Triple

T16130591
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary Haas E391384 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia
The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia is a seminal linguistic study that documents and analyzes the Kutenai (Ktunaxa) language spoken by Indigenous people in British Columbia.
E1195797 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: The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia | Statement: [Mary Haas, notableWork, The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia
Context triple: [Mary Haas, notableWork, The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia]
  • A. The Languages of Native North America
    The Languages of Native North America is a comprehensive linguistic survey by Marianne Mithun that analyzes the structures, histories, and typological diversity of Indigenous languages across North America.
  • B. Kwakiutl Ethnography
    *Kwakiutl Ethnography* is a foundational anthropological work by Franz Boas that provides an extensive, detailed study of the culture, language, and social life of the Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
  • C. Handbook of American Indian Languages
    The *Handbook of American Indian Languages* is a foundational early 20th-century linguistic work that systematically documents and analyzes numerous Indigenous languages of the Americas.
  • D. American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America
    American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America is a comprehensive scholarly work that surveys, classifies, and analyzes the indigenous languages of the Americas from a historical-comparative perspective.
  • E. Desmond C. Derbyshire’s grammar of Hixkaryana
    Desmond C. Derbyshire’s grammar of Hixkaryana is a landmark descriptive linguistic work that provides a comprehensive analysis of the Amazonian Cariban language Hixkaryana, noted especially for its documentation of object–verb–subject word order.
  • 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: The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia
Triple: [Mary Haas, notableWork, The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia]
Generated description
The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia is a seminal linguistic study that documents and analyzes the Kutenai (Ktunaxa) language spoken by Indigenous people in British Columbia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia
Target entity description: The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia is a seminal linguistic study that documents and analyzes the Kutenai (Ktunaxa) language spoken by Indigenous people in British Columbia.
  • A. The Languages of Native North America
    The Languages of Native North America is a comprehensive linguistic survey by Marianne Mithun that analyzes the structures, histories, and typological diversity of Indigenous languages across North America.
  • B. Kwakiutl Ethnography
    *Kwakiutl Ethnography* is a foundational anthropological work by Franz Boas that provides an extensive, detailed study of the culture, language, and social life of the Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
  • C. Handbook of American Indian Languages
    The *Handbook of American Indian Languages* is a foundational early 20th-century linguistic work that systematically documents and analyzes numerous Indigenous languages of the Americas.
  • D. American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America
    American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America is a comprehensive scholarly work that surveys, classifies, and analyzes the indigenous languages of the Americas from a historical-comparative perspective.
  • E. Desmond C. Derbyshire’s grammar of Hixkaryana
    Desmond C. Derbyshire’s grammar of Hixkaryana is a landmark descriptive linguistic work that provides a comprehensive analysis of the Amazonian Cariban language Hixkaryana, noted especially for its documentation of object–verb–subject word order.
  • 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_69d87f1bb0988190b490d273dbf3fd03 completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e2020829e88190b51ab32d22cf0259 completed April 17, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fff2aff07c8190bf693f652e2a2808 completed May 10, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fff39371648190b3f694df00ff4f3e completed May 10, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fff47a52cc8190b0ad7c37ea444159 completed May 10, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:01 a.m.