Triple

T5680372
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Modern English E125183 entity
Predicate hasPhonologicalEvent P9128 FINISHED
Object Great Vowel Shift
The Great Vowel Shift was a major historical change in the pronunciation of long vowels in English, occurring mainly between the 15th and 18th centuries and helping to create the mismatch between English spelling and pronunciation seen today.
E540972 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 | Statement: [Modern English, hasPhonologicalEvent, Great Vowel Shift]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Vowel Shift
Context triple: [Modern English, hasPhonologicalEvent, Great Vowel Shift]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. The Elizabethan
    The Elizabethan was a prestigious named express passenger train that operated between London and Edinburgh during the mid-20th century, symbolizing the speed and elegance of British rail travel in the early Elizabethan era.
  • D. Middle English vowel system
    The Middle English vowel system was the set of long and short vowel sounds used in English between roughly the 12th and 15th centuries, whose structure and qualities were dramatically reorganized during the Great Vowel Shift.
  • E. 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.
  • 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
Triple: [Modern English, hasPhonologicalEvent, Great Vowel Shift]
Generated description
The Great Vowel Shift was a major historical change in the pronunciation of long vowels in English, occurring mainly between the 15th and 18th centuries and helping to create the mismatch between English spelling and pronunciation seen today.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Vowel Shift
Target entity description: The Great Vowel Shift was a major historical change in the pronunciation of long vowels in English, occurring mainly between the 15th and 18th centuries and helping to create the mismatch between English spelling and pronunciation seen today.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. The Elizabethan
    The Elizabethan was a prestigious named express passenger train that operated between London and Edinburgh during the mid-20th century, symbolizing the speed and elegance of British rail travel in the early Elizabethan era.
  • D. Middle English vowel system
    The Middle English vowel system was the set of long and short vowel sounds used in English between roughly the 12th and 15th centuries, whose structure and qualities were dramatically reorganized during the Great Vowel Shift.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasPhonologicalEvent
Context triple: [Modern English, hasPhonologicalEvent, Great Vowel Shift]
  • A. hasPhonologicalChange chosen
    Indicates a relationship where one linguistic form undergoes a change in its sound structure relative to another form or earlier state.
  • B. hasPhonologicalType
    Indicates that one entity is characterized by or classified as having a particular phonological type (e.g., in terms of sound structure or phonological category).
  • C. hasPhoneme
    Indicates that a linguistic unit (such as a word or morpheme) contains or includes a particular phoneme as part of its sound structure.
  • D. hasPhonologicalParameters
    Indicates that an entity is associated with specific phonological features or parameters that characterize its sound structure.
  • E. hasPhonologicalBasisFor
    Indicates that one entity serves as the phonological source, motivation, or foundation for another entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69c0082a884c8190a79001bae658941f completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0248751bc8190b12aaa42d1ef17e3 completed March 22, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a35dd9c8190acd2ee8e94f309a6 completed March 22, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05c471c3081909e5bf44f47388a7c completed March 22, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c05cda809c81908219947cf06c381a completed March 22, 2026, 9:19 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c021be59088190a81c880957f666ab completed March 22, 2026, 5:07 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:44 p.m.