Triple

T1515163
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Claude Lévi-Strauss E32101 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose foundational work in structural linguistics profoundly shaped 20th-century humanities and social sciences.
E172769 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: Ferdinand de Saussure | Statement: [Claude Lévi-Strauss, influencedBy, Ferdinand de Saussure]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ferdinand de Saussure
Context triple: [Claude Lévi-Strauss, influencedBy, Ferdinand de Saussure]
  • A. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Ferdinand de Saussure
Triple: [Claude Lévi-Strauss, influencedBy, Ferdinand de Saussure]
Generated description
Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose foundational work in structural linguistics profoundly shaped 20th-century humanities and social sciences.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ferdinand de Saussure
Target entity description: Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose foundational work in structural linguistics profoundly shaped 20th-century humanities and social sciences.
  • A. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a885e8caf88190a5fbb6159ce87786 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a907da75388190bfbdbedbd46adbdc completed March 5, 2026, 4:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad23429f1c81909f435030de687675 completed March 8, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad24acd82481908b052cecb555b213 completed March 8, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad254d930c81908932aa76640121ba completed March 8, 2026, 7:29 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.