Triple

T9818857
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lee J. Cobb E238475 entity
Predicate playedCharacter P1507 FINISHED
Object Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman E129936 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 in Death of a Salesman | Statement: [Lee J. Cobb, playedCharacter, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman
Context triple: [Lee J. Cobb, playedCharacter, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman]
  • A. Willy Loman chosen
    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.
  • B. Happy Loman
    Happy Loman is a character in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman," the younger son of Willy Loman whose shallow ambition and denial mirror the play’s critique of the American Dream.
  • C. Willy
    Willy is a common diminutive form of the given name William, often used as an informal or affectionate nickname.
  • D. Biff Loman
    Biff Loman is the conflicted elder son of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s play "Death of a Salesman," whose disillusionment with the American Dream drives much of the drama’s emotional and thematic tension.
  • E. Howard Beale in Network
    Howard Beale in *Network* is the fictional, mentally unraveling television news anchor famous for his on-air rant declaring, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ca84dfde1481909f47c286d715f892 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb2f74e348190be8e4394ae6fe3fe completed April 2, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1cc74de14819083299a549f04b2b1 completed April 5, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:31 p.m.