Triple

T2247682
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Horace Bénédict de Saussure E49544 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object de Saussure
De Saussure is a notable Swiss family name associated with influential figures in science and the humanities, including the naturalist Horace Bénédict de Saussure and linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.
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: de Saussure | Statement: [Horace Bénédict de Saussure, familyName, de Saussure]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: de Saussure
Context triple: [Horace Bénédict de Saussure, familyName, de Saussure]
  • A. Ferdinand de Saussure
    Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose foundational work in structural linguistics profoundly shaped 20th-century humanities and social sciences.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: de Saussure
Triple: [Horace Bénédict de Saussure, familyName, de Saussure]
Generated description
De Saussure is a notable Swiss family name associated with influential figures in science and the humanities, including the naturalist Horace Bénédict de Saussure and linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: de Saussure
Target entity description: De Saussure is a notable Swiss family name associated with influential figures in science and the humanities, including the naturalist Horace Bénédict de Saussure and linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.
  • A. Ferdinand de Saussure chosen
    Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist whose foundational work in structural linguistics profoundly shaped 20th-century humanities and social sciences.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a88aa979788190ad6500f1d8eee2fc completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc0ed5c38819080b45ea398fb59f2 completed March 7, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b1719c481909ec3ff03d2a6f3bd completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6bcfd2c481908f69df77f40655e2 completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6c4d9c04819086e3091bbbf16099 completed March 9, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.