Triple
T5109967
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Merchant of Venice |
E115190
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Shakespeare |
E20950
|
NE FINISHED |
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: William Shakespeare | Statement: [The Merchant of Venice, author, William Shakespeare]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Shakespeare Context triple: [The Merchant of Venice, author, William Shakespeare]
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A.
William Shakespeare
chosen
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and world literature.
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B.
John Shakespeare
John Shakespeare was an English glover, wool dealer, and municipal official in Stratford-upon-Avon, best known as the father of playwright William Shakespeare.
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C.
John Webster
John Webster was a prominent Jacobean dramatist best known for his dark, complex tragedies such as "The Duchess of Malfi" and "The White Devil."
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D.
Ben Jonson
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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E.
John Lyly
John Lyly was an English Renaissance writer and playwright best known for his highly influential prose romances and court comedies, particularly "Euphues," which helped shape Elizabethan literary style.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69beba95dbd48190a7d87f3af77424e0 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 3:34 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:41 p.m.