Triple

T1129716
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Death of a Salesman E23000 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object 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.
E133381 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: Happy Loman | Statement: [Death of a Salesman, mainCharacter, Happy Loman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Happy Loman
Context triple: [Death of a Salesman, mainCharacter, Happy 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Happy Loman
Triple: [Death of a Salesman, mainCharacter, Happy Loman]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Happy Loman
Target entity description: 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ac667454848190acedaaa3ce7edb84 completed March 7, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac670b57808190bee4aa0be78ae8a1 completed March 7, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac67e981e88190b10ad4ab72337557 completed March 7, 2026, 6:01 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.