Triple

T1963250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Buddenbrooks E42632 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Christian Buddenbrook
Christian Buddenbrook is a key member of the merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," known for his eccentric, hypochondriacal nature and inability to conform to bourgeois expectations.
E221790 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: Christian Buddenbrook | Statement: [Buddenbrooks, notableCharacter, Christian Buddenbrook]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christian Buddenbrook
Context triple: [Buddenbrooks, notableCharacter, Christian Buddenbrook]
  • A. Tony Buddenbrook
    Tony Buddenbrook is a central character in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," embodying the decline of a wealthy Lübeck merchant family through her ill-fated marriages and conflicted sense of duty and personal desire.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Elke Büdenbender
    Elke Büdenbender is a German judge who serves as the First Lady of Germany as the wife of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
  • D. Tonio Kröger
    Tonio Kröger is a novella by Thomas Mann that explores the inner conflict of an artist torn between bourgeois respectability and bohemian creativity.
  • E. Tibby Schlegel
    Tibby Schlegel is a fictional character from E. M. Forster's novel "Howards End," known as the younger, somewhat self-absorbed brother in the Schlegel family.
  • 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: Christian Buddenbrook
Triple: [Buddenbrooks, notableCharacter, Christian Buddenbrook]
Generated description
Christian Buddenbrook is a key member of the merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," known for his eccentric, hypochondriacal nature and inability to conform to bourgeois expectations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christian Buddenbrook
Target entity description: Christian Buddenbrook is a key member of the merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," known for his eccentric, hypochondriacal nature and inability to conform to bourgeois expectations.
  • A. Tony Buddenbrook
    Tony Buddenbrook is a central character in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," embodying the decline of a wealthy Lübeck merchant family through her ill-fated marriages and conflicted sense of duty and personal desire.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Elke Büdenbender
    Elke Büdenbender is a German judge who serves as the First Lady of Germany as the wife of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
  • D. Tonio Kröger
    Tonio Kröger is a novella by Thomas Mann that explores the inner conflict of an artist torn between bourgeois respectability and bohemian creativity.
  • E. Tibby Schlegel
    Tibby Schlegel is a fictional character from E. M. Forster's novel "Howards End," known as the younger, somewhat self-absorbed brother in the Schlegel family.
  • 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_69ae031ef4e48190af93dfd6f33184d3 completed March 8, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0386785c8190ae74e5f04a4809fc completed March 8, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae042728f48190850848116a371794 completed March 8, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.