binding
E67049
Binding is a central concept in generative syntax that explains how pronouns and other noun phrases can or cannot refer to each other within sentence structure.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Binding Theory | 2 |
| Binding Principle A | 1 |
| Binding Principle B | 1 |
| binding canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T537064 — 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: binding Context triple: [Lectures on Government and Binding, coreConcept, binding]
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A.
Westbindung
Westbindung was the postwar West German strategy of firmly integrating the country into Western political, economic, and military alliances, especially with the United States and Western Europe.
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B.
BEL
BEL is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code that uniquely identifies Belgium in international standards and data systems.
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C.
BAL
BAL is the Amtrak station code for Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore, Maryland, a major rail hub in the city’s transportation network.
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D.
BIE
BIE is a U.S. federal agency within the Department of the Interior responsible for providing and overseeing education services for Native American students in schools on or near reservations.
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E.
containment
Containment was the Cold War U.S. strategy aimed at preventing the expansion of Soviet influence and communism worldwide.
- 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: binding Target entity description: Binding is a central concept in generative syntax that explains how pronouns and other noun phrases can or cannot refer to each other within sentence structure.
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A.
Westbindung
Westbindung was the postwar West German strategy of firmly integrating the country into Western political, economic, and military alliances, especially with the United States and Western Europe.
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B.
BEL
BEL is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code that uniquely identifies Belgium in international standards and data systems.
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C.
BAL
BAL is the Amtrak station code for Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore, Maryland, a major rail hub in the city’s transportation network.
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D.
BIE
BIE is a U.S. federal agency within the Department of the Interior responsible for providing and overseeing education services for Native American students in schools on or near reservations.
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E.
containment
Containment was the Cold War U.S. strategy aimed at preventing the expansion of Soviet influence and communism worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
binding principle
ⓘ
binding principle ⓘ binding principle ⓘ concept in generative grammar ⓘ syntactic concept ⓘ theoretical linguistics concept ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
anaphors
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anaphors ⓘ noun phrases ⓘ pronouns ⓘ pronouns ⓘ reciprocal pronouns ⓘ referential expressions ⓘ referential expressions ⓘ reflexive pronouns ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | discourse anaphora theories ⓘ |
| coreIdea |
constrains anaphora and coreference
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explains how noun phrases can or cannot refer to each other ⓘ regulates possible antecedent–pronoun relations ⓘ |
| definedOver |
c-command relations
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locality domains ⓘ syntactic structure ⓘ |
| describedIn | generative grammar ⓘ |
| developedWithin |
Chomskyan generative grammar
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linked to:
Chomskyan linguistics
|
| field |
generative syntax
ⓘ
syntax ⓘ |
| forbids | local antecedent ⓘ |
| goal |
capture universal constraints on anaphora
ⓘ
explain cross-linguistic patterns of pronoun reference ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Binding Principle A
ⓘ
linked to:
binding
Binding Principle B ⓘ
linked to:
binding
Binding Principle C ⓘ
linked to:
Subjacency
|
| influenced |
HPSG treatments of binding
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LFG treatments of binding ⓘ Minimalist Program treatments of anaphora ⓘ |
| partOf |
Government and Binding theory
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linked to:
Government and Binding Theory
Principles and Parameters framework ⓘ
linked to:
Principles and Parameters Theory
|
| relatedTo |
c-command (syntax)
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case theory (syntax) ⓘ control theory (syntax) ⓘ movement (syntax) ⓘ |
| requires |
local antecedent
ⓘ
non-local antecedent ⓘ |
| studiedBy | syntacticians ⓘ |
| usesNotion |
antecedent
ⓘ
binding domain ⓘ coindexing ⓘ coreference ⓘ governing category ⓘ indexing ⓘ |
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: binding Description of subject: Binding is a central concept in generative syntax that explains how pronouns and other noun phrases can or cannot refer to each other within sentence structure.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.