Triple

T9194402
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Buddenbrook family E220666 entity
Predicate hasNotableMember P304 FINISHED
Object Johann Buddenbrook (senior)
Johann Buddenbrook (senior) is a fictional 18th-century merchant patriarch in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," representing the founding generation of the Buddenbrook family’s commercial dynasty.
E783285 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: Johann Buddenbrook (senior) | Statement: [Buddenbrook family, hasNotableMember, Johann Buddenbrook (senior)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johann Buddenbrook (senior)
Context triple: [Buddenbrook family, hasNotableMember, Johann Buddenbrook (senior)]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Herr Schultz
    Herr Schultz is a kindly, aging Jewish fruit-shop owner whose doomed romance with Fraulein Schneider provides a poignant emotional core to the musical *Cabaret*.
  • E. Hans Hubermann
    Hans Hubermann is a kind, accordion-playing German foster father in "The Book Thief" whose quiet courage and compassion shape the life of the story’s young protagonist during Nazi-era 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: Johann Buddenbrook (senior)
Triple: [Buddenbrook family, hasNotableMember, Johann Buddenbrook (senior)]
Generated description
Johann Buddenbrook (senior) is a fictional 18th-century merchant patriarch in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," representing the founding generation of the Buddenbrook family’s commercial dynasty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johann Buddenbrook (senior)
Target entity description: Johann Buddenbrook (senior) is a fictional 18th-century merchant patriarch in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," representing the founding generation of the Buddenbrook family’s commercial dynasty.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Herr Schultz
    Herr Schultz is a kindly, aging Jewish fruit-shop owner whose doomed romance with Fraulein Schneider provides a poignant emotional core to the musical *Cabaret*.
  • E. Hans Hubermann
    Hans Hubermann is a kind, accordion-playing German foster father in "The Book Thief" whose quiet courage and compassion shape the life of the story’s young protagonist during Nazi-era 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_69ca83e7ba70819088b74866d9da2c30 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ccd5c3614c81909e26417e00fdfa11 completed April 1, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d05c313004819090fe0e5d4e7bc15e completed April 4, 2026, 12:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d05d138c288190a0eab9be6bd649c0 completed April 4, 2026, 12:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d05df1a0888190a2bdc48a159b865e completed April 4, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:25 p.m.