Triple

T17040930
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Daniel Everett E413443 entity
Predicate notableIdea P4 FINISHED
Object Pirahã language lacks recursion
"Pirahã language lacks recursion" is a controversial linguistic hypothesis, chiefly advanced by Daniel Everett, claiming that the Pirahã language does not use recursive syntactic structures and thus challenges the universality of recursion in human language.
E1247501 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: Pirahã language lacks recursion | Statement: [Daniel Everett, notableIdea, Pirahã language lacks recursion]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pirahã language lacks recursion
Context triple: [Daniel Everett, notableIdea, Pirahã language lacks recursion]
  • A. On the Origin of Language
    On the Origin of Language is a 19th-century work by philologist Hensleigh Wedgwood that explores the origins and development of human speech and linguistic forms.
  • B. The Architecture of Language
    The Architecture of Language is a poetry collection by Quincy Troupe that showcases his innovative, jazz-inflected style and exploration of African American experience, history, and identity.
  • C. Foundations of Language
    Foundations of Language is a major theoretical work by linguist Ray Jackendoff that proposes an integrated, cognitive-science-based account of how linguistic structure relates to meaning, perception, and the mind.
  • D. A First Language: The Early Stages
    A First Language: The Early Stages is a landmark psycholinguistic study that meticulously documents how a young child acquires and develops their first language over time.
  • E. Treatise on the Origin of Language
    Treatise on the Origin of Language is an influential 18th-century philosophical work that explores the natural, cultural, and historical origins of human language.
  • 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: Pirahã language lacks recursion
Triple: [Daniel Everett, notableIdea, Pirahã language lacks recursion]
Generated description
"Pirahã language lacks recursion" is a controversial linguistic hypothesis, chiefly advanced by Daniel Everett, claiming that the Pirahã language does not use recursive syntactic structures and thus challenges the universality of recursion in human language.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pirahã language lacks recursion
Target entity description: "Pirahã language lacks recursion" is a controversial linguistic hypothesis, chiefly advanced by Daniel Everett, claiming that the Pirahã language does not use recursive syntactic structures and thus challenges the universality of recursion in human language.
  • A. On the Origin of Language
    On the Origin of Language is a 19th-century work by philologist Hensleigh Wedgwood that explores the origins and development of human speech and linguistic forms.
  • B. The Architecture of Language
    The Architecture of Language is a poetry collection by Quincy Troupe that showcases his innovative, jazz-inflected style and exploration of African American experience, history, and identity.
  • C. Foundations of Language
    Foundations of Language is a major theoretical work by linguist Ray Jackendoff that proposes an integrated, cognitive-science-based account of how linguistic structure relates to meaning, perception, and the mind.
  • D. A First Language: The Early Stages
    A First Language: The Early Stages is a landmark psycholinguistic study that meticulously documents how a young child acquires and develops their first language over time.
  • E. Treatise on the Origin of Language
    Treatise on the Origin of Language is an influential 18th-century philosophical work that explores the natural, cultural, and historical origins of human language.
  • 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_69d886cd18288190b006abab23f811b7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d8f6a0c08190a838279b83b55b72 completed April 18, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a012338a95c8190951db96209edb61a completed May 11, 2026, 12:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01241510048190ae1c459873f8a587 completed May 11, 2026, 12:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0124e389908190b2ee3121be2c9383 completed May 11, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.