Triple

T2720051
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Unami language E60059 entity
Predicate documentedBy P4310 FINISHED
Object linguist John O. Rankin
John O. Rankin is a linguist known for his documentation and analysis of the Unami language, a dialect of the Lenape (Delaware) Native American language.
E293212 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: linguist John O. Rankin | Statement: [Unami language, documentedBy, linguist John O. Rankin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: linguist John O. Rankin
Context triple: [Unami language, documentedBy, linguist John O. Rankin]
  • A. Paul Kiparsky
    Paul Kiparsky is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in generative phonology and historical linguistics.
  • B. Robert Blust
    Robert Blust was an influential American linguist and Austronesian specialist known for his extensive comparative and historical work on the languages of the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
  • C. Morris Swadesh
    Morris Swadesh was an American linguist best known for pioneering lexicostatistics and glottochronology, methods for studying language classification and historical relationships through core vocabulary comparison.
  • 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. J. Lee Rankin
    J. Lee Rankin was an American lawyer and former U.S. Solicitor General who played a key role in major mid-20th-century legal and governmental investigations, including the inquiry into President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
  • 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: linguist John O. Rankin
Triple: [Unami language, documentedBy, linguist John O. Rankin]
Generated description
John O. Rankin is a linguist known for his documentation and analysis of the Unami language, a dialect of the Lenape (Delaware) Native American language.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: linguist John O. Rankin
Target entity description: John O. Rankin is a linguist known for his documentation and analysis of the Unami language, a dialect of the Lenape (Delaware) Native American language.
  • A. Paul Kiparsky
    Paul Kiparsky is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in generative phonology and historical linguistics.
  • B. Robert Blust
    Robert Blust was an influential American linguist and Austronesian specialist known for his extensive comparative and historical work on the languages of the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
  • C. Morris Swadesh
    Morris Swadesh was an American linguist best known for pioneering lexicostatistics and glottochronology, methods for studying language classification and historical relationships through core vocabulary comparison.
  • 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. J. Lee Rankin
    J. Lee Rankin was an American lawyer and former U.S. Solicitor General who played a key role in major mid-20th-century legal and governmental investigations, including the inquiry into President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
  • 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_69ab4b746d248190958e052045c09255 completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdab06d388190acf690787fe58ab5 completed March 7, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afb68ebd0081908bb360872d559e1f completed March 10, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afb75ea498819089c79e63052e9696 completed March 10, 2026, 6:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb83ba6dc8190931d691d3e354bd7 completed March 10, 2026, 6:20 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:55 p.m.