Launcelot Gobbo
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Launcelot Gobbo is a comic servant character in Shakespeare’s play "The Merchant of Venice," known for his humorous wordplay and conflicted loyalties.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lancelot Gobbo | 2 |
| Launcelot Gobbo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110012 — 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: Launcelot Gobbo Context triple: [The Merchant of Venice, character, Launcelot Gobbo]
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A.
Nick Bottom
Nick Bottom is a comically overconfident weaver in Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* who is famously transformed to have a donkey’s head and becomes the unwitting object of the fairy queen Titania’s enchanted love.
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B.
Sir John Falstaff
Sir John Falstaff is a famously comic, roguish knight from Shakespeare’s history plays, known for his wit, cowardice, and love of drink and mischief.
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C.
Bardolph
Bardolph is a comic, hard-drinking companion of Sir John Falstaff in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays, known for his fiery red, pimpled face.
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D.
Philip the jester
Philip the jester is a comic figure in Xenophon’s *Symposium*, known for providing humorous relief and satirical commentary during the philosophical banquet.
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E.
Fluellen
Fluellen is a loyal and comically pedantic Welsh captain in Shakespeare’s play "Henry V," known for his strict adherence to military discipline and patriotic zeal.
- 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: Launcelot Gobbo Target entity description: Launcelot Gobbo is a comic servant character in Shakespeare’s play "The Merchant of Venice," known for his humorous wordplay and conflicted loyalties.
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A.
Nick Bottom
Nick Bottom is a comically overconfident weaver in Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* who is famously transformed to have a donkey’s head and becomes the unwitting object of the fairy queen Titania’s enchanted love.
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B.
Sir John Falstaff
Sir John Falstaff is a famously comic, roguish knight from Shakespeare’s history plays, known for his wit, cowardice, and love of drink and mischief.
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C.
Bardolph
Bardolph is a comic, hard-drinking companion of Sir John Falstaff in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays, known for his fiery red, pimpled face.
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D.
Philip the jester
Philip the jester is a comic figure in Xenophon’s *Symposium*, known for providing humorous relief and satirical commentary during the philosophical banquet.
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E.
Fluellen
Fluellen is a loyal and comically pedantic Welsh captain in Shakespeare’s play "Henry V," known for his strict adherence to military discipline and patriotic zeal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shakespearean character
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comic character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ servant ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Merchant of Venice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInAct | Act II of The Merchant of Venice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | Elizabethan drama ⓘ |
| appearsWithCharacter |
Bassanio
NERFINISHED
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Lorenzo NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Gobbo NERFINISHED ⓘ Shylock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
loyalty
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servitude ⓘ social class ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
foolish
ⓘ
humorous ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| creator | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Shylock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Gobbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Merchant of Venice universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Launcelot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialogueFeature |
aside
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prose speech ⓘ soliloquy ⓘ |
| hasFather | Old Gobbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Old Gobbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comic wordplay
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conflicted loyalties ⓘ malapropisms ⓘ puns ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| laterEmployer | Bassanio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryGenreOfWork | comedy ⓘ |
| loyaltyConflictWith |
Bassanio
NERFINISHED
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Shylock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | stage ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Venetian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | servant ⓘ |
| partOf | Shakespearean canon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | comic relief ⓘ |
| stageRoleType |
clown
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servant clown ⓘ |
| timeOfCreation | late 16th century ⓘ |
| workLocation | Venice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Launcelot Gobbo Description of subject: Launcelot Gobbo is a comic servant character in Shakespeare’s play "The Merchant of Venice," known for his humorous wordplay and conflicted loyalties.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lancelot Gobbo
this entity surface form:
Lancelot Gobbo