Triple

T4322374
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject California Penutian languages E96547 entity
Predicate studiedBy P1945 FINISHED
Object linguist Roland B. Dixon
Roland B. Dixon was an American anthropologist and linguist known for his influential work on Native American languages and cultures, particularly in California.
 E432295 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 Roland B. Dixon | Statement: [California Penutian languages, studiedBy, linguist Roland B. Dixon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: linguist Roland B. Dixon
Context triple: [California Penutian languages, studiedBy, linguist Roland B. Dixon]
  • A. linguist D. L. R. Lorimer
    D. L. R. Lorimer was a British linguist and philologist known for his pioneering descriptive and comparative work on lesser-studied languages of the Indian subcontinent and surrounding regions.
  • B. linguist Gordon M. Day
    Gordon M. Day was a linguist and ethnographer known for his extensive documentation and preservation of the Western Abenaki language and culture.
  • C. linguist Lionel Bender
    Lionel Bender was an American linguist renowned for his work on African languages, particularly in the classification and description of Nilo-Saharan and related language families.
  • D. 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.
  • E. linguist William Bright
    William Bright was an influential American linguist and anthropologist known for his extensive work on Native American languages and sociolinguistics.
  • 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 Roland B. Dixon
Triple: [California Penutian languages, studiedBy, linguist Roland B. Dixon]
Generated description
Roland B. Dixon was an American anthropologist and linguist known for his influential work on Native American languages and cultures, particularly in California.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: linguist Roland B. Dixon
Target entity description: Roland B. Dixon was an American anthropologist and linguist known for his influential work on Native American languages and cultures, particularly in California.
  • A. linguist D. L. R. Lorimer
    D. L. R. Lorimer was a British linguist and philologist known for his pioneering descriptive and comparative work on lesser-studied languages of the Indian subcontinent and surrounding regions.
  • B. linguist Gordon M. Day
    Gordon M. Day was a linguist and ethnographer known for his extensive documentation and preservation of the Western Abenaki language and culture.
  • C. linguist Lionel Bender
    Lionel Bender was an American linguist renowned for his work on African languages, particularly in the classification and description of Nilo-Saharan and related language families.
  • D. 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.
  • E. linguist William Bright
    William Bright was an influential American linguist and anthropologist known for his extensive work on Native American languages and sociolinguistics.
  • 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_69b345422aac81909ddbadae437d122e completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b351177eb88190b89fa49a88add5e8 completed March 12, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5d09165a8819089fbb9b9ed4c82ff completed March 14, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5d4607a688190a3a7352579ea5ee7 completed March 14, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5d51068dc819099ac28361188dcc4 completed March 14, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:12 p.m.