Triple
T1129713
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Death of a Salesman |
E23000
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Willy Loman
Willy Loman is the aging, disillusioned traveling salesman at the center of Arthur Miller’s play, whose crumbling dreams and mental decline expose the dark side of the American Dream.
|
E129936
|
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: Willy Loman | Statement: [Death of a Salesman, mainCharacter, Willy Loman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willy Loman Context triple: [Death of a Salesman, mainCharacter, Willy Loman]
-
A.
Willy
Willy is a common diminutive form of the given name William, often used as an informal or affectionate nickname.
-
B.
George Bluth Sr.
George Bluth Sr. is a fictional, morally dubious real estate developer and patriarch of the dysfunctional Bluth family in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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C.
Myrtle Wilson
Myrtle Wilson is a tragic, ambitious woman from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel *The Great Gatsby* whose affair with Tom Buchanan and fatal end highlight the era’s class divisions and moral decay.
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D.
Michael Bluth
Michael Bluth is the responsible, level-headed son who struggles to keep his wildly dysfunctional family and their failing real estate business together in the sitcom "Arrested Development."
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E.
Mr. Sands
Mr. Sands is a white slaveholder and the complex, often morally ambiguous love interest of the narrator in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
- 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: Willy Loman Triple: [Death of a Salesman, mainCharacter, Willy Loman]
Generated description
Willy Loman is the aging, disillusioned traveling salesman at the center of Arthur Miller’s play, whose crumbling dreams and mental decline expose the dark side of the American Dream.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willy Loman Target entity description: Willy Loman is the aging, disillusioned traveling salesman at the center of Arthur Miller’s play, whose crumbling dreams and mental decline expose the dark side of the American Dream.
-
A.
Willy
Willy is a common diminutive form of the given name William, often used as an informal or affectionate nickname.
-
B.
George Bluth Sr.
George Bluth Sr. is a fictional, morally dubious real estate developer and patriarch of the dysfunctional Bluth family in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
-
C.
Myrtle Wilson
Myrtle Wilson is a tragic, ambitious woman from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel *The Great Gatsby* whose affair with Tom Buchanan and fatal end highlight the era’s class divisions and moral decay.
-
D.
Michael Bluth
Michael Bluth is the responsible, level-headed son who struggles to keep his wildly dysfunctional family and their failing real estate business together in the sitcom "Arrested Development."
-
E.
Mr. Sands
Mr. Sands is a white slaveholder and the complex, often morally ambiguous love interest of the narrator in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
- 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_69a493ec75988190b63a11bafaec29b4 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bbf979108190adad7073c8275dd2 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac59a82bb8819084f77aff9af653c0 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac5a97f1408190855d8ea4f4317b07 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:04 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac5b1b5930819098f511db269e991d |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:06 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.