Triple

T20426819
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bill Bryson E501023 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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 Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way | Statement: [Bill Bryson, notableWork, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Context triple: [Bill Bryson, notableWork, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way]
  • A. The History of Language
    The History of Language is a scholarly work by philologist Henry Sweet that examines the development, structure, and evolution of human languages over time.
  • B. Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
    Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English is a book that explores the history, structure, and cultural significance of African American Vernacular English and argues for its legitimacy as a rich and expressive language variety.
  • C. On Language
    On Language is a popular collection of William Safire’s witty and insightful columns exploring usage, grammar, and the evolution of the English language.
  • D. A Farewell to English
    A Farewell to English is a 1975 poetry collection by Irish poet Michael Hartnett in which he famously renounces writing in English in favor of the Irish language, making it a landmark work in modern Irish literature.
  • E. History and the Testimony of Language
    "History and the Testimony of Language" is a scholarly work by Christopher Ehret that uses comparative historical linguistics to reconstruct aspects of early human history, cultures, and migrations, particularly in Africa.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Target entity description: The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way is a popular nonfiction book that humorously explores the history, quirks, and global evolution of the English language.
  • A. The History of Language
    The History of Language is a scholarly work by philologist Henry Sweet that examines the development, structure, and evolution of human languages over time.
  • B. Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
    Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English is a book that explores the history, structure, and cultural significance of African American Vernacular English and argues for its legitimacy as a rich and expressive language variety.
  • C. On Language
    On Language is a popular collection of William Safire’s witty and insightful columns exploring usage, grammar, and the evolution of the English language.
  • D. A Farewell to English
    A Farewell to English is a 1975 poetry collection by Irish poet Michael Hartnett in which he famously renounces writing in English in favor of the Irish language, making it a landmark work in modern Irish literature.
  • E. History and the Testimony of Language
    "History and the Testimony of Language" is a scholarly work by Christopher Ehret that uses comparative historical linguistics to reconstruct aspects of early human history, cultures, and migrations, particularly in Africa.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69e0b4aa68fc8190b1a14c55575ef04a completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e67ba9700481909fa23493f98095d1 completed April 20, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:30 a.m.