Triple

T2731943
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Vowel Shift (early phase) E60332 entity
Predicate relatedConcept P37 FINISHED
Object Middle English vowel system
The Middle English vowel system was the set of long and short vowel sounds used in English between roughly the 12th and 15th centuries, whose structure and qualities were dramatically reorganized during the Great Vowel Shift.
E292592 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: Middle English vowel system | Statement: [Great Vowel Shift (early phase), relatedConcept, Middle English vowel system]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Middle English vowel system
Context triple: [Great Vowel Shift (early phase), relatedConcept, Middle English vowel system]
  • A. Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
    Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law is a historical sound change in early Germanic languages that caused the loss of nasal consonants before fricatives, leaving characteristic vowel changes in Anglo-Frisian and related dialects.
  • B. Old Norse phonology
    Old Norse phonology is the sound system of the Old Norse language, characterized by a rich set of vowels, consonant clusters, and distinctive prosodic features that influenced the phonologies of modern North Germanic languages.
  • C. High German consonant shift
    The High German consonant shift was a major sound change in early Germanic dialects that transformed the consonant system and helped distinguish High German (and related varieties like Lombardic) from other West Germanic languages.
  • D. The Sound Pattern of English
    The Sound Pattern of English is a foundational 1968 work in generative phonology by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle that systematically analyzes the phonological component of grammar within the framework of transformational-generative linguistics.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Middle English vowel system
Triple: [Great Vowel Shift (early phase), relatedConcept, Middle English vowel system]
Generated description
The Middle English vowel system was the set of long and short vowel sounds used in English between roughly the 12th and 15th centuries, whose structure and qualities were dramatically reorganized during the Great Vowel Shift.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Middle English vowel system
Target entity description: The Middle English vowel system was the set of long and short vowel sounds used in English between roughly the 12th and 15th centuries, whose structure and qualities were dramatically reorganized during the Great Vowel Shift.
  • A. Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
    Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law is a historical sound change in early Germanic languages that caused the loss of nasal consonants before fricatives, leaving characteristic vowel changes in Anglo-Frisian and related dialects.
  • B. Old Norse phonology
    Old Norse phonology is the sound system of the Old Norse language, characterized by a rich set of vowels, consonant clusters, and distinctive prosodic features that influenced the phonologies of modern North Germanic languages.
  • C. High German consonant shift
    The High German consonant shift was a major sound change in early Germanic dialects that transformed the consonant system and helped distinguish High German (and related varieties like Lombardic) from other West Germanic languages.
  • D. The Sound Pattern of English
    The Sound Pattern of English is a foundational 1968 work in generative phonology by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle that systematically analyzes the phonological component of grammar within the framework of transformational-generative linguistics.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ab4b75cd908190b691ef0d1801acda completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdaf011548190beb9c3feee7b743f completed March 7, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afb69eeedc81908ad654de9e1259ea completed March 10, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afb703a5f8819097b71e19db11feaf completed March 10, 2026, 6:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb7acf3588190813bde4428dfe5f4 completed March 10, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:56 p.m.