Triple

T17040982
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michael Tomasello E413444 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Origins of Human Communication
Origins of Human Communication is a scholarly book by Michael Tomasello that explores how human language and communicative abilities evolved from primate social cognition and cooperative behaviors.
E1247511 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: Origins of Human Communication | Statement: [Michael Tomasello, notableWork, Origins of Human Communication]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Origins of Human Communication
Context triple: [Michael Tomasello, notableWork, Origins of Human Communication]
  • A. On the Origin of Language
    On the Origin of Language is a 19th-century work by philologist Hensleigh Wedgwood that explores the origins and development of human speech and linguistic forms.
  • B. Communication and the Evolution of Society
    Communication and the Evolution of Society is a seminal work by Jürgen Habermas that develops his theory of communicative action and explores how language and communication shape social evolution and modern society.
  • C. Language as a Window into Human Nature
    "Language as a Window into Human Nature" is the subtitle of Steven Pinker's book *The Stuff of Thought*, which explores how language reveals the structure of human thought, emotion, and social relationships.
  • D. Toward Ethnographies of Communication
    Toward Ethnographies of Communication is a foundational scholarly work in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics that helped establish the ethnography of communication as a key approach to studying language use in social context.
  • E. Foundations of Language
    Foundations of Language is a major theoretical work by linguist Ray Jackendoff that proposes an integrated, cognitive-science-based account of how linguistic structure relates to meaning, perception, and the mind.
  • 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: Origins of Human Communication
Triple: [Michael Tomasello, notableWork, Origins of Human Communication]
Generated description
Origins of Human Communication is a scholarly book by Michael Tomasello that explores how human language and communicative abilities evolved from primate social cognition and cooperative behaviors.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Origins of Human Communication
Target entity description: Origins of Human Communication is a scholarly book by Michael Tomasello that explores how human language and communicative abilities evolved from primate social cognition and cooperative behaviors.
  • A. On the Origin of Language
    On the Origin of Language is a 19th-century work by philologist Hensleigh Wedgwood that explores the origins and development of human speech and linguistic forms.
  • B. Communication and the Evolution of Society
    Communication and the Evolution of Society is a seminal work by Jürgen Habermas that develops his theory of communicative action and explores how language and communication shape social evolution and modern society.
  • C. Language as a Window into Human Nature
    "Language as a Window into Human Nature" is the subtitle of Steven Pinker's book *The Stuff of Thought*, which explores how language reveals the structure of human thought, emotion, and social relationships.
  • D. Toward Ethnographies of Communication
    Toward Ethnographies of Communication is a foundational scholarly work in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics that helped establish the ethnography of communication as a key approach to studying language use in social context.
  • E. Foundations of Language
    Foundations of Language is a major theoretical work by linguist Ray Jackendoff that proposes an integrated, cognitive-science-based account of how linguistic structure relates to meaning, perception, and the mind.
  • 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_69d886cd18288190b006abab23f811b7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d8f6a0c08190a838279b83b55b72 completed April 18, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a012338a95c8190951db96209edb61a completed May 11, 2026, 12:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01241510048190ae1c459873f8a587 completed May 11, 2026, 12:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0124e389908190b2ee3121be2c9383 completed May 11, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.