Triple

T390600
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nilo-Saharan languages E8870 entity
Predicate recognizedBy P653 FINISHED
Object Joseph Greenberg
Joseph Greenberg was an influential American linguist best known for his work on language classification and universals, including proposing major language families such as Nilo-Saharan.
 E49682 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: Joseph Greenberg | Statement: [Nilo-Saharan languages, recognizedBy, Joseph Greenberg]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joseph Greenberg
Context triple: [Nilo-Saharan languages, recognizedBy, Joseph Greenberg]
  • A. Edward Sapir
    Edward Sapir was a pioneering American anthropologist-linguist whose work on language, culture, and cognition helped lay the foundations of modern linguistics and linguistic anthropology.
  • B. Zellig Harris
    Zellig Harris was an influential American linguist known for his pioneering work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis, and for mentoring Noam Chomsky.
  • C. Richard Ben-Veniste
    Richard Ben-Veniste is an American lawyer and former Watergate prosecutor who served as a Democratic member of the 9/11 Commission.
  • D. L. L. Zamenhof
    L. L. Zamenhof was a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist and linguist best known for devising the international auxiliary language Esperanto to promote global communication and understanding.
  • E. Benjamin Rapoport
    Benjamin Rapoport is a neurosurgeon and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the brain–computer interface company Neuralink.
  • 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: Joseph Greenberg
Triple: [Nilo-Saharan languages, recognizedBy, Joseph Greenberg]
Generated description
Joseph Greenberg was an influential American linguist best known for his work on language classification and universals, including proposing major language families such as Nilo-Saharan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joseph Greenberg
Target entity description: Joseph Greenberg was an influential American linguist best known for his work on language classification and universals, including proposing major language families such as Nilo-Saharan.
  • A. Edward Sapir
    Edward Sapir was a pioneering American anthropologist-linguist whose work on language, culture, and cognition helped lay the foundations of modern linguistics and linguistic anthropology.
  • B. Zellig Harris
    Zellig Harris was an influential American linguist known for his pioneering work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis, and for mentoring Noam Chomsky.
  • C. Richard Ben-Veniste
    Richard Ben-Veniste is an American lawyer and former Watergate prosecutor who served as a Democratic member of the 9/11 Commission.
  • D. L. L. Zamenhof
    L. L. Zamenhof was a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist and linguist best known for devising the international auxiliary language Esperanto to promote global communication and understanding.
  • E. Benjamin Rapoport
    Benjamin Rapoport is a neurosurgeon and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the brain–computer interface company Neuralink.
  • 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_69a2e7f55c60819097aff65ea2ca2832 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec5d73e881909101308a583c8f13 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a405f576148190b058300c3bd0d032 completed March 1, 2026, 9:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a406cd30a081908f44f1d0e4cd988e completed March 1, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a40724c4488190875e70cb427fff76 completed March 1, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.