Triple

T5402699
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shylock E120816 entity
Predicate hasEnemy P4675 FINISHED
Object Salanio
Salanio is a minor character in Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice," one of Antonio's friends who often provides commentary on the unfolding events.
 E516844 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: Salanio | Statement: [Shylock, hasEnemy, Salanio]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Salanio
Context triple: [Shylock, hasEnemy, Salanio]
  • A. Antonio
    Antonio is a masculine given name of Latin origin, widely used in Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese-speaking cultures.
  • B. Brabantio
    Brabantio is a Venetian senator and the protective father of Desdemona in William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello."
  • C. Bassanio
    Bassanio is a young Venetian nobleman and close friend of Antonio in Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice," whose pursuit of the heiress Portia drives much of the plot.
  • D. Portia
    Portia is a wealthy, intelligent, and quick-witted heiress in Shakespeare’s play "The Merchant of Venice," renowned for her resourcefulness and famous courtroom disguise as a male lawyer.
  • E. Roderigo (character)
    Roderigo is a gullible Venetian gentleman in Shakespeare’s "Othello" who is manipulated by Iago into pursuing Desdemona and ultimately meets a tragic end.
  • 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: Salanio
Triple: [Shylock, hasEnemy, Salanio]
Generated description
Salanio is a minor character in Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice," one of Antonio's friends who often provides commentary on the unfolding events.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Salanio
Target entity description: Salanio is a minor character in Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice," one of Antonio's friends who often provides commentary on the unfolding events.
  • A. Antonio
    Antonio is a masculine given name of Latin origin, widely used in Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese-speaking cultures.
  • B. Brabantio
    Brabantio is a Venetian senator and the protective father of Desdemona in William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello."
  • C. Bassanio
    Bassanio is a young Venetian nobleman and close friend of Antonio in Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice," whose pursuit of the heiress Portia drives much of the plot.
  • D. Portia
    Portia is a wealthy, intelligent, and quick-witted heiress in Shakespeare’s play "The Merchant of Venice," renowned for her resourcefulness and famous courtroom disguise as a male lawyer.
  • E. Roderigo (character)
    Roderigo is a gullible Venetian gentleman in Shakespeare’s "Othello" who is manipulated by Iago into pursuing Desdemona and ultimately meets a tragic end.
  • 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_69bd46391c0c81909fa484446732b6a3 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd87731c1c81909a4dc865282bd289 completed March 20, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3388c10481908235da34ef509d37 completed March 22, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf341c35088190ae60de75d289ce3c completed March 22, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf34c52d108190ab3d1c287e745976 completed March 22, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:04 p.m.