Triple

T6113049
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Webster E136291 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The White Devil
The White Devil is a Jacobean revenge tragedy play by John Webster, renowned for its dark portrayal of corruption, violence, and moral ambiguity in Italian courtly life.
E573792 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: The White Devil | Statement: [John Webster, notableWork, The White Devil]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The White Devil
Context triple: [John Webster, notableWork, The White Devil]
  • A. ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
    ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore is a controversial Caroline-era tragedy by English playwright John Ford, best known for its shocking depiction of incestuous love and moral corruption in Renaissance Italy.
  • B. The Duchess of Malfi
    The Duchess of Malfi is a dark Jacobean tragedy by John Webster that explores corruption, power, and female agency within an Italian court.
  • C. The Revenger's Tragedy
    The Revenger's Tragedy is a darkly satirical Jacobean revenge tragedy, long misattributed to Cyril Tourneur, that exposes courtly corruption and moral decay through its violent plot and bitter humor.
  • D. The Spanish Tragedy
    The Spanish Tragedy is a seminal late 16th-century revenge tragedy by Thomas Kyd that profoundly influenced Elizabethan drama and paved the way for plays like Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
  • E. Doctor Faustus
    Doctor Faustus is a 1947 novel by Thomas Mann that reimagines the Faust legend through the life of a German composer whose pact with the devil allegorically reflects the rise of Nazism and the moral collapse of Germany.
  • 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: The White Devil
Triple: [John Webster, notableWork, The White Devil]
Generated description
The White Devil is a Jacobean revenge tragedy play by John Webster, renowned for its dark portrayal of corruption, violence, and moral ambiguity in Italian courtly life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The White Devil
Target entity description: The White Devil is a Jacobean revenge tragedy play by John Webster, renowned for its dark portrayal of corruption, violence, and moral ambiguity in Italian courtly life.
  • A. ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
    ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore is a controversial Caroline-era tragedy by English playwright John Ford, best known for its shocking depiction of incestuous love and moral corruption in Renaissance Italy.
  • B. The Duchess of Malfi
    The Duchess of Malfi is a dark Jacobean tragedy by John Webster that explores corruption, power, and female agency within an Italian court.
  • C. The Revenger's Tragedy
    The Revenger's Tragedy is a darkly satirical Jacobean revenge tragedy, long misattributed to Cyril Tourneur, that exposes courtly corruption and moral decay through its violent plot and bitter humor.
  • D. The Spanish Tragedy
    The Spanish Tragedy is a seminal late 16th-century revenge tragedy by Thomas Kyd that profoundly influenced Elizabethan drama and paved the way for plays like Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
  • E. Doctor Faustus
    Doctor Faustus is a 1947 novel by Thomas Mann that reimagines the Faust legend through the life of a German composer whose pact with the devil allegorically reflects the rise of Nazism and the moral collapse of Germany.
  • 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_69c0089ea6f88190b349be53e04b4f5f completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05bbf2ee4819097af2cce9248bf4e completed March 22, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c141619c148190b0fb94e2b1458510 completed March 23, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c147d2e29881909d32966377c1d311 completed March 23, 2026, 2:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c14bed19248190af1ad227dd2cfac4 completed March 23, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:14 p.m.