Triple

T21907333
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Vowel Shift E540972 entity
Predicate hasAlternativeName P39 FINISHED
Object English Vowel Shift
English Vowel Shift is a major historical change in the pronunciation of long vowels in English that occurred mainly between the 15th and 18th centuries, significantly shaping Modern English pronunciation.
E976158 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: English Vowel Shift | Statement: [Great Vowel Shift, hasAlternativeName, English Vowel Shift]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: English Vowel Shift
Context triple: [Great Vowel Shift, hasAlternativeName, English Vowel Shift]
  • A. Northern Cities Vowel Shift region English
    Northern Cities Vowel Shift region English is a distinctive Midwestern American English variety characterized by a systematic rotation of short vowel sounds, especially in cities around the Great Lakes.
  • B. Vowel Movement
    Vowel Movement is a musical side project associated with Johnette Napolitano, best known as the lead singer and bassist of the alternative rock band Concrete Blonde.
  • C. Canadian Shift in short front vowels
    The Canadian Shift in short front vowels is a systematic sound change in many Canadian English dialects where vowels like /æ/, /ɛ/, and /ɪ/ are lowered and/or retracted, altering the traditional vowel space.
  • 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. Early Modern English vowel system
    The Early Modern English vowel system was the transitional stage of English pronunciation, marked by the Great Vowel Shift and other changes that reshaped the long-vowel inventory into a form closer to that of Present-Day English.
  • 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: English Vowel Shift
Triple: [Great Vowel Shift, hasAlternativeName, English Vowel Shift]
Generated description
English Vowel Shift is a major historical change in the pronunciation of long vowels in English that occurred mainly between the 15th and 18th centuries, significantly shaping Modern English pronunciation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: English Vowel Shift
Target entity description: English Vowel Shift is a major historical change in the pronunciation of long vowels in English that occurred mainly between the 15th and 18th centuries, significantly shaping Modern English pronunciation.
  • A. Northern Cities Vowel Shift region English
    Northern Cities Vowel Shift region English is a distinctive Midwestern American English variety characterized by a systematic rotation of short vowel sounds, especially in cities around the Great Lakes.
  • B. Vowel Movement
    Vowel Movement is a musical side project associated with Johnette Napolitano, best known as the lead singer and bassist of the alternative rock band Concrete Blonde.
  • C. Canadian Shift in short front vowels
    The Canadian Shift in short front vowels is a systematic sound change in many Canadian English dialects where vowels like /æ/, /ɛ/, and /ɪ/ are lowered and/or retracted, altering the traditional vowel space.
  • 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. Early Modern English vowel system chosen
    The Early Modern English vowel system was the transitional stage of English pronunciation, marked by the Great Vowel Shift and other changes that reshaped the long-vowel inventory into a form closer to that of Present-Day English.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e0c47b4e8c81908c8076eaa4c8e4f2 completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f121d74d388190be58b937c486fa69 completed April 28, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a5a0b1d188190a97a8b92cefcf340 completed May 18, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a5c11dc7c819083658351bbf76fa8 completed May 18, 2026, 12:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a5cf6ede48190a55392a985a73896 completed May 18, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:38 p.m.