Melot
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Melot is a minor but pivotal character in Richard Wagner’s opera "Tristan und Isolde," known for betraying Tristan and triggering the tragic climax of the story.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Melot canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4952075 — 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: Melot Context triple: [Tristan und Isolde, character, Melot]
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A.
Mora
Mora is a town in central Sweden’s Dalarna region, known for its traditional Swedish culture, proximity to Lake Siljan, and as the finish line of the Vasaloppet cross-country ski race.
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B.
Mora
Mora is a municipality in Portugal known for its rural Alentejo landscapes, traditional villages, and proximity to the Montargil reservoir.
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C.
Mora
Mora is a surname of Hungarian origin most notably borne by the German-Hungarian writer Terézia Mora.
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D.
Levasy
Levasy is a small city located in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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E.
Valleiry
Valleiry is a small French commune in the Haute-Savoie department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France, near the Swiss border.
- 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: Melot Target entity description: Melot is a minor but pivotal character in Richard Wagner’s opera "Tristan und Isolde," known for betraying Tristan and triggering the tragic climax of the story.
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A.
Mora
Mora is a municipality in Portugal known for its rural Alentejo landscapes, traditional villages, and proximity to the Montargil reservoir.
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B.
Mora
Mora is a surname of Hungarian origin most notably borne by the German-Hungarian writer Terézia Mora.
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C.
Mora
Mora is a town in central Sweden’s Dalarna region, known for its traditional Swedish culture, proximity to Lake Siljan, and as the finish line of the Vasaloppet cross-country ski race.
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D.
Levasy
Levasy is a small city located in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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E.
Valleiry
Valleiry is a small French commune in the Haute-Savoie department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France, near the Swiss border.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
opera character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Tristan und Isolde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInAct |
Act II of Tristan und Isolde
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Act III of Tristan und Isolde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | King Marke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| betrayalType |
personal betrayal
ⓘ
political betrayal ⓘ |
| betrays | Tristan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Richard Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction |
catalyst for tragedy
ⓘ
instigator of conflict ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceOfWork | 1865 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | music drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | German ⓘ |
| loyalTo | King Marke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | opera ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | antagonist ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | pivotal character ⓘ |
| operaComposer | Richard Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposes | the love between Tristan and Isolde ⓘ |
| relationshipToKingMarke | vassal ⓘ |
| relationshipToTristan |
betrayer
ⓘ
former friend ⓘ |
| roleInWork | minor character ⓘ |
| settingOfWork |
Brittany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cornwall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| triggers | tragic climax of Tristan und Isolde ⓘ |
| workBasedOn | medieval Tristan legend ⓘ |
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: Melot Description of subject: Melot is a minor but pivotal character in Richard Wagner’s opera "Tristan und Isolde," known for betraying Tristan and triggering the tragic climax of the story.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.