Triple

T6437592
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Willy Loman E129936 entity
Predicate boss P40430 FINISHED
Object Howard Wagner
Howard Wagner is the young, business-focused employer of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman," representing the impersonal, modern corporate world.
E595845 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: Howard Wagner | Statement: [Willy Loman, boss, Howard Wagner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Wagner
Context triple: [Willy Loman, boss, Howard Wagner]
  • A. Richard E. Wagner
    Richard E. Wagner is an American economist known for his work in public finance and public choice theory, and for his collaborations with James M. Buchanan.
  • B. Paul Speer
    Paul Speer is an American guitarist and composer best known for his work in new-age and instrumental rock music, including collaborations with artists like David Lanz.
  • C. Anthony Kilhoffer
    Anthony Kilhoffer is a Grammy-winning American record producer and audio engineer known for his extensive work with artists like Kanye West and other major hip-hop and pop acts.
  • D. Howard Vollum
    Howard Vollum was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Tektronix, a pioneering company in oscilloscopes and electronic test equipment.
  • E. Wilm Hosenfeld
    Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer known for secretly helping and ultimately saving Polish Jews, most famously the pianist Władysław Szpilman, during World War II.
  • 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: Howard Wagner
Triple: [Willy Loman, boss, Howard Wagner]
Generated description
Howard Wagner is the young, business-focused employer of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman," representing the impersonal, modern corporate world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Wagner
Target entity description: Howard Wagner is the young, business-focused employer of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman," representing the impersonal, modern corporate world.
  • A. Richard E. Wagner
    Richard E. Wagner is an American economist known for his work in public finance and public choice theory, and for his collaborations with James M. Buchanan.
  • B. Paul Speer
    Paul Speer is an American guitarist and composer best known for his work in new-age and instrumental rock music, including collaborations with artists like David Lanz.
  • C. Anthony Kilhoffer
    Anthony Kilhoffer is a Grammy-winning American record producer and audio engineer known for his extensive work with artists like Kanye West and other major hip-hop and pop acts.
  • D. Howard Vollum
    Howard Vollum was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Tektronix, a pioneering company in oscilloscopes and electronic test equipment.
  • E. Wilm Hosenfeld
    Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer known for secretly helping and ultimately saving Polish Jews, most famously the pianist Władysław Szpilman, during World War II.
  • 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_69c0084caac48190a7bc2ad8ba44536f completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c06964186c8190aeeb0038f4696032 completed March 22, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6538ca31c8190b4a24662c4eeffe9 completed March 27, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6542f23548190a0905c0e2c7341f6 completed March 27, 2026, 9:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c654918d9881909f3886ec52a7b00b completed March 27, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:45 p.m.