Triple

T5110012
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Merchant of Venice E115190 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Launcelot Gobbo
Launcelot Gobbo is a comic servant character in Shakespeare’s play "The Merchant of Venice," known for his humorous wordplay and conflicted loyalties.
E493804 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: Launcelot Gobbo | Statement: [The Merchant of Venice, character, Launcelot Gobbo]
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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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: Launcelot Gobbo
Triple: [The Merchant of Venice, character, Launcelot Gobbo]
Generated description
Launcelot Gobbo is a comic servant character in Shakespeare’s play "The Merchant of Venice," known for his humorous wordplay and conflicted loyalties.
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

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_69bd4441d1648190a54a533895041987 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd75ac19e88190aa8cc8b930a58d2d completed March 20, 2026, 4:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bebaa719748190930dceaeedb346c2 completed March 21, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bebb8e5f1c819082f0b59e9524d6e8 completed March 21, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bebc30029081909b5c937308fefcf2 completed March 21, 2026, 3:41 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:41 p.m.