Triple
T20285684
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas Shadwell |
E509868
|
entity |
| Predicate | styleComparedTo |
P278
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ben Jonson |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Ben Jonson | Statement: [Thomas Shadwell, styleComparedTo, Ben Jonson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Jonson Context triple: [Thomas Shadwell, styleComparedTo, Ben Jonson]
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A.
Ben Jonson
chosen
Ben Jonson was a prominent English Renaissance dramatist and poet, best known for his satirical plays such as "Volpone" and "The Alchemist" and for helping shape early modern English theatre.
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B.
Philip Massinger
Philip Massinger was a prominent early 17th-century English dramatist best known for his complex, socially critical plays such as "A New Way to Pay Old Debts."
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C.
Sir William Davenant
Sir William Davenant was a 17th-century English poet, playwright, and theatre manager, noted for his innovations in Restoration drama and for succeeding Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate.
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D.
Arthur Massinger
Arthur Massinger was the father of the English Renaissance dramatist Philip Massinger, likely a member of the gentry connected with the legal or administrative circles of early 17th-century England.
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E.
Thomas Shadwell
Thomas Shadwell was a 17th-century English playwright and poet known for his satirical comedies and his rivalry with John Dryden.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b4c652388190b782cad965e5a098 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e676924f48819095f6224c8d9bb257 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 6:55 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:06 a.m.