Corvino
E639322
Corvino is a jealous and avaricious Venetian merchant in Ben Jonson’s play "Volpone," known for attempting to profit from the supposed illness of the wealthy Volpone by offering his own wife.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Corvino canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7043940 — 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: Corvino Context triple: [Volpone, featuresCharacter, Corvino]
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A.
Fulco
Fulco is an Italian given name most notably borne by Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, a distinguished World War I flying ace and nobleman.
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B.
Guino Rinaldo
Guino Rinaldo is a key supporting gangster character in the 1932 crime film "Scarface," serving as the loyal friend and right-hand man to the protagonist Tony Camonte.
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C.
Quarazza
Quarazza is a small hamlet in northern Italy associated with the alpine municipality of Macugnaga in the Piedmont region.
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D.
Elviro
Elviro is a comic servant character from George Frideric Handel’s opera "Serse," known for his humorous disguises and light-hearted scenes.
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E.
Mordaunt
Mordaunt is a vengeful and fanatical antagonist in Alexandre Dumas’ d'Artagnan romances, known as the ruthless son of Milady de Winter who seeks to destroy the musketeers.
- 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: Corvino Target entity description: Corvino is a jealous and avaricious Venetian merchant in Ben Jonson’s play "Volpone," known for attempting to profit from the supposed illness of the wealthy Volpone by offering his own wife.
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A.
Fulco
Fulco is an Italian given name most notably borne by Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, a distinguished World War I flying ace and nobleman.
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B.
Guino Rinaldo
Guino Rinaldo is a key supporting gangster character in the 1932 crime film "Scarface," serving as the loyal friend and right-hand man to the protagonist Tony Camonte.
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C.
Quarazza
Quarazza is a small hamlet in northern Italy associated with the alpine municipality of Macugnaga in the Piedmont region.
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D.
Elviro
Elviro is a comic servant character from George Frideric Handel’s opera "Serse," known for his humorous disguises and light-hearted scenes.
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E.
Mordaunt
Mordaunt is a vengeful and fanatical antagonist in Alexandre Dumas’ d'Artagnan romances, known as the ruthless son of Milady de Winter who seeks to destroy the musketeers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
male character ⓘ merchant ⓘ stage character ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Volpone ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Celia
ⓘ
Mosca ⓘ Volpone ⓘ |
| authorNationality | English ⓘ |
| characterIn | Volpone ⓘ |
| createdBy | Ben Jonson ⓘ |
| creator | Ben Jonson ⓘ |
| describedAs |
avaricious
ⓘ
jealous ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Volpone ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goal | to become Volpone’s heir ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance drama ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | morally corrupt ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
desire for wealth
ⓘ
greed ⓘ |
| nationality | Venetian ⓘ |
| notableAction |
attempts to profit from Volpone’s supposed illness
ⓘ
offers his wife Celia to Volpone ⓘ |
| occupation | merchant ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
greed
ⓘ
jealousy ⓘ |
| relationshipToCelia | husband ⓘ |
| residence | Venice ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
Renaissance Venice
ⓘ
linked to:
Venetian Renaissance
|
| spouse | Celia ⓘ |
| workGenre | satirical play ⓘ |
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: Corvino Description of subject: Corvino is a jealous and avaricious Venetian merchant in Ben Jonson’s play "Volpone," known for attempting to profit from the supposed illness of the wealthy Volpone by offering his own wife.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.