Morris Swadesh
E148463
Morris Swadesh was an American linguist best known for pioneering lexicostatistics and glottochronology, methods for studying language classification and historical relationships through core vocabulary comparison.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Morris Swadesh canonical | 7 |
| Maurice Swadesh | 1 |
| documented by linguist Morris Swadesh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1264688 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morris Swadesh Context triple: [Edward Sapir, influenced, Morris Swadesh]
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A.
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
Robert Blust
Robert Blust was an influential American linguist and Austronesian specialist known for his extensive comparative and historical work on the languages of the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
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D.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf was an American linguist best known for the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which proposes that the structure of a language influences its speakers’ cognition and worldview.
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E.
C. K. Ogden
C. K. Ogden was a British linguist, philosopher, and writer best known for his work on the theory of language, including the development of Basic English and influential studies in semantics.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morris Swadesh Target entity description: Morris Swadesh was an American linguist best known for pioneering lexicostatistics and glottochronology, methods for studying language classification and historical relationships through core vocabulary comparison.
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A.
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
Robert Blust
Robert Blust was an influential American linguist and Austronesian specialist known for his extensive comparative and historical work on the languages of the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
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D.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf was an American linguist best known for the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which proposes that the structure of a language influences its speakers’ cognition and worldview.
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E.
C. K. Ogden
C. K. Ogden was a British linguist, philosopher, and writer best known for his work on the theory of language, including the development of Basic English and influential studies in semantics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Morris Swadesh Description of subject: Morris Swadesh was an American linguist best known for pioneering lexicostatistics and glottochronology, methods for studying language classification and historical relationships through core vocabulary comparison.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.