Triple
T3382319
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Boasian linguistics |
E71213
|
entity |
| Predicate | keyFigure |
P256
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Edward Sapir |
E12573
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Edward Sapir | Statement: [Boasian linguistics, keyFigure, Edward Sapir]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Sapir Context triple: [Boasian linguistics, keyFigure, Edward Sapir]
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A.
Edward Sapir
chosen
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.
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B.
J. David Sapir
J. David Sapir is an American anthropologist and linguist known for his work on West African languages and cultures and for being the son of renowned linguist Edward Sapir.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
Joseph Greenberg
Joseph Greenberg was an influential American linguist best known for his work on language classification and universals, including proposing major language families such as Nilo-Saharan.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ad85a8fd9c819095ecedf838d2bf1b |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb5e9af608190bfb228ef99a87bb7 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:46 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b33452d79081909bf6955289e0dece |
completed | March 12, 2026, 9:46 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.