Triple

T9194403
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Buddenbrook family E220666 entity
Predicate hasNotableMember P304 FINISHED
Object Jean Buddenbrook
Jean Buddenbrook is a fictional member of the wealthy merchant family at the center of Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," representing the traditions and values of the 19th-century Lübeck bourgeoisie.
E783286 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: Jean Buddenbrook | Statement: [Buddenbrook family, hasNotableMember, Jean Buddenbrook]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jean Buddenbrook
Context triple: [Buddenbrook family, hasNotableMember, Jean Buddenbrook]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Leonard Bast
    Leonard Bast is a lower-middle-class insurance clerk and aspiring intellectual in E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," whose struggles highlight the era’s class tensions and social injustices.
  • E. George Mulliner
    George Mulliner is a recurring comic character created by P. G. Wodehouse, known as one of the hapless members of the Mulliner family whose romantic and social misadventures are recounted in humorous short stories.
  • 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: Jean Buddenbrook
Triple: [Buddenbrook family, hasNotableMember, Jean Buddenbrook]
Generated description
Jean Buddenbrook is a fictional member of the wealthy merchant family at the center of Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," representing the traditions and values of the 19th-century Lübeck bourgeoisie.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jean Buddenbrook
Target entity description: Jean Buddenbrook is a fictional member of the wealthy merchant family at the center of Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," representing the traditions and values of the 19th-century Lübeck bourgeoisie.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Leonard Bast
    Leonard Bast is a lower-middle-class insurance clerk and aspiring intellectual in E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," whose struggles highlight the era’s class tensions and social injustices.
  • E. George Mulliner
    George Mulliner is a recurring comic character created by P. G. Wodehouse, known as one of the hapless members of the Mulliner family whose romantic and social misadventures are recounted in humorous short stories.
  • 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.