Triple

T2014411
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Magic Mountain E43761 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Hans Castorp
Hans Castorp is the introspective young German engineer whose prolonged stay at a Swiss sanatorium drives the philosophical and psychological exploration at the heart of Thomas Mann’s novel *The Magic Mountain*.
E226212 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: Hans Castorp | Statement: [The Magic Mountain, mainCharacter, Hans Castorp]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hans Castorp
Context triple: [The Magic Mountain, mainCharacter, Hans Castorp]
  • A. Johnny Morgenstern
    Johnny Morgenstern is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Morgenstern.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Maximilian von Morgenstern
    Maximilian von Morgenstern is a person notable enough to be recognized as a distinguished bearer of the surname Morgenstern.
  • D. Alois
    Alois is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by Alois Hitler, the father of Adolf Hitler.
  • E. Josef Jennewein
    Josef Jennewein was a German World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace and former Olympic alpine skier.
  • 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: Hans Castorp
Triple: [The Magic Mountain, mainCharacter, Hans Castorp]
Generated description
Hans Castorp is the introspective young German engineer whose prolonged stay at a Swiss sanatorium drives the philosophical and psychological exploration at the heart of Thomas Mann’s novel *The Magic Mountain*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hans Castorp
Target entity description: Hans Castorp is the introspective young German engineer whose prolonged stay at a Swiss sanatorium drives the philosophical and psychological exploration at the heart of Thomas Mann’s novel *The Magic Mountain*.
  • A. Johnny Morgenstern
    Johnny Morgenstern is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Morgenstern.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Maximilian von Morgenstern
    Maximilian von Morgenstern is a person notable enough to be recognized as a distinguished bearer of the surname Morgenstern.
  • D. Alois
    Alois is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by Alois Hitler, the father of Adolf Hitler.
  • E. Josef Jennewein
    Josef Jennewein was a German World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace and former Olympic alpine skier.
  • 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_69a88716e9f08190946313fdc949e3cf completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb8b610a88190bc10fd7dda19da08 completed March 7, 2026, 5:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0aeca6388190befe0630d44de109 completed March 8, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0bb8b34c81908f817bb1fbcb1873 completed March 8, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0c20aaf48190852334f9c76d0d18 completed March 8, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.