Oxford Dictionaries American English corpus
E537770
The Oxford Dictionaries American English corpus is a large, curated collection of contemporary American English texts used to analyze usage and inform the content of Oxford’s American English dictionaries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oxford Dictionaries American English corpus canonical | 1 |
| Oxford dictionary databases | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5657790 — 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: Oxford Dictionaries American English corpus Context triple: [New Oxford American Dictionary, basedOn, Oxford Dictionaries American English corpus]
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A.
Corpus
Corpus is a common shortened name for Corpus Christi College, one of the historic constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge.
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B.
CORDE corpus
The CORDE corpus is a large historical Spanish language corpus compiled by the Royal Spanish Academy, used for studying the evolution and usage of Spanish over time.
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C.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the authoritative, comprehensive historical dictionary of the English language, widely regarded as the standard reference for definitions, usage, and etymology.
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D.
Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI
Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI is a large, modern reference corpus of contemporary Spanish designed to represent current usage across different regions, genres, and registers.
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E.
Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary
The Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary is a widely used reference work that provides authoritative phonetic transcriptions and pronunciation guidance for English words, particularly reflecting standard British usage.
- 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: Oxford Dictionaries American English corpus Target entity description: The Oxford Dictionaries American English corpus is a large, curated collection of contemporary American English texts used to analyze usage and inform the content of Oxford’s American English dictionaries.
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A.
Corpus
Corpus is a common shortened name for Corpus Christi College, one of the historic constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge.
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B.
CORDE corpus
The CORDE corpus is a large historical Spanish language corpus compiled by the Royal Spanish Academy, used for studying the evolution and usage of Spanish over time.
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C.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the authoritative, comprehensive historical dictionary of the English language, widely regarded as the standard reference for definitions, usage, and etymology.
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D.
Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI
Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI is a large, modern reference corpus of contemporary Spanish designed to represent current usage across different regions, genres, and registers.
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E.
Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary
The Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary is a widely used reference work that provides authoritative phonetic transcriptions and pronunciation guidance for English words, particularly reflecting standard British usage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American English corpus
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linguistic resource ⓘ text corpus ⓘ |
| basisFor |
Oxford American English dictionaries
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linked to:
New Oxford American Dictionary
Oxford online American English dictionary content ⓘ |
| characteristic |
contemporary-focused
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evidence-based ⓘ large-scale ⓘ usage-driven ⓘ |
| curation |
curated selection of texts
ⓘ
quality-controlled data ⓘ |
| dataSource |
books
ⓘ
magazines ⓘ newspapers ⓘ other contemporary written sources ⓘ websites ⓘ |
| dataType | written texts ⓘ |
| language | American English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Oxford Dictionaries
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linked to:
Oxford Dictionary of English
Oxford University Press ⓘ |
| methodology | corpus linguistics ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
dictionary compilation
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lexicographic research ⓘ usage analysis ⓘ |
| region |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| scope |
contemporary language
ⓘ
modern usage ⓘ |
| usedFor |
analyzing contemporary American English usage
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collocation analysis ⓘ corpus-based style guidance ⓘ corpus-driven language teaching materials ⓘ diachronic comparison with earlier corpora ⓘ evidence-based lexicography ⓘ example sentence selection ⓘ frequency band assignment in dictionaries ⓘ genre analysis ⓘ grammar pattern analysis ⓘ identifying obsolete or rare usages ⓘ identifying regional variation in American English ⓘ informing Oxford American English dictionary entries ⓘ lexical productivity studies ⓘ monitoring language change ⓘ monitoring loanwords in American English ⓘ multiword expression analysis ⓘ phraseology research ⓘ register analysis ⓘ register-specific vocabulary analysis ⓘ semantic prosody analysis ⓘ sense disambiguation in lexicography ⓘ spelling variant analysis ⓘ spoken vs written usage comparison ⓘ studying frequency of words and phrases ⓘ terminology research ⓘ tracking neologisms ⓘ updating definitions ⓘ word origin evidence collection ⓘ |
| varietyOf | English language ⓘ |
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: Oxford Dictionaries American English corpus Description of subject: The Oxford Dictionaries American English corpus is a large, curated collection of contemporary American English texts used to analyze usage and inform the content of Oxford’s American English dictionaries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.