Triple

T2356935
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tai–Kadai languages E47577 entity
Predicate languageBranchOf P1967 FINISHED
Object Austro-Tai hypothesis
The Austro-Tai hypothesis is a proposed macro-family in historical linguistics that suggests a genetic relationship between the Tai–Kadai languages and the Austronesian language family.
E257941 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: Austro-Tai hypothesis | Statement: [Tai–Kadai languages, languageBranchOf, Austro-Tai hypothesis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Austro-Tai hypothesis
Context triple: [Tai–Kadai languages, languageBranchOf, Austro-Tai hypothesis]
  • A. Proto-Austroasiatic
    Proto-Austroasiatic is the hypothesized common ancestor language from which all modern Austroasiatic languages, such as Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon, are believed to have descended.
  • B. Altaic languages (proposed)
    Altaic languages (proposed) is a controversial hypothetical language family that groups together Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and sometimes Koreanic and Japonic languages, primarily spoken across northern and central Asia.
  • C. Kurgan hypothesis
    The Kurgan hypothesis is a leading theory that locates the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic–Caspian steppe and explains the spread of Indo-European languages through the expansion of early steppe pastoralist cultures.
  • D. Austronesian alignment
    Austronesian alignment is a morphosyntactic alignment system, common in many Philippine and related languages, where verbal voice and focus mark different core arguments in ways that do not fit neatly into standard nominative–accusative or ergative–absolutive patterns.
  • E. Transeurasian languages
    Transeurasian languages are a proposed macro-family of languages stretching from Eastern Europe across Siberia to East Asia, hypothesized to include Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic.
  • 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: Austro-Tai hypothesis
Triple: [Tai–Kadai languages, languageBranchOf, Austro-Tai hypothesis]
Generated description
The Austro-Tai hypothesis is a proposed macro-family in historical linguistics that suggests a genetic relationship between the Tai–Kadai languages and the Austronesian language family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Austro-Tai hypothesis
Target entity description: The Austro-Tai hypothesis is a proposed macro-family in historical linguistics that suggests a genetic relationship between the Tai–Kadai languages and the Austronesian language family.
  • A. Proto-Austroasiatic
    Proto-Austroasiatic is the hypothesized common ancestor language from which all modern Austroasiatic languages, such as Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon, are believed to have descended.
  • B. Altaic languages (proposed)
    Altaic languages (proposed) is a controversial hypothetical language family that groups together Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and sometimes Koreanic and Japonic languages, primarily spoken across northern and central Asia.
  • C. Kurgan hypothesis
    The Kurgan hypothesis is a leading theory that locates the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic–Caspian steppe and explains the spread of Indo-European languages through the expansion of early steppe pastoralist cultures.
  • D. Austronesian alignment
    Austronesian alignment is a morphosyntactic alignment system, common in many Philippine and related languages, where verbal voice and focus mark different core arguments in ways that do not fit neatly into standard nominative–accusative or ergative–absolutive patterns.
  • E. Transeurasian languages
    Transeurasian languages are a proposed macro-family of languages stretching from Eastern Europe across Siberia to East Asia, hypothesized to include Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic.
  • 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_69a88a1b678c8190bce986922ba60ce0 completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc71e0c68819082eebd80721abcc1 completed March 7, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae9638ef948190adf945aba42fac76 completed March 9, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae96fc0b508190b1da6aa41cddc488 completed March 9, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae977e539c81909cef638cc61e5ec1 completed March 9, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:54 p.m.