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]
  • 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
  • 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.