Triple

T10136723
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mephisto E226875 entity
Predicate hasProtagonist P8706 FINISHED
Object Hendrik Höfgen
Hendrik Höfgen is the ambitious actor and morally compromised central figure of Klaus Mann’s novel "Mephisto," whose rise under a fascist regime explores themes of opportunism and complicity.
E1044207 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: Hendrik Höfgen | Statement: [Mephisto, hasProtagonist, Hendrik Höfgen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hendrik Höfgen
Context triple: [Mephisto, hasProtagonist, Hendrik Höfgen]
  • A. Timotheus Höttges
    Timotheus Höttges is a German business executive best known as the long-serving CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG and a key figure in the global telecommunications industry.
  • B. Johann Hünnemann
    Johann Hünnemann was a person honored in botanical nomenclature as the namesake of the plant genus Hunnemannia.
  • C. Theodor Dorsten
    Theodor Dorsten was a 16th-century German physician and botanist known for his contributions to early modern plant taxonomy and herbal studies.
  • D. Johannes Steinhoff
    Johannes Steinhoff was a highly decorated German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II who later became a prominent general and key figure in rebuilding the postwar German Air Force and NATO air strategy.
  • E. Oskar Hagen
    Oskar Hagen was a German art historian and musicologist best known for reviving interest in George Frideric Handel’s operas and helping to establish modern Handel performance traditions.
  • 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: Hendrik Höfgen
Triple: [Mephisto, hasProtagonist, Hendrik Höfgen]
Generated description
Hendrik Höfgen is the ambitious actor and morally compromised central figure of Klaus Mann’s novel "Mephisto," whose rise under a fascist regime explores themes of opportunism and complicity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hendrik Höfgen
Target entity description: Hendrik Höfgen is the ambitious actor and morally compromised central figure of Klaus Mann’s novel "Mephisto," whose rise under a fascist regime explores themes of opportunism and complicity.
  • A. Timotheus Höttges
    Timotheus Höttges is a German business executive best known as the long-serving CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG and a key figure in the global telecommunications industry.
  • B. Johann Hünnemann
    Johann Hünnemann was a person honored in botanical nomenclature as the namesake of the plant genus Hunnemannia.
  • C. Theodor Dorsten
    Theodor Dorsten was a 16th-century German physician and botanist known for his contributions to early modern plant taxonomy and herbal studies.
  • D. Johannes Steinhoff
    Johannes Steinhoff was a highly decorated German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II who later became a prominent general and key figure in rebuilding the postwar German Air Force and NATO air strategy.
  • E. Oskar Hagen
    Oskar Hagen was a German art historian and musicologist best known for reviving interest in George Frideric Handel’s operas and helping to establish modern Handel performance traditions.
  • 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_69ca8433ec308190b8b25a6fe359c34c completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cde881a2188190a5e519b90a1b910b completed April 2, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f75462fe9081908b939a1c6bdba6b9 completed May 3, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f754d3911881909beb5f90cb8b3b91 completed May 3, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f75510dea481909e52733c55293375 completed May 3, 2026, 2 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:06 p.m.