Triple

T5666436
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wilhelm Bleek E124867 entity
Predicate studiedLanguage P741 FINISHED
Object San languages
San languages are a group of indigenous Southern African languages, many featuring distinctive click consonants, spoken by the San (Bushmen) peoples.
 E538822 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: San languages | Statement: [Wilhelm Bleek, studiedLanguage, San languages]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: San languages
Context triple: [Wilhelm Bleek, studiedLanguage, San languages]
  • A. Tucanoan languages
    The Tucanoan languages are a family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in the northwestern Amazon Basin of Colombia, Brazil, and Peru, known for complex evidentiality systems and extensive multilingualism among their speakers.
  • B. Jivaroan languages
    Jivaroan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken in the Amazonian regions of Ecuador and Peru, known for their complex verbal morphology and association with groups such as the Shuar.
  • C. Malaita–San Cristobal languages
    The Malaita–San Cristobal languages are a subgroup of Oceanic languages spoken primarily on Malaita and Makira (San Cristobal) in the Solomon Islands, known for their shared phonological and grammatical features within the Southeast Solomonic branch.
  • D. Kurumba languages
    The Kurumba languages are a group of closely related Dravidian tribal languages spoken primarily by the Kurumba people in parts of southern India, especially in the Nilgiri and surrounding hill regions.
  • E. Barbacoan languages
    The Barbacoan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in Colombia and Ecuador, known for their complex phonology and close association with the Andean and northwestern South American cultural area.
  • 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: San languages
Triple: [Wilhelm Bleek, studiedLanguage, San languages]
Generated description
San languages are a group of indigenous Southern African languages, many featuring distinctive click consonants, spoken by the San (Bushmen) peoples.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: San languages
Target entity description: San languages are a group of indigenous Southern African languages, many featuring distinctive click consonants, spoken by the San (Bushmen) peoples.
  • A. Tucanoan languages
    The Tucanoan languages are a family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in the northwestern Amazon Basin of Colombia, Brazil, and Peru, known for complex evidentiality systems and extensive multilingualism among their speakers.
  • B. Jivaroan languages
    Jivaroan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken in the Amazonian regions of Ecuador and Peru, known for their complex verbal morphology and association with groups such as the Shuar.
  • C. Malaita–San Cristobal languages
    The Malaita–San Cristobal languages are a subgroup of Oceanic languages spoken primarily on Malaita and Makira (San Cristobal) in the Solomon Islands, known for their shared phonological and grammatical features within the Southeast Solomonic branch.
  • D. Kurumba languages
    The Kurumba languages are a group of closely related Dravidian tribal languages spoken primarily by the Kurumba people in parts of southern India, especially in the Nilgiri and surrounding hill regions.
  • E. Barbacoan languages
    The Barbacoan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in Colombia and Ecuador, known for their complex phonology and close association with the Andean and northwestern South American cultural area.
  • 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_69c00828906881908966f270b8f130cf completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02345004081908858867be48d3885 completed March 22, 2026, 5:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04dad0af4819088280f2d97173e9e completed March 22, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c056a981f881908663c315fe2db829 completed March 22, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0573ca734819098de3376ff93c309 completed March 22, 2026, 8:55 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:43 p.m.