Triple

T21499121
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sound Shape of Language E530431 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Linda R. Waugh
Linda R. Waugh is a linguist and scholar known for her work on phonology, semiotics, and the relationship between sound and meaning in language.
 E1498187 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: Linda R. Waugh | Statement: [The Sound Shape of Language, author, Linda R. Waugh]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Linda R. Waugh
Context triple: [The Sound Shape of Language, author, Linda R. Waugh]
  • A. Kaye V. Dowling
    Kaye V. Dowling was the wife of American film, radio, and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
  • B. Linda R. Gaddy
    Linda R. Gaddy was the wife of Theodore G. Bilbo, a controversial early 20th-century Mississippi politician and segregationist who served as both governor and U.S. senator.
  • C. Diane W. Nelson
    Diane W. Nelson is known primarily as the daughter of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, the pioneering comic book publisher who founded the company that would become DC Comics.
  • D. Joan E. Chapman
    Joan E. Chapman is a film editor known for her work on the action movie "First Blood."
  • E. Barbara M. Rolph
    Barbara M. Rolph was the woman who sponsored the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38) at its launching ceremony.
  • 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: Linda R. Waugh
Triple: [The Sound Shape of Language, author, Linda R. Waugh]
Generated description
Linda R. Waugh is a linguist and scholar known for her work on phonology, semiotics, and the relationship between sound and meaning in language.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Linda R. Waugh
Target entity description: Linda R. Waugh is a linguist and scholar known for her work on phonology, semiotics, and the relationship between sound and meaning in language.
  • A. Kaye V. Dowling
    Kaye V. Dowling was the wife of American film, radio, and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
  • B. Linda R. Gaddy
    Linda R. Gaddy was the wife of Theodore G. Bilbo, a controversial early 20th-century Mississippi politician and segregationist who served as both governor and U.S. senator.
  • C. Diane W. Nelson
    Diane W. Nelson is known primarily as the daughter of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, the pioneering comic book publisher who founded the company that would become DC Comics.
  • D. Joan E. Chapman
    Joan E. Chapman is a film editor known for her work on the action movie "First Blood."
  • E. Barbara M. Rolph
    Barbara M. Rolph was the woman who sponsored the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38) at its launching ceremony.
  • 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_69e0c45bd15481909fba5910765cdda2 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e9ea5a1c6481909410a1164d86a344 completed April 23, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a24990c548190b8d4125b896683ff completed May 17, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a25e3f88c8190b9e45419c281f781 completed May 17, 2026, 8:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a26ad254081908be75936046e23ca completed May 17, 2026, 8:35 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:24 p.m.