Triple

T1264709
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edward Sapir E12573 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object J. David Sapir
J. David Sapir is an American anthropologist and linguist known for his work on West African languages and cultures and for being the son of renowned linguist Edward Sapir.
E151774 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: J. David Sapir | Statement: [Edward Sapir, child, J. David Sapir]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. David Sapir
Context triple: [Edward Sapir, child, J. David Sapir]
  • 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. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • E. Alfred L. Kroeber
    Alfred L. Kroeber was a pioneering American anthropologist known for his influential work on Native American cultures, linguistic anthropology, and the development of cultural anthropology in the United States.
  • 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: J. David Sapir
Triple: [Edward Sapir, child, J. David Sapir]
Generated description
J. David Sapir is an American anthropologist and linguist known for his work on West African languages and cultures and for being the son of renowned linguist Edward Sapir.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. David Sapir
Target entity description: J. David Sapir is an American anthropologist and linguist known for his work on West African languages and cultures and for being the son of renowned linguist Edward Sapir.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • E. Alfred L. Kroeber
    Alfred L. Kroeber was a pioneering American anthropologist known for his influential work on Native American cultures, linguistic anthropology, and the development of cultural anthropology in the United States.
  • 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_69acbf1fa1148190a8a8a5b3e34946f0 completed March 8, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acbf873544819099d3dff98a6b2244 completed March 8, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc06483b08190b5b29f684b83f43f completed March 8, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.