Triple

T11904150
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Merchant's Tale E283230 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object May
May is the young, unfaithful wife in Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Merchant’s Tale," whose adultery and manipulation highlight the poem’s darkly comic view of marriage.
 E954348 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: May | Statement: [The Merchant's Tale, character, May]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: May
Context triple: [The Merchant's Tale, character, May]
  • A. May
    May is a common English surname borne by numerous individuals, including former UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
  • B. Maio
    Maio is one of the main islands of Cape Verde, known for its quiet beaches, salt flats, and relatively flat, arid landscape.
  • C. April
    April is a spring month in the Gregorian calendar often associated with mild weather and the blooming of many flowers.
  • D. June
    June is an early-summer month in the Northern Hemisphere often associated with favorable weather for outdoor activities and mountaineering.
  • E. Juni
    Juni is a bilingual producer known for creating content across multiple languages.
  • 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: May
Triple: [The Merchant's Tale, character, May]
Generated description
May is the young, unfaithful wife in Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Merchant’s Tale," whose adultery and manipulation highlight the poem’s darkly comic view of marriage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: May
Target entity description: May is the young, unfaithful wife in Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Merchant’s Tale," whose adultery and manipulation highlight the poem’s darkly comic view of marriage.
  • A. May
    May is a common English surname borne by numerous individuals, including former UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
  • B. Maio
    Maio is one of the main islands of Cape Verde, known for its quiet beaches, salt flats, and relatively flat, arid landscape.
  • C. April
    April is a spring month in the Gregorian calendar often associated with mild weather and the blooming of many flowers.
  • D. June
    June is an early-summer month in the Northern Hemisphere often associated with favorable weather for outdoor activities and mountaineering.
  • E. Juni
    Juni is a bilingual producer known for creating content across multiple languages.
  • 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_69d6ab2c07e88190ba13b0d21fd6cf33 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8e525460c81909d855048d9c799bf completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f44004b454819091b41bac99895106 completed May 1, 2026, 5:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f448fa8eec81909fe6ac0902f46998 completed May 1, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f44aef15148190ba8090681b921ffa completed May 1, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:44 p.m.