Triple

T700362
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject French E13984 entity
Predicate ancestor P5206 FINISHED
Object Middle French
Middle French is the historical stage of the French language used roughly between the 14th and 17th centuries, marking the transition from Old French to Modern French.
E87998 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: Middle French | Statement: [French, ancestor, Middle French]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Middle French
Context triple: [French, ancestor, Middle French]
  • A. Old French
    Old French was the medieval Romance language spoken in northern France and surrounding regions, which served as the linguistic ancestor of modern French and significantly influenced English after the Norman Conquest.
  • B. Anglo-Norman
    Anglo-Norman is a variety of Old Norman French that developed in England after the Norman Conquest and served as a key language of the medieval English court, law, and literature.
  • C. French
    French is a Romance language that evolved from Latin and is now spoken worldwide as both a native and official language in many countries.
  • D. Niçard Occitan
    Niçard Occitan is a Romance variety of the Occitan language traditionally spoken in and around the city of Nice in southeastern France.
  • E. Franco-Provençal (Arpitan)
    Franco-Provençal (Arpitan) is a Romance language historically spoken in parts of France, Switzerland, and Italy, distinct from both French and Occitan and now considered endangered.
  • 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: Middle French
Triple: [French, ancestor, Middle French]
Generated description
Middle French is the historical stage of the French language used roughly between the 14th and 17th centuries, marking the transition from Old French to Modern French.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Middle French
Target entity description: Middle French is the historical stage of the French language used roughly between the 14th and 17th centuries, marking the transition from Old French to Modern French.
  • A. Old French
    Old French was the medieval Romance language spoken in northern France and surrounding regions, which served as the linguistic ancestor of modern French and significantly influenced English after the Norman Conquest.
  • B. Anglo-Norman
    Anglo-Norman is a variety of Old Norman French that developed in England after the Norman Conquest and served as a key language of the medieval English court, law, and literature.
  • C. French
    French is a Romance language that evolved from Latin and is now spoken worldwide as both a native and official language in many countries.
  • D. Niçard Occitan
    Niçard Occitan is a Romance variety of the Occitan language traditionally spoken in and around the city of Nice in southeastern France.
  • E. Franco-Provençal (Arpitan)
    Franco-Provençal (Arpitan) is a Romance language historically spoken in parts of France, Switzerland, and Italy, distinct from both French and Occitan and now considered endangered.
  • 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_69a493406c408190957eeec9048a8fb6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a52fdb888190ad0e48fb3cf4dc3d completed March 1, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a64a5618348190b8ec2c7d6bd06e2b completed March 3, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a64ab831308190923f1e95b9311c5a completed March 3, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a64b1ff9548190bcffcc04f2365aaa completed March 3, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.