Triple

T147616
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Normans E3365 entity
Predicate language P15 FINISHED
Object 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.
E17608 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: Old French | Statement: [Normans, language, Old French]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Old French
Context triple: [Normans, language, Old French]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Niçard Occitan
    Niçard Occitan is a Romance variety of the Occitan language traditionally spoken in and around the city of Nice in southeastern France.
  • 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. Occitan
    Occitan is a Romance language historically spoken in southern France and neighboring regions, known for its rich medieval literary tradition and close relation to Catalan.
  • E. Middle English
    Middle English is the historical stage of the English language spoken and written roughly between the late 11th and late 15th centuries, exemplified by works like Chaucer’s "Canterbury Tales."
  • 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: Old French
Triple: [Normans, language, Old French]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Old French
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Niçard Occitan
    Niçard Occitan is a Romance variety of the Occitan language traditionally spoken in and around the city of Nice in southeastern France.
  • 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. Occitan
    Occitan is a Romance language historically spoken in southern France and neighboring regions, known for its rich medieval literary tradition and close relation to Catalan.
  • E. Middle English
    Middle English is the historical stage of the English language spoken and written roughly between the late 11th and late 15th centuries, exemplified by works like Chaucer’s "Canterbury Tales."
  • 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_69a252868de4819080e21c9938bfe8b6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:27 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a257eba6188190a3cf99c91bf3038f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2c27754a881908ef5a96e05e515e3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2c37177348190857d52872e6ab393 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2c3c512f08190bb87f874524b1616 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:30 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.