Triple

T1963287
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Doctor Faustus E42633 entity
Predicate narrator P2181 FINISHED
Object Serenus Zeitblom
Serenus Zeitblom is the fictional scholarly friend and biographer of composer Adrian Leverkühn who serves as the reflective, humanist narrator of Thomas Mann’s novel "Doctor Faustus."
E220671 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: Serenus Zeitblom | Statement: [Doctor Faustus, narrator, Serenus Zeitblom]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Serenus Zeitblom
Context triple: [Doctor Faustus, narrator, Serenus Zeitblom]
  • A. Gerard
    Gerard is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
  • B. Magus
    Magus is a mysterious spiritual master in Paulo Coelho’s novel "Brida," guiding the protagonist through her journey of self-discovery and magical initiation.
  • C. Emenius Sleepus
    Emenius Sleepus is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day from their breakthrough 1994 album "Dookie."
  • D. Degory Priest
    Degory Priest was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who traveled on the Mayflower and participated in the founding governance of the colony.
  • E. Logumer Vorwerk
    Logumer Vorwerk is a district of the seaport city of Emden in Lower Saxony, Germany.
  • 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: Serenus Zeitblom
Triple: [Doctor Faustus, narrator, Serenus Zeitblom]
Generated description
Serenus Zeitblom is the fictional scholarly friend and biographer of composer Adrian Leverkühn who serves as the reflective, humanist narrator of Thomas Mann’s novel "Doctor Faustus."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Serenus Zeitblom
Target entity description: Serenus Zeitblom is the fictional scholarly friend and biographer of composer Adrian Leverkühn who serves as the reflective, humanist narrator of Thomas Mann’s novel "Doctor Faustus."
  • A. Gerard
    Gerard is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
  • B. Magus
    Magus is a mysterious spiritual master in Paulo Coelho’s novel "Brida," guiding the protagonist through her journey of self-discovery and magical initiation.
  • C. Emenius Sleepus
    Emenius Sleepus is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day from their breakthrough 1994 album "Dookie."
  • D. Degory Priest
    Degory Priest was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who traveled on the Mayflower and participated in the founding governance of the colony.
  • E. Logumer Vorwerk
    Logumer Vorwerk is a district of the seaport city of Emden in Lower Saxony, Germany.
  • 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.