Triple
T1963248
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Buddenbrooks |
E42632
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableCharacter |
P1481
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Thomas Buddenbrook
Thomas Buddenbrook is the ambitious yet increasingly disillusioned head of a wealthy merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," whose life reflects the decline of his bourgeois dynasty.
|
E220667
|
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: Thomas Buddenbrook | Statement: [Buddenbrooks, notableCharacter, Thomas Buddenbrook]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Buddenbrook Context triple: [Buddenbrooks, notableCharacter, Thomas Buddenbrook]
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A.
Silas Lapham
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
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B.
Henry Wilcox
Henry Wilcox is a wealthy, pragmatic businessman and patriarch in E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," embodying the values and limitations of the Edwardian upper-middle class.
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C.
Ralph Milbanke
Ralph Milbanke was a British aristocrat and member of the Milbanke family, notable as the father of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
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D.
Hosea Biglow
Hosea Biglow is a fictional New England farmer and dialect-speaking narrator created by James Russell Lowell to satirize politics and society in "The Biglow Papers."
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E.
Daniel Huttlestone
Daniel Huttlestone is an English actor best known for his roles in musical films, including playing Gavroche in "Les Misérables" (2012) and Jack in "Into the Woods" (2014).
- 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: Thomas Buddenbrook Triple: [Buddenbrooks, notableCharacter, Thomas Buddenbrook]
Generated description
Thomas Buddenbrook is the ambitious yet increasingly disillusioned head of a wealthy merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," whose life reflects the decline of his bourgeois dynasty.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Buddenbrook Target entity description: Thomas Buddenbrook is the ambitious yet increasingly disillusioned head of a wealthy merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," whose life reflects the decline of his bourgeois dynasty.
-
A.
Silas Lapham
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
-
B.
Henry Wilcox
Henry Wilcox is a wealthy, pragmatic businessman and patriarch in E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," embodying the values and limitations of the Edwardian upper-middle class.
-
C.
Ralph Milbanke
Ralph Milbanke was a British aristocrat and member of the Milbanke family, notable as the father of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
-
D.
Hosea Biglow
Hosea Biglow is a fictional New England farmer and dialect-speaking narrator created by James Russell Lowell to satirize politics and society in "The Biglow Papers."
-
E.
Daniel Huttlestone
Daniel Huttlestone is an English actor best known for his roles in musical films, including playing Gavroche in "Les Misérables" (2012) and Jack in "Into the Woods" (2014).
- 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_69a88711151c8190940b2572095059d7 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abb3ac31a08190abaecac8badc52c7 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:12 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69adfbd32eb88190a2069b6490b12e5d |
completed | March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69adfc50a3488190afe44ee5125d9ebd |
completed | March 8, 2026, 10:46 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69adfcdccce48190a2591b90c81ad084 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 10:49 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.