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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.