Triple

T480075
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Vowel Shift (late phase) E9147 entity
Predicate precondition P14814 FINISHED
Object Great Vowel Shift (early phase)
The Great Vowel Shift (early phase) is the initial stage of the major historical change in English pronunciation during which several long vowels began shifting upward in tongue position, setting off the chain of sound changes that transformed Middle English into Early Modern English.
E60332 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Great Vowel Shift (early phase) | Statement: [Great Vowel Shift (late phase), precondition, Great Vowel Shift (early phase)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Vowel Shift (early phase)
Context triple: [Great Vowel Shift (late phase), precondition, Great Vowel Shift (early phase)]
  • A. Great Vowel Shift (late phase)
    The Great Vowel Shift (late phase) was the final stage of a major historical change in English pronunciation during which many long vowel sounds in Middle English moved closer to their modern English values.
  • B. Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
    Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law is a historical sound change in early Germanic languages that caused the loss of nasal consonants before fricatives, leaving characteristic vowel changes in Anglo-Frisian and related dialects.
  • C. Early Modern English
    Early Modern English is the stage of the English language used roughly between the late 15th and early 17th centuries, exemplified by the works of Shakespeare and the language of the King James Bible.
  • D. English Renaissance
    The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England, roughly spanning the late 15th to early 17th centuries, marked by a flowering of literature, drama, and humanist thought exemplified by figures like William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
  • E. Elizabethan era (second Elizabethan age)
    The Elizabethan era (second Elizabethan age) refers to the period of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign, marked by rapid social change, decolonization, and the transformation of the United Kingdom into a modern, post-imperial state.
  • 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: Great Vowel Shift (early phase)
Triple: [Great Vowel Shift (late phase), precondition, Great Vowel Shift (early phase)]
Generated description
The Great Vowel Shift (early phase) is the initial stage of the major historical change in English pronunciation during which several long vowels began shifting upward in tongue position, setting off the chain of sound changes that transformed Middle English into Early Modern English.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Vowel Shift (early phase)
Target entity description: The Great Vowel Shift (early phase) is the initial stage of the major historical change in English pronunciation during which several long vowels began shifting upward in tongue position, setting off the chain of sound changes that transformed Middle English into Early Modern English.
  • A. Great Vowel Shift (late phase)
    The Great Vowel Shift (late phase) was the final stage of a major historical change in English pronunciation during which many long vowel sounds in Middle English moved closer to their modern English values.
  • B. Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
    Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law is a historical sound change in early Germanic languages that caused the loss of nasal consonants before fricatives, leaving characteristic vowel changes in Anglo-Frisian and related dialects.
  • C. Early Modern English
    Early Modern English is the stage of the English language used roughly between the late 15th and early 17th centuries, exemplified by the works of Shakespeare and the language of the King James Bible.
  • D. English Renaissance
    The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England, roughly spanning the late 15th to early 17th centuries, marked by a flowering of literature, drama, and humanist thought exemplified by figures like William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
  • E. Elizabethan era (second Elizabethan age)
    The Elizabethan era (second Elizabethan age) refers to the period of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign, marked by rapid social change, decolonization, and the transformation of the United Kingdom into a modern, post-imperial state.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: precondition
Context triple: [Great Vowel Shift (late phase), precondition, Great Vowel Shift (early phase)]
  • A. pretext
    Indicates that one party uses a stated reason or excuse to conceal their true motive for an action or decision.
  • B. preparesFor
    Indicates that one entity is used, designed, or undertaken in order to get another entity ready for a future event, state, or activity.
  • C. prelate
    Indicates that an entity holds the office or role of a high-ranking clergy member within a religious hierarchy.
  • D. prevented
    Indicates that one entity stopped, hindered, or made it impossible for another entity or event to occur or proceed.
  • E. predecessor
    Indicates that one entity comes before another in an ordered sequence or succession.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69a2e7ff81708190b0507a24a997232c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f057c4ac819080cf43ffaa56c350 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4711cd9ac8190bc95a6560950525b completed March 1, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a47180628c8190b801210ec5edf071 completed March 1, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4721291a08190bc0b6f3aaadf8b71 completed March 1, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a2edf1d5848190a7da27e2fddc136f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69a2ef4030608190b39852b347a505ca completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.