple

T12276087
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Middle English vowel system E292592 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object Early Modern English vowel system
The Early Modern English vowel system was the transitional stage of English pronunciation, marked by the Great Vowel Shift and other changes that reshaped the long-vowel inventory into a form closer to that of Present-Day English.
E976158 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: Early Modern English vowel system | Statement: [Middle English vowel system, followedBy, Early Modern English vowel system]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Early Modern English vowel system
Context triple: [Middle English vowel system, followedBy, Early Modern English vowel system]
  • A. Middle English vowel system
    The Middle English vowel system was the set of long and short vowel sounds used in English between roughly the 12th and 15th centuries, whose structure and qualities were dramatically reorganized during the Great Vowel Shift.
  • B. The Sound Pattern of English
    The Sound Pattern of English is a foundational 1968 work in generative phonology by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle that systematically analyzes the phonological component of grammar within the framework of transformational-generative linguistics.
  • C. Great Vowel Shift (late phase)
    The Great Vowel Shift (late phase) was the final stage of a major historical change in English pronunciation during which many long vowel sounds in Middle English moved closer to their modern English values.
  • D. Great Vowel Shift (early phase)
    The Great Vowel Shift (early phase) is the initial stage of the major historical change in English pronunciation during which several long vowels began shifting upward in tongue position, setting off the chain of sound changes that transformed Middle English into Early Modern English.
  • E. A Historical Phonology of Breton
    A Historical Phonology of Breton is a seminal linguistic study by Kenneth H. Jackson that traces the sound changes and development of the Breton language over time.
  • 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: Early Modern English vowel system
Triple: [Middle English vowel system, followedBy, Early Modern English vowel system]
Generated description
The Early Modern English vowel system was the transitional stage of English pronunciation, marked by the Great Vowel Shift and other changes that reshaped the long-vowel inventory into a form closer to that of Present-Day English.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Early Modern English vowel system
Target entity description: The Early Modern English vowel system was the transitional stage of English pronunciation, marked by the Great Vowel Shift and other changes that reshaped the long-vowel inventory into a form closer to that of Present-Day English.
  • A. Middle English vowel system
    The Middle English vowel system was the set of long and short vowel sounds used in English between roughly the 12th and 15th centuries, whose structure and qualities were dramatically reorganized during the Great Vowel Shift.
  • B. The Sound Pattern of English
    The Sound Pattern of English is a foundational 1968 work in generative phonology by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle that systematically analyzes the phonological component of grammar within the framework of transformational-generative linguistics.
  • C. Great Vowel Shift (late phase)
    The Great Vowel Shift (late phase) was the final stage of a major historical change in English pronunciation during which many long vowel sounds in Middle English moved closer to their modern English values.
  • D. Great Vowel Shift (early phase)
    The Great Vowel Shift (early phase) is the initial stage of the major historical change in English pronunciation during which several long vowels began shifting upward in tongue position, setting off the chain of sound changes that transformed Middle English into Early Modern English.
  • E. A Historical Phonology of Breton
    A Historical Phonology of Breton is a seminal linguistic study by Kenneth H. Jackson that traces the sound changes and development of the Breton language over time.
  • 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_69d6ab6856488190b5d31178d5015f8e completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91cf06cf08190ac8671dd9bbed03d completed April 10, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f61e6d72d081908c8697257df712f1 completed May 2, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f620759f348190baa9af5b33d4e37f completed May 2, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f624bf23948190b182e4c31564d210 completed May 2, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:52 p.m.