Triple

T5540308
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dell Hymes E145271 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Dell Hathaway Hymes
Dell Hathaway Hymes was an influential American linguist, anthropologist, and folklorist best known for founding the field of ethnography of communication and advancing sociolinguistics.
E530439 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: Dell Hathaway Hymes | Statement: [Dell Hymes, name, Dell Hathaway Hymes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dell Hathaway Hymes
Context triple: [Dell Hymes, name, Dell Hathaway Hymes]
  • A. John C. Wells
    John C. Wells is a prominent British phonetician and phonologist known for his influential work on English accents and pronunciation, including his analyses of BBC English.
  • B. Charles Osgood
    Charles Osgood is an American radio and television commentator best known as the longtime host of CBS News Sunday Morning.
  • C. Andreas Whittam Smith
    Andreas Whittam Smith is a British journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founding editor of the UK national newspaper The Independent.
  • D. Joseph Williams
    Joseph Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and composer best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Toto and the son of famed film composer John Williams.
  • E. David LeFevre Dodd
    David LeFevre Dodd was an American economist and Columbia University professor best known for co-authoring the seminal value investing text "Security Analysis" with Benjamin Graham.
  • 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: Dell Hathaway Hymes
Triple: [Dell Hymes, name, Dell Hathaway Hymes]
Generated description
Dell Hathaway Hymes was an influential American linguist, anthropologist, and folklorist best known for founding the field of ethnography of communication and advancing sociolinguistics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dell Hathaway Hymes
Target entity description: Dell Hathaway Hymes was an influential American linguist, anthropologist, and folklorist best known for founding the field of ethnography of communication and advancing sociolinguistics.
  • A. John C. Wells
    John C. Wells is a prominent British phonetician and phonologist known for his influential work on English accents and pronunciation, including his analyses of BBC English.
  • B. Charles Osgood
    Charles Osgood is an American radio and television commentator best known as the longtime host of CBS News Sunday Morning.
  • C. Andreas Whittam Smith
    Andreas Whittam Smith is a British journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founding editor of the UK national newspaper The Independent.
  • D. Joseph Williams
    Joseph Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and composer best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Toto and the son of famed film composer John Williams.
  • E. David LeFevre Dodd
    David LeFevre Dodd was an American economist and Columbia University professor best known for co-authoring the seminal value investing text "Security Analysis" with Benjamin Graham.
  • 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_69c008fa64888190adae56c8f9ea4031 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01fb487648190948493fe96cec0ff completed March 22, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0281bfcc48190a0e4e51b4dca5a4b completed March 22, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0362dc2648190b1cb81d6aa3050da completed March 22, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c036adf9ac8190aed5688d67e52304 completed March 22, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:35 p.m.