Triple
T1129715
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Death of a Salesman |
E23000
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
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.
|
E131188
|
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: Biff Loman | Statement: [Death of a Salesman, mainCharacter, Biff Loman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Biff Loman Context triple: [Death of a Salesman, mainCharacter, Biff Loman]
-
A.
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.
-
B.
Willy
Willy is a common diminutive form of the given name William, often used as an informal or affectionate nickname.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Linda Loman
Linda Loman is the loyal, long-suffering wife of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s play "Death of a Salesman," embodying emotional strength, denial, and devotion amid her family’s collapse.
- 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: Biff Loman Triple: [Death of a Salesman, mainCharacter, Biff Loman]
Generated description
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.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Biff Loman Target entity description: 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.
-
A.
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.
-
B.
Willy
Willy is a common diminutive form of the given name William, often used as an informal or affectionate nickname.
-
C.
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."
-
D.
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.
-
E.
Linda Loman
Linda Loman is the loyal, long-suffering wife of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s play "Death of a Salesman," embodying emotional strength, denial, and devotion amid her family’s collapse.
- 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_69ac5ead716c81908bf7c6531cbff7f1 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:21 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac5f2f566c8190a5630cee9c77e231 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:23 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac5fc6b6748190837a640623411eea |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:26 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.