Ariel
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Ariel is a spirit of the air and a central supernatural character in William Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ariel canonical | 20 |
| Ariel (spirit in Shakespeare's The Tempest) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T551218 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ariel Context triple: [Ariel Award, namedAfter, Ariel]
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A.
Ariel
Ariel is a posthumously published poetry collection by Sylvia Plath that is widely regarded as her most powerful and influential work.
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B.
Calypso
Calypso is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for detaining the hero Odysseus on her island of Ogygia in Homer's Odyssey.
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C.
Maia
Maia is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiades and the mother of the god Hermes.
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D.
Sophia
Sophia of the Palatinate was a 17th-century German princess and Electress of Hanover, best known as the mother of King George I of Great Britain and a key figure in the Protestant succession to the British throne.
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E.
Sebastian
Sebastian is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in many European and English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ariel Target entity description: Ariel is a spirit of the air and a central supernatural character in William Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest."
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A.
Ariel
Ariel is a posthumously published poetry collection by Sylvia Plath that is widely regarded as her most powerful and influential work.
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B.
Calypso
Calypso is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for detaining the hero Odysseus on her island of Ogygia in Homer's Odyssey.
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C.
Maia
Maia is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiades and the mother of the god Hermes.
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D.
Sophia
Sophia of the Palatinate was a 17th-century German princess and Electress of Hanover, best known as the mother of King George I of Great Britain and a key figure in the Protestant succession to the British throne.
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E.
Sebastian
Sebastian is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in many European and English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a play
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fictional character ⓘ spirit ⓘ supernatural being ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Tempest ⓘ |
| assists | Ferdinand and Miranda’s meeting ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
air
ⓘ
invisibility ⓘ music ⓘ song “Come unto these yellow sands” ⓘ song “Full fathom five” ⓘ song “Where the bee sucks, there suck I” ⓘ |
| causes | the tempest (storm) that opens the play ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Caliban ⓘ |
| creator | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| demandsFromProspero | freedom ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Act I of The Tempest
ⓘ
linked to:
The Tempest
|
| formerMaster | Sycorax ⓘ |
| freedBy | Prospero ⓘ |
| gender | ambiguous ⓘ |
| imprisonedBy | Sycorax ⓘ |
| imprisonedIn | cloven pine ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Prospero ⓘ |
| medium | drama ⓘ |
| nationalityOfWork | English literature ⓘ |
| nature | air spirit ⓘ |
| obeys | Prospero’s commands ⓘ |
| occupation | servant ⓘ |
| partOf |
Shakespearean canon
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linked to:
works of William Shakespeare
|
| performs |
illusions
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magic ⓘ music ⓘ songs ⓘ |
| promised | eventual freedom ⓘ |
| requests | release from service ⓘ |
| role | central supernatural character ⓘ |
| serves | Prospero ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | the enchanted island in The Tempest ⓘ |
| species | spirit ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
art
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freedom ⓘ imagination ⓘ |
| torments |
Alonso
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Antonio ⓘ Sebastian ⓘ |
| workLanguage | Early Modern English ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ariel Description of subject: Ariel is a spirit of the air and a central supernatural character in William Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ariel
subject linked to:
opera "The Tempest" by Thomas Adès
subject linked to:
song “Full fathom five”
subject linked to:
song “Come unto these yellow sands”
subject linked to:
song “Where the bee sucks, there suck I”
subject linked to:
song “Where the bee sucks, there suck I”