Triple

T2026321
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Death in Venice E44415 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Gustav von Aschenbach
Gustav von Aschenbach is the aging, disciplined German writer whose obsessive infatuation with a beautiful boy in Thomas Mann’s novella "Death in Venice" leads to his tragic moral and physical decline.
E226578 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: Gustav von Aschenbach | Statement: [Death in Venice, mainCharacter, Gustav von Aschenbach]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gustav von Aschenbach
Context triple: [Death in Venice, mainCharacter, Gustav von Aschenbach]
  • A. Adrian Leverkühn
    Adrian Leverkühn is the fictional German composer in Thomas Mann’s novel "Doctor Faustus," whose tragic pact for artistic genius serves as an allegory for the moral and cultural collapse of Germany.
  • B. William von Meister
    William von Meister was an American entrepreneur and technology pioneer best known for his early work in online services and telecommunications that helped lay the groundwork for consumer internet access.
  • C. Heinrich von Vietinghoff
    Heinrich von Vietinghoff was a German Wehrmacht general who commanded major Axis forces in Italy during World War II, including serving as commander-in-chief of German troops in the Italian campaign.
  • 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. Johnny Morgenstern
    Johnny Morgenstern is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Morgenstern.
  • 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: Gustav von Aschenbach
Triple: [Death in Venice, mainCharacter, Gustav von Aschenbach]
Generated description
Gustav von Aschenbach is the aging, disciplined German writer whose obsessive infatuation with a beautiful boy in Thomas Mann’s novella "Death in Venice" leads to his tragic moral and physical decline.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gustav von Aschenbach
Target entity description: Gustav von Aschenbach is the aging, disciplined German writer whose obsessive infatuation with a beautiful boy in Thomas Mann’s novella "Death in Venice" leads to his tragic moral and physical decline.
  • A. Adrian Leverkühn
    Adrian Leverkühn is the fictional German composer in Thomas Mann’s novel "Doctor Faustus," whose tragic pact for artistic genius serves as an allegory for the moral and cultural collapse of Germany.
  • B. William von Meister
    William von Meister was an American entrepreneur and technology pioneer best known for his early work in online services and telecommunications that helped lay the groundwork for consumer internet access.
  • C. Heinrich von Vietinghoff
    Heinrich von Vietinghoff was a German Wehrmacht general who commanded major Axis forces in Italy during World War II, including serving as commander-in-chief of German troops in the Italian campaign.
  • 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. Johnny Morgenstern
    Johnny Morgenstern is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Morgenstern.
  • 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_69a889144f2481909932f0746a93023d completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb91055d88190a980e7b42e5895d4 completed March 7, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0afc9e3c8190a045ef1c987c4141 completed March 8, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0d524a048190ac290b0a9939d2bf completed March 8, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0dbf06008190b595de89f17c0104 completed March 9, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.