Triple

T4322423
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maiduan languages E96548 entity
Predicate documentedBy P4310 FINISHED
Object linguist William Shipley
William Shipley was an American linguist best known for his extensive work on and preservation of Native Californian languages, particularly the Maidu language.
 E432297 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 William Shipley | Statement: [Maiduan languages, documentedBy, linguist William Shipley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: linguist William Shipley
Context triple: [Maiduan languages, documentedBy, linguist William Shipley]
  • 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 William Bright
    William Bright was an influential American linguist and anthropologist known for his extensive work on Native American languages and sociolinguistics.
  • C. 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.
  • D. linguist John Peabody Harrington
    John Peabody Harrington was an American linguist and ethnographer renowned for his exhaustive documentation of Native American languages and cultures in the early 20th century.
  • E. linguist Wick R. Miller
    Wick R. Miller was an American linguist known for his influential work on Native American languages, particularly within the Uto-Aztecan family and its Numic branch.
  • 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 William Shipley
Triple: [Maiduan languages, documentedBy, linguist William Shipley]
Generated description
William Shipley was an American linguist best known for his extensive work on and preservation of Native Californian languages, particularly the Maidu language.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: linguist William Shipley
Target entity description: William Shipley was an American linguist best known for his extensive work on and preservation of Native Californian languages, particularly the Maidu language.
  • 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 William Bright
    William Bright was an influential American linguist and anthropologist known for his extensive work on Native American languages and sociolinguistics.
  • C. 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.
  • D. linguist John Peabody Harrington
    John Peabody Harrington was an American linguist and ethnographer renowned for his exhaustive documentation of Native American languages and cultures in the early 20th century.
  • E. linguist Wick R. Miller
    Wick R. Miller was an American linguist known for his influential work on Native American languages, particularly within the Uto-Aztecan family and its Numic branch.
  • 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.