Linguistic Society of America
E349249
The Linguistic Society of America is a leading professional organization dedicated to the scientific study and promotion of language and linguistics.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3327224 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Linguistic Society of America Context triple: [John R. Rickford, memberOf, Linguistic Society of America]
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A.
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology is a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of language as a cultural and social resource and practice within the broader field of anthropology.
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Centre for Applied Linguistics
The Centre for Applied Linguistics is a research and teaching unit specializing in the study and practical application of language in real-world contexts, such as education, communication, and intercultural interaction.
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C.
Lingva Komitato
Lingva Komitato was an early language committee responsible for overseeing and standardizing the Esperanto language before the establishment of the Akademio de Esperanto.
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International Phonetic Association
The International Phonetic Association is a scholarly organization that develops and promotes the International Phonetic Alphabet and the scientific study of phonetics worldwide.
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E.
North American Academy of the Spanish Language
The North American Academy of the Spanish Language is a U.S.-based institution that promotes, studies, and safeguards the correct use and development of the Spanish language within North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Linguistic Society of America Target entity description: The Linguistic Society of America is a leading professional organization dedicated to the scientific study and promotion of language and linguistics.
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A.
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology is a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of language as a cultural and social resource and practice within the broader field of anthropology.
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B.
Centre for Applied Linguistics
The Centre for Applied Linguistics is a research and teaching unit specializing in the study and practical application of language in real-world contexts, such as education, communication, and intercultural interaction.
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C.
Lingva Komitato
Lingva Komitato was an early language committee responsible for overseeing and standardizing the Esperanto language before the establishment of the Akademio de Esperanto.
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D.
International Phonetic Association
The International Phonetic Association is a scholarly organization that develops and promotes the International Phonetic Alphabet and the scientific study of phonetics worldwide.
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E.
North American Academy of the Spanish Language
The North American Academy of the Spanish Language is a U.S.-based institution that promotes, studies, and safeguards the correct use and development of the Spanish language within North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Linguistic Society of America Description of subject: The Linguistic Society of America is a leading professional organization dedicated to the scientific study and promotion of language and linguistics.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Linguistic Society of America Fellow (uncertain)
Linguistic Society of America
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Linguistic Society of America
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this entity surface form:
Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics
Linguistic Society of America
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Linguistic Society of America
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this entity surface form:
Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics
Linguistic Society of America Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award
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sponsor
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Linguistic Society of America
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Linguistic Society of America Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award
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presentedBy
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Linguistic Society of America
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Linguistic Society of America Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award
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awardingBody
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Linguistic Society of America
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