Triple

T10749261
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Horace Howard Furness E253530 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Variorum edition of The Merchant of Venice
The Variorum edition of The Merchant of Venice is a scholarly, annotated version of Shakespeare’s play that compiles and compares extensive critical commentary and textual variants, edited by Horace Howard Furness.
E884382 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: Variorum edition of The Merchant of Venice | Statement: [Horace Howard Furness, notableWork, Variorum edition of The Merchant of Venice]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Variorum edition of The Merchant of Venice
Context triple: [Horace Howard Furness, notableWork, Variorum edition of The Merchant of Venice]
  • A. Folger Shakespeare Library editions of Shakespeare’s plays
    The Folger Shakespeare Library editions of Shakespeare’s plays are a widely used series of scholarly yet accessible texts that pair modernized spelling and helpful annotations with authoritative introductions and contextual materials.
  • B. Second Folio of Shakespeare
    The Second Folio of Shakespeare is the 1632 second collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, notable for reprinting and slightly revising the landmark First Folio text.
  • C. First Folio of Shakespeare
    The First Folio of Shakespeare is the 1623 collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, regarded as the most authoritative early source for many of his works and a cornerstone of English literary history.
  • D. Complutensian Polyglot Bible
    The Complutensian Polyglot Bible is a landmark early 16th-century multilingual edition of the Bible that presents the scriptures in parallel Hebrew, Greek, and Latin texts, reflecting Renaissance humanist scholarship.
  • E. The Gentleman of Venice
    The Gentleman of Venice is a Caroline-era stage play by James Shirley, known as a tragicomedy set in Venice that explores themes of honor, love, and social intrigue.
  • 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: Variorum edition of The Merchant of Venice
Triple: [Horace Howard Furness, notableWork, Variorum edition of The Merchant of Venice]
Generated description
The Variorum edition of The Merchant of Venice is a scholarly, annotated version of Shakespeare’s play that compiles and compares extensive critical commentary and textual variants, edited by Horace Howard Furness.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Variorum edition of The Merchant of Venice
Target entity description: The Variorum edition of The Merchant of Venice is a scholarly, annotated version of Shakespeare’s play that compiles and compares extensive critical commentary and textual variants, edited by Horace Howard Furness.
  • A. Folger Shakespeare Library editions of Shakespeare’s plays
    The Folger Shakespeare Library editions of Shakespeare’s plays are a widely used series of scholarly yet accessible texts that pair modernized spelling and helpful annotations with authoritative introductions and contextual materials.
  • B. Second Folio of Shakespeare
    The Second Folio of Shakespeare is the 1632 second collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, notable for reprinting and slightly revising the landmark First Folio text.
  • C. First Folio of Shakespeare
    The First Folio of Shakespeare is the 1623 collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, regarded as the most authoritative early source for many of his works and a cornerstone of English literary history.
  • D. Complutensian Polyglot Bible
    The Complutensian Polyglot Bible is a landmark early 16th-century multilingual edition of the Bible that presents the scriptures in parallel Hebrew, Greek, and Latin texts, reflecting Renaissance humanist scholarship.
  • E. The Gentleman of Venice
    The Gentleman of Venice is a Caroline-era stage play by James Shirley, known as a tragicomedy set in Venice that explores themes of honor, love, and social intrigue.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69d6aa5e51e8819095f06881cecf152e completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d71dbecd58819081e859ebf72f656c completed April 9, 2026, 3:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de231af7388190b73347a3ffc1077a completed April 14, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de27fb843c81908c0d0a5fb231543f completed April 14, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de2dff4a048190823c8b5f1f7ea548 completed April 14, 2026, 12:07 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:15 p.m.