Triple
T19980547
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Launcelot Gobbo |
E493804
|
entity |
| Predicate | fictionalUniverse |
P3758
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FINISHED |
| Object | The Merchant of Venice universe |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: The Merchant of Venice universe | Statement: [Launcelot Gobbo, fictionalUniverse, The Merchant of Venice universe]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Merchant of Venice universe Context triple: [Launcelot Gobbo, fictionalUniverse, The Merchant of Venice universe]
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A.
The Merchant of Venice
chosen
The Merchant of Venice is a Shakespearean play that blends romantic comedy with intense drama, best known for the character Shylock and its exploration of mercy, justice, and prejudice.
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B.
Shylock
Shylock is the complex Jewish moneylender and central antagonist-turned-sympathetic figure in William Shakespeare’s play "The Merchant of Venice."
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C.
The Merchant of Yonkers
The Merchant of Yonkers is a 1938 farcical play by Thornton Wilder that served as the earlier version of his later, more famous play The Matchmaker, which in turn inspired the musical Hello, Dolly!.
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D.
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.
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E.
The Merchant
"The Merchant" is a notable work by the ancient Roman playwright Philemon, likely a comedy reflecting everyday social and economic life in classical Greece or Rome.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69da626a67648190af9653832a3aeced |
completed | April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e65d12d968819081e315ec4585cd9f |
completed | April 20, 2026, 5:06 p.m. |
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:28 p.m.