Triple

T5927380
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christopher Marlowe E131846 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is Christopher Marlowe’s renowned Elizabethan tragedy about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.
E559827 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: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus | Statement: [Christopher Marlowe, notableWork, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Context triple: [Christopher Marlowe, notableWork, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus]
  • A. Doctor Faustus
    Doctor Faustus is a 1947 novel by Thomas Mann that reimagines the Faust legend through the life of a German composer whose pact with the devil allegorically reflects the rise of Nazism and the moral collapse of Germany.
  • B. Doctor Faustus (opera)
    Doctor Faustus (opera) is a 20th-century operatic adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s tragic play about the scholar who sells his soul to the devil.
  • C. The Spanish Tragedy
    The Spanish Tragedy is a seminal late 16th-century revenge tragedy by Thomas Kyd that profoundly influenced Elizabethan drama and paved the way for plays like Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
  • D. Historia von D. Johann Fausten
    "Historia von D. Johann Fausten" is a 16th-century German chapbook that presents one of the earliest and most influential printed versions of the Faust legend, depicting the life and damnation of the scholar who makes a pact with the devil.
  • E. The Duchess of Malfi
    The Duchess of Malfi is a dark Jacobean tragedy by John Webster that explores corruption, power, and female agency within an Italian court.
  • 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: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Triple: [Christopher Marlowe, notableWork, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus]
Generated description
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is Christopher Marlowe’s renowned Elizabethan tragedy about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Target entity description: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is Christopher Marlowe’s renowned Elizabethan tragedy about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.
  • A. Doctor Faustus
    Doctor Faustus is a 1947 novel by Thomas Mann that reimagines the Faust legend through the life of a German composer whose pact with the devil allegorically reflects the rise of Nazism and the moral collapse of Germany.
  • B. Doctor Faustus (opera)
    Doctor Faustus (opera) is a 20th-century operatic adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s tragic play about the scholar who sells his soul to the devil.
  • C. The Spanish Tragedy
    The Spanish Tragedy is a seminal late 16th-century revenge tragedy by Thomas Kyd that profoundly influenced Elizabethan drama and paved the way for plays like Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
  • D. Historia von D. Johann Fausten
    "Historia von D. Johann Fausten" is a 16th-century German chapbook that presents one of the earliest and most influential printed versions of the Faust legend, depicting the life and damnation of the scholar who makes a pact with the devil.
  • E. The Duchess of Malfi
    The Duchess of Malfi is a dark Jacobean tragedy by John Webster that explores corruption, power, and female agency within an Italian court.
  • 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_69c0085b75e88190a632f9691f9da48b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0385592b48190a885efb9549d88c7 completed March 22, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0e3a9b6348190909e14e095e2eea0 completed March 23, 2026, 6:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0f14baca88190a1cd552b73420cce completed March 23, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0f1f04af08190b0cd28811ef37cfe completed March 23, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4 p.m.