Triple

T8239736
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Ghost E192504 entity
Predicate speaksFirstTo P3272 FINISHED
Object Marcellus
Marcellus is a minor character in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Hamlet," a guard at Elsinore who is among the first to witness and report the appearance of the ghost of King Hamlet.
 E720981 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: Marcellus | Statement: [The Ghost, speaksFirstTo, Marcellus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Marcellus
Context triple: [The Ghost, speaksFirstTo, Marcellus]
  • A. Marcellus
    Marcellus is a prominent ancient Roman cognomen associated with members of the patrician Claudian gens, notably borne by several distinguished statesmen and military leaders.
  • B. Marcellus Wiley
    Marcellus Wiley is a former NFL defensive end and later sports media personality who played college football at Columbia University.
  • C. Tyrannus
    Tyrannus is a genus of robust, often aggressive New World flycatchers known for their aerial insect hunting and territorial behavior.
  • D. Sychaeus
    Sychaeus is a wealthy Phoenician nobleman and priest of Hercules in Roman mythology, best known as the murdered husband of Queen Dido of Carthage.
  • E. Cletus
    Cletus is traditionally regarded as one of the early popes of the Catholic Church, venerated as a saint in Christian liturgy.
  • 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: Marcellus
Triple: [The Ghost, speaksFirstTo, Marcellus]
Generated description
Marcellus is a minor character in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Hamlet," a guard at Elsinore who is among the first to witness and report the appearance of the ghost of King Hamlet.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Marcellus
Target entity description: Marcellus is a minor character in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Hamlet," a guard at Elsinore who is among the first to witness and report the appearance of the ghost of King Hamlet.
  • A. Marcellus
    Marcellus is a prominent ancient Roman cognomen associated with members of the patrician Claudian gens, notably borne by several distinguished statesmen and military leaders.
  • B. Marcellus Wiley
    Marcellus Wiley is a former NFL defensive end and later sports media personality who played college football at Columbia University.
  • C. Tyrannus
    Tyrannus is a genus of robust, often aggressive New World flycatchers known for their aerial insect hunting and territorial behavior.
  • D. Sychaeus
    Sychaeus is a wealthy Phoenician nobleman and priest of Hercules in Roman mythology, best known as the murdered husband of Queen Dido of Carthage.
  • E. Cletus
    Cletus is traditionally regarded as one of the early popes of the Catholic Church, venerated as a saint in Christian liturgy.
  • 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_69ca82dc8f148190a2c75a98501a7b91 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb783cce5c8190bf116704d2923ade completed March 31, 2026, 7:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd350f57d48190ae2f24d136bb3eee completed April 1, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd37a47f3c81909491e9b0316c32f0 completed April 1, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd4ecc8d68819099932b1ecefc0d36 completed April 1, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:47 p.m.