Triple

T12962580
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Labov E321180 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Social Stratification of English in New York City
The Social Stratification of English in New York City is a landmark sociolinguistic study by William Labov that analyzes how social class and context shape patterns of English pronunciation in New York City.
E1013147 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: The Social Stratification of English in New York City | Statement: [William Labov, notableWork, The Social Stratification of English in New York City]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Social Stratification of English in New York City
Context triple: [William Labov, notableWork, The Social Stratification of English in New York City]
  • A. Social Varieties of American English
    Social Varieties of American English is a sociolinguistic work that examines how factors like region, class, ethnicity, and gender shape the diverse forms of English spoken in the United States.
  • B. Atlas of North American English
    The Atlas of North American English is a comprehensive linguistic survey that maps and analyzes regional variation in pronunciation and vowel shifts across contemporary North American English.
  • C. The Development of African American English
    "The Development of African American English" is a scholarly work that examines the historical origins, structural features, and sociolinguistic evolution of African American English.
  • D. Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach
    Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach is a seminal work that established the ethnography of communication as a central method for studying language use in its social and cultural contexts.
  • E. Language and the Analysis of Social Laws
    "Language and the Analysis of Social Laws" is an essay by Claude Lévi-Strauss that explores how linguistic structures can illuminate the underlying rules and patterns governing social life.
  • 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: The Social Stratification of English in New York City
Triple: [William Labov, notableWork, The Social Stratification of English in New York City]
Generated description
The Social Stratification of English in New York City is a landmark sociolinguistic study by William Labov that analyzes how social class and context shape patterns of English pronunciation in New York City.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Social Stratification of English in New York City
Target entity description: The Social Stratification of English in New York City is a landmark sociolinguistic study by William Labov that analyzes how social class and context shape patterns of English pronunciation in New York City.
  • A. Social Varieties of American English
    Social Varieties of American English is a sociolinguistic work that examines how factors like region, class, ethnicity, and gender shape the diverse forms of English spoken in the United States.
  • B. Atlas of North American English
    The Atlas of North American English is a comprehensive linguistic survey that maps and analyzes regional variation in pronunciation and vowel shifts across contemporary North American English.
  • C. The Development of African American English
    "The Development of African American English" is a scholarly work that examines the historical origins, structural features, and sociolinguistic evolution of African American English.
  • D. Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach
    Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach is a seminal work that established the ethnography of communication as a central method for studying language use in its social and cultural contexts.
  • E. Language and the Analysis of Social Laws
    "Language and the Analysis of Social Laws" is an essay by Claude Lévi-Strauss that explores how linguistic structures can illuminate the underlying rules and patterns governing social life.
  • 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_69d80763bd6c819094437da5b20b01d2 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e2f5e448190b56e74602c43358d completed April 10, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6b8e006cc819091e5f4b044cadea4 completed May 3, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b9dac2c88190850304023f156969 completed May 3, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6bb337b708190a874cec01d588236 completed May 3, 2026, 3:04 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:23 p.m.