Prospero
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Prospero is the powerful sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan who orchestrates the events on a remote island in Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Prospero canonical | 27 |
| Antonio (Prospero’s brother) | 1 |
| Prospero from The Tempest | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3290472 — 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: Prospero Context triple: [Ariel, loyalTo, Prospero]
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A.
Prospero
Prospero is the internal codename that was reportedly used by Sony during the development of the PlayStation 5 console.
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B.
Ariel
Ariel is a posthumously published poetry collection by Sylvia Plath that is widely regarded as her most powerful and influential work.
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C.
Ariel
Ariel is one of Uranus's major icy moons, known for its relatively bright surface and complex system of canyons and fault valleys.
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D.
Ariel
Ariel is a spirit of the air and a central supernatural character in William Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest."
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E.
Ariel
Ariel is the adventurous, red-haired mermaid princess from Disney’s The Little Mermaid, known for her curiosity about the human world and iconic songs like “Part of Your World.”
- 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: Prospero Target entity description: Prospero is the powerful sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan who orchestrates the events on a remote island in Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest."
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A.
Prospero
Prospero is the internal codename that was reportedly used by Sony during the development of the PlayStation 5 console.
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B.
Ariel
Ariel is a posthumously published poetry collection by Sylvia Plath that is widely regarded as her most powerful and influential work.
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C.
Ariel
Ariel is one of Uranus's major icy moons, known for its relatively bright surface and complex system of canyons and fault valleys.
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D.
Ariel
Ariel is a spirit of the air and a central supernatural character in William Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest."
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E.
Ariel
Ariel is the adventurous, red-haired mermaid princess from Disney’s The Little Mermaid, known for her curiosity about the human world and iconic songs like “Part of Your World.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Duke of Milan
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Shakespearean character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ sorcerer ⓘ |
| alliesWith | Gonzalo ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Tempest ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
colonialism
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forgiveness ⓘ illusion and reality ⓘ power ⓘ |
| child | Miranda ⓘ |
| controls | Ariel ⓘ |
| creator | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| enslaves | Caliban ⓘ |
| exiledFrom | Milan ⓘ |
| famousLine |
"This rough magic I here abjure"
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on" ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceApproximateDate | circa 1611 ⓘ |
| forgives |
Alonso
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Antonio ⓘ |
| frees | Ariel at the end of the play ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasChild | Miranda ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Antonio ⓘ |
| influences | Miranda's upbringing ⓘ |
| isRightfulRulerOf | Milan ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Early Modern English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance ⓘ |
| masterOf |
Ariel
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Caliban ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | orchestrator of the play's events ⓘ |
| notableAction |
arranges the romance between Miranda and Ferdinand
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engineers the reconciliation with his usurping brother ⓘ raises a tempest to shipwreck his enemies ⓘ |
| occupation |
duke
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magician ⓘ |
| orders |
Ariel to create the tempest
ⓘ
linked to:
Ariel in "The Tempest"
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| positionHeld | Duke of Milan ⓘ |
| renounces | magic ⓘ |
| residesIn | a remote island ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of The Tempest ⓘ |
| settingContext | remote island in the Mediterranean Sea (commonly interpreted) ⓘ |
| siblingRelation | Antonio is Prospero's younger brother ⓘ |
| spouse | Miranda's mother (unnamed in the play) ⓘ |
| title | Duke of Milan ⓘ |
| usesMagicFor |
manipulating other characters
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orchestrating a storm ⓘ |
| usurpedBy | Antonio ⓘ |
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: Prospero Description of subject: Prospero is the powerful sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan who orchestrates the events on a remote island in Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest."
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
opera "The Tempest" by Thomas Adès
subject linked to:
song “Come unto these yellow sands”
subject linked to:
song “Where the bee sucks, there suck I”
subject linked to:
Gonzalo (character in William Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest")
subject linked to:
Miranda (character in Shakespeare's The Tempest)
subject linked to:
Miranda (character in Shakespeare's The Tempest)
subject linked to:
Miranda (character in Shakespeare's The Tempest)
linked to: Prospero
subject linked to:
Miranda (character in Shakespeare's The Tempest)
linked to: Prospero
subject linked to:
Ariel in "The Tempest"
subject linked to:
Ariel in "The Tempest"
subject linked to:
Ariel in "The Tempest"