Triple

T537070
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lectures on Government and Binding E12348 entity
Predicate coreConcept P533 FINISHED
Object Empty Category Principle
The Empty Category Principle is a key syntactic constraint in generative grammar that regulates the distribution and licensing of unpronounced (empty) elements in sentence structure.
E67051 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: Empty Category Principle | Statement: [Lectures on Government and Binding, coreConcept, Empty Category Principle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Empty Category Principle
Context triple: [Lectures on Government and Binding, coreConcept, Empty Category Principle]
  • A. Nonantum
    Nonantum is a village in Newton, Massachusetts, known for its dense residential character, historic Italian-American community, and proximity to the Charles River.
  • B. Almost Doesn't Count
    "Almost Doesn't Count" is an R&B ballad by American singer Brandy, released in 1999 and known for its soulful vocals and themes of an unfulfilled relationship.
  • C. No Strings
    No Strings is a 1962 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers, notable for being his first show without longtime collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II and for its jazz-influenced score.
  • D. Occam's razor
    Occam's razor is a philosophical and scientific principle that advises preferring the simplest explanation that adequately accounts for all observed facts.
  • E. On Contradiction
    "On Contradiction" is a 1937 philosophical essay by Mao Zedong that systematically applies and develops Marxist dialectical materialism to analyze the nature and role of contradictions in social and historical processes.
  • 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: Empty Category Principle
Triple: [Lectures on Government and Binding, coreConcept, Empty Category Principle]
Generated description
The Empty Category Principle is a key syntactic constraint in generative grammar that regulates the distribution and licensing of unpronounced (empty) elements in sentence structure.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Empty Category Principle
Target entity description: The Empty Category Principle is a key syntactic constraint in generative grammar that regulates the distribution and licensing of unpronounced (empty) elements in sentence structure.
  • A. Nonantum
    Nonantum is a village in Newton, Massachusetts, known for its dense residential character, historic Italian-American community, and proximity to the Charles River.
  • B. Almost Doesn't Count
    "Almost Doesn't Count" is an R&B ballad by American singer Brandy, released in 1999 and known for its soulful vocals and themes of an unfulfilled relationship.
  • C. No Strings
    No Strings is a 1962 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers, notable for being his first show without longtime collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II and for its jazz-influenced score.
  • D. Occam's razor
    Occam's razor is a philosophical and scientific principle that advises preferring the simplest explanation that adequately accounts for all observed facts.
  • E. On Contradiction
    "On Contradiction" is a 1937 philosophical essay by Mao Zedong that systematically applies and develops Marxist dialectical materialism to analyze the nature and role of contradictions in social and historical processes.
  • 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_69a4933208e88190891f5debab1b776d completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a496da8e108190b4874c3b85290464 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4c03256a08190955f8e8d5cda4b08 completed March 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4c0d028c48190885a764277f9d28b completed March 1, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4c196fa948190b14aacba1276d353 completed March 1, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.