Triple

T4588322
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Austronesian peoples E103422 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Austronesian expansion
The Austronesian expansion was a major prehistoric maritime migration in which seafaring peoples from Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia spread across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, settling vast areas from Madagascar to Polynesia and profoundly shaping the linguistic and cultural landscape of these regions.
E455430 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: Austronesian expansion | Statement: [Austronesian peoples, associatedWith, Austronesian expansion]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Austronesian expansion
Context triple: [Austronesian peoples, associatedWith, Austronesian expansion]
  • A. Austronesian peoples
    Austronesian peoples are a widespread ethnolinguistic group originating from Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia whose seafaring descendants settled across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, including Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Madagascar.
  • B. Proto-Austronesian
    Proto-Austronesian is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Austronesian language family, from which languages such as Javanese, Tagalog, and Malay are derived.
  • C. Lapita culture
    The Lapita culture was an ancient Pacific Ocean archaeological culture known for its distinctive dentate-stamped pottery and for being ancestral to many Polynesian and other Oceanic peoples.
  • D. Polynesian outliers
    Polynesian outliers are small, culturally Polynesian communities located on islands outside the main Polynesian Triangle, primarily in Melanesia and Micronesia.
  • E. Austronesian alignment
    Austronesian alignment is a morphosyntactic alignment system, common in many Philippine and related languages, where verbal voice and focus mark different core arguments in ways that do not fit neatly into standard nominative–accusative or ergative–absolutive patterns.
  • 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: Austronesian expansion
Triple: [Austronesian peoples, associatedWith, Austronesian expansion]
Generated description
The Austronesian expansion was a major prehistoric maritime migration in which seafaring peoples from Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia spread across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, settling vast areas from Madagascar to Polynesia and profoundly shaping the linguistic and cultural landscape of these regions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Austronesian expansion
Target entity description: The Austronesian expansion was a major prehistoric maritime migration in which seafaring peoples from Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia spread across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, settling vast areas from Madagascar to Polynesia and profoundly shaping the linguistic and cultural landscape of these regions.
  • A. Austronesian peoples
    Austronesian peoples are a widespread ethnolinguistic group originating from Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia whose seafaring descendants settled across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, including Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Madagascar.
  • B. Proto-Austronesian
    Proto-Austronesian is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Austronesian language family, from which languages such as Javanese, Tagalog, and Malay are derived.
  • C. Lapita culture
    The Lapita culture was an ancient Pacific Ocean archaeological culture known for its distinctive dentate-stamped pottery and for being ancestral to many Polynesian and other Oceanic peoples.
  • D. Polynesian outliers
    Polynesian outliers are small, culturally Polynesian communities located on islands outside the main Polynesian Triangle, primarily in Melanesia and Micronesia.
  • E. Austronesian alignment
    Austronesian alignment is a morphosyntactic alignment system, common in many Philippine and related languages, where verbal voice and focus mark different core arguments in ways that do not fit neatly into standard nominative–accusative or ergative–absolutive patterns.
  • 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_69bd43dccaf08190aa89e9991a289719 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd592115fc8190b1aee1d8bbaf1ee3 completed March 20, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bde0b9f700819082b0e5171132d0f3 completed March 21, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bde31735a481909d005e6c44e2f114 completed March 21, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bde6d185088190b94580f53038d883 completed March 21, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:11 p.m.