Triple

T1264687
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edward Sapir E12573 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf was an American linguist best known for the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which proposes that the structure of a language influences its speakers’ cognition and worldview.
 E147097 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: Benjamin Lee Whorf | Statement: [Edward Sapir, influenced, Benjamin Lee Whorf]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Benjamin Lee Whorf
Context triple: [Edward Sapir, influenced, Benjamin Lee Whorf]
  • A. 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.
  • B. C. K. Ogden
    C. K. Ogden was a British linguist, philosopher, and writer best known for his work on the theory of language, including the development of Basic English and influential studies in semantics.
  • C. 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.
  • D. George K. Zipf
    George K. Zipf was an American linguist and philologist best known for formulating Zipf's law, which describes the frequency distribution of words in natural language and has broad applications across linguistics, information science, and other fields.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Benjamin Lee Whorf
Triple: [Edward Sapir, influenced, Benjamin Lee Whorf]
Generated description
Benjamin Lee Whorf was an American linguist best known for the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which proposes that the structure of a language influences its speakers’ cognition and worldview.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Benjamin Lee Whorf
Target entity description: Benjamin Lee Whorf was an American linguist best known for the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which proposes that the structure of a language influences its speakers’ cognition and worldview.
  • A. 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.
  • B. C. K. Ogden
    C. K. Ogden was a British linguist, philosopher, and writer best known for his work on the theory of language, including the development of Basic English and influential studies in semantics.
  • C. 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.
  • D. George K. Zipf
    George K. Zipf was an American linguist and philologist best known for formulating Zipf's law, which describes the frequency distribution of words in natural language and has broad applications across linguistics, information science, and other fields.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a4933352e08190ac617291985e76c0 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c03573a48190b5851f0a734c2d6f completed March 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acacb5b8888190aa969c0d8cc3fd0d completed March 7, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acad018a6881908a4c10920f377484 completed March 7, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acad6489448190b7b3dff089a17145 completed March 7, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.