Triple

T13618514
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Curtain of Green and Other Stories E325387 entity
Predicate containsWork P2011 FINISHED
Object Death of a Traveling Salesman
"Death of a Traveling Salesman" is a short story by Eudora Welty that explores themes of isolation, disillusionment, and human connection through the experiences of a weary salesman in the rural American South.
E1051742 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: Death of a Traveling Salesman | Statement: [A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, containsWork, Death of a Traveling Salesman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Death of a Traveling Salesman
Context triple: [A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, containsWork, Death of a Traveling Salesman]
  • A. A Journey That Wasn’t
    A Journey That Wasn’t is a 2005 multimedia art project and film by Pierre Huyghe that interweaves a staged Antarctic expedition with a choreographed outdoor performance in New York’s Central Park to explore memory, fiction, and constructed realities.
  • B. The Riddle of the Third Mile
    The Riddle of the Third Mile is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring a complex murder investigation set in Oxford.
  • C. The Deliberate Stranger
    The Deliberate Stranger is a 1986 television miniseries dramatizing the crimes and capture of serial killer Ted Bundy, starring Mark Harmon and JoBeth Williams.
  • D. Death by Numbers
    Death by Numbers is a track from Childish Gambino’s concept album "Because the Internet," known for its brief, interlude-like structure that contributes to the record’s overarching narrative.
  • E. Mysterious Traveller
    Mysterious Traveller is a landmark 1974 jazz fusion album by the band Weather Report, noted for its innovative blend of electric jazz, funk, and world music influences.
  • 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: Death of a Traveling Salesman
Triple: [A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, containsWork, Death of a Traveling Salesman]
Generated description
"Death of a Traveling Salesman" is a short story by Eudora Welty that explores themes of isolation, disillusionment, and human connection through the experiences of a weary salesman in the rural American South.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Death of a Traveling Salesman
Target entity description: "Death of a Traveling Salesman" is a short story by Eudora Welty that explores themes of isolation, disillusionment, and human connection through the experiences of a weary salesman in the rural American South.
  • A. A Journey That Wasn’t
    A Journey That Wasn’t is a 2005 multimedia art project and film by Pierre Huyghe that interweaves a staged Antarctic expedition with a choreographed outdoor performance in New York’s Central Park to explore memory, fiction, and constructed realities.
  • B. The Riddle of the Third Mile
    The Riddle of the Third Mile is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring a complex murder investigation set in Oxford.
  • C. The Deliberate Stranger
    The Deliberate Stranger is a 1986 television miniseries dramatizing the crimes and capture of serial killer Ted Bundy, starring Mark Harmon and JoBeth Williams.
  • D. Death by Numbers
    Death by Numbers is a track from Childish Gambino’s concept album "Because the Internet," known for its brief, interlude-like structure that contributes to the record’s overarching narrative.
  • E. Mysterious Traveller
    Mysterious Traveller is a landmark 1974 jazz fusion album by the band Weather Report, noted for its innovative blend of electric jazz, funk, and world music influences.
  • 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_69d8076aae28819092cf636190ee5529 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbb0ae77e0819081e3b14642460dc6 completed April 12, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f77fa0b81c819094e2fa209ef9857c completed May 3, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f783c24d088190ad53fa2d33a255c9 completed May 3, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f78452e8bc8190a55f2be349fe718f completed May 3, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:50 p.m.