Triple

T11904149
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Merchant's Tale E283230 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object January E145117 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: January | Statement: [The Merchant's Tale, character, January]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: January
Context triple: [The Merchant's Tale, character, January]
  • A. January chosen
    January is the first month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars, commonly associated with the beginning of the new year and winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • B. December
    December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, widely associated with winter in the Northern Hemisphere and major holidays such as Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
  • C. February
    February is the second month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars, typically having 28 days and 29 in leap years.
  • D. November
    November is the eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, associated in the United States with late autumn, Thanksgiving, and the height of the football season.
  • E. January February
    "January February" is a song by Scottish singer Barbara Dickson, known as one of her popular hits from the early 1980s.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d6ab2c07e88190ba13b0d21fd6cf33 elicitation completed
NER batch_69d8e525460c81909d855048d9c799bf ner completed
NED1 batch_69f44004b454819091b41bac99895106 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:44 p.m.