Triple

T13822800
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Theory of Semiotics E332176 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Ferdinand de Saussure E172769 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Ferdinand de Saussure | Statement: [A Theory of Semiotics, influencedBy, Ferdinand de Saussure]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ferdinand de Saussure
Context triple: [A Theory of Semiotics, influencedBy, Ferdinand de Saussure]
  • A. Ferdinand de Saussure chosen
    Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose foundational work in structural linguistics profoundly shaped 20th-century humanities and social sciences.
  • B. Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure
    Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid the foundations for modern structural linguistics and semiotics.
  • C. Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure
    Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure was a 19th-century Swiss entomologist and mineralogist known for his extensive taxonomic work on insects, particularly Hymenoptera and Orthoptera.
  • D. Roman Jakobson
    Roman Jakobson was a pioneering Russian-American linguist and literary theorist whose work in structuralism and phonology profoundly shaped modern linguistics and semiotics.
  • E. Louis Hjelmslev
    Louis Hjelmslev was a Danish linguist and structuralist theorist best known for developing the formalist framework of glossematics, which sought to create a rigorous, scientific foundation for the study of language.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d81c5ae7c88190b0dd41bdafeb5999 elicitation completed
NER batch_69de0284428081908043c55caeefb833 ner completed
NED1 batch_69f7b8e60e1c81908d51d723e85e0541 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:13 p.m.