Triple

T2177743
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir George Cornewall Lewis E48568 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages
"An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages" is a 19th-century scholarly work analyzing the historical development and linguistic structure of the Romance language family.
E242994 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: An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages | Statement: [Sir George Cornewall Lewis, notableWork, An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages
Context triple: [Sir George Cornewall Lewis, notableWork, An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws
    The Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws is a linguistic principle asserting that phonetic changes in a language occur regularly and without exceptions under the same conditions, forming the basis for systematic historical-comparative linguistics.
  • C. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
    "Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech" is a foundational 1921 work in linguistics that systematically explores the nature, structure, and function of human language.
  • D. Methods in Structural Linguistics
    Methods in Structural Linguistics is a foundational 1951 work in linguistics that systematically develops the principles and procedures of structural (distributional) analysis of language.
  • E. Verner's law
    Verner's law is a historical linguistic principle explaining a systematic set of consonant alternations in the Germanic languages that refined and expanded upon Grimm's law.
  • 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: An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages
Triple: [Sir George Cornewall Lewis, notableWork, An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages]
Generated description
"An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages" is a 19th-century scholarly work analyzing the historical development and linguistic structure of the Romance language family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages
Target entity description: "An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages" is a 19th-century scholarly work analyzing the historical development and linguistic structure of the Romance language family.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws
    The Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws is a linguistic principle asserting that phonetic changes in a language occur regularly and without exceptions under the same conditions, forming the basis for systematic historical-comparative linguistics.
  • C. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
    "Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech" is a foundational 1921 work in linguistics that systematically explores the nature, structure, and function of human language.
  • D. Methods in Structural Linguistics
    Methods in Structural Linguistics is a foundational 1951 work in linguistics that systematically develops the principles and procedures of structural (distributional) analysis of language.
  • E. Verner's law
    Verner's law is a historical linguistic principle explaining a systematic set of consonant alternations in the Germanic languages that refined and expanded upon Grimm's law.
  • 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_69a88aa3faa48190995b233af6525815 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbeee0a988190b0729f9070aa4503 completed March 7, 2026, 6 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae5da14e3881909f0beda339599938 completed March 9, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5e5f023081909cd046b5850f8026 completed March 9, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5ef99018819083a778378ea493e8 completed March 9, 2026, 5:47 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:45 p.m.