Triple

T9025444
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hermann Osthoff E216036 entity
Predicate memberOf P10 FINISHED
Object Neogrammarians
Neogrammarians were a group of late 19th-century linguists who argued that sound change in language is regular and exceptionless, laying the foundations for modern historical linguistics.
E195336 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: Neogrammarians | Statement: [Hermann Osthoff, memberOf, Neogrammarians]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Neogrammarians
Context triple: [Hermann Osthoff, memberOf, Neogrammarians]
  • A. Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws
    The Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws is a linguistic principle asserting that phonetic changes in a language occur regularly and without exceptions under the same conditions, forming the basis for systematic historical-comparative linguistics.
  • B. Verner's law
    Verner's law is a historical linguistic principle explaining a systematic set of consonant alternations in the Germanic languages that refined and expanded upon Grimm's law.
  • C. Grimm's law
    Grimm's law is a fundamental linguistic principle describing the systematic consonant shifts that distinguish the Germanic languages from other Indo-European branches.
  • D. Friedrich Kluge
    Friedrich Kluge was a German philologist and linguist renowned for his work on the history of the German language and etymology, including influential dictionaries and sound laws.
  • E. Morris Swadesh
    Morris Swadesh was an American linguist best known for pioneering lexicostatistics and glottochronology, methods for studying language classification and historical relationships through core vocabulary comparison.
  • 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: Neogrammarians
Triple: [Hermann Osthoff, memberOf, Neogrammarians]
Generated description
Neogrammarians were a group of late 19th-century linguists who argued that sound change in language is regular and exceptionless, laying the foundations for modern historical linguistics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Neogrammarians
Target entity description: Neogrammarians were a group of late 19th-century linguists who argued that sound change in language is regular and exceptionless, laying the foundations for modern historical linguistics.
  • A. Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws chosen
    The Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws is a linguistic principle asserting that phonetic changes in a language occur regularly and without exceptions under the same conditions, forming the basis for systematic historical-comparative linguistics.
  • B. Verner's law
    Verner's law is a historical linguistic principle explaining a systematic set of consonant alternations in the Germanic languages that refined and expanded upon Grimm's law.
  • C. Grimm's law
    Grimm's law is a fundamental linguistic principle describing the systematic consonant shifts that distinguish the Germanic languages from other Indo-European branches.
  • D. Friedrich Kluge
    Friedrich Kluge was a German philologist and linguist renowned for his work on the history of the German language and etymology, including influential dictionaries and sound laws.
  • E. Morris Swadesh
    Morris Swadesh was an American linguist best known for pioneering lexicostatistics and glottochronology, methods for studying language classification and historical relationships through core vocabulary comparison.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca83a5fa88819088144801b4dd7245 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6a7ce71c81908041814dc9ec1713 completed April 1, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfdbbf786081908df45b4e615bbba9 completed April 3, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfdd3117c881908645b6526537571a completed April 3, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfe10917188190b0223b14e7a8ed39 completed April 3, 2026, 3:47 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:07 p.m.