Triple

T15542787
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 58th Regiment of Foot E370522 entity
Predicate equipment P2728 FINISHED
Object Brown Bess musket
The Brown Bess musket was a standard-issue smoothbore flintlock firearm used extensively by British infantry from the early 18th to the mid-19th century, notably during the American Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
E1163335 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: Brown Bess musket | Statement: [58th Regiment of Foot, equipment, Brown Bess musket]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brown Bess musket
Context triple: [58th Regiment of Foot, equipment, Brown Bess musket]
  • A. Model 1842 musket
    The Model 1842 musket was a mid-19th-century U.S. military smoothbore firearm notable as one of the last standard-issue muskets before the widespread adoption of rifled muskets.
  • B. Ferguson rifle
    The Ferguson rifle was an innovative 18th-century British breech-loading flintlock firearm, notable for its rapid rate of fire and association with Major Patrick Ferguson during the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Springfield Model 1795 musket
    The Springfield Model 1795 musket was the first standardized military firearm produced in the United States, widely used by American forces in the early 19th century.
  • D. Martini–Henry rifle
    The Martini–Henry rifle is a 19th-century British single-shot, breech-loading service rifle renowned for its use in the Anglo-Zulu War and other Victorian-era colonial conflicts.
  • E. French Charleville Model 1766 musket
    The French Charleville Model 1766 musket was a .69 caliber flintlock infantry firearm widely used by French forces and influential in the design of early American military muskets.
  • 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: Brown Bess musket
Triple: [58th Regiment of Foot, equipment, Brown Bess musket]
Generated description
The Brown Bess musket was a standard-issue smoothbore flintlock firearm used extensively by British infantry from the early 18th to the mid-19th century, notably during the American Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brown Bess musket
Target entity description: The Brown Bess musket was a standard-issue smoothbore flintlock firearm used extensively by British infantry from the early 18th to the mid-19th century, notably during the American Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  • A. Model 1842 musket
    The Model 1842 musket was a mid-19th-century U.S. military smoothbore firearm notable as one of the last standard-issue muskets before the widespread adoption of rifled muskets.
  • B. Ferguson rifle
    The Ferguson rifle was an innovative 18th-century British breech-loading flintlock firearm, notable for its rapid rate of fire and association with Major Patrick Ferguson during the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Springfield Model 1795 musket
    The Springfield Model 1795 musket was the first standardized military firearm produced in the United States, widely used by American forces in the early 19th century.
  • D. Martini–Henry rifle
    The Martini–Henry rifle is a 19th-century British single-shot, breech-loading service rifle renowned for its use in the Anglo-Zulu War and other Victorian-era colonial conflicts.
  • E. French Charleville Model 1766 musket
    The French Charleville Model 1766 musket was a .69 caliber flintlock infantry firearm widely used by French forces and influential in the design of early American military muskets.
  • 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_69d85cc521a08190921fb50319dddc34 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04432c3808190bb5b653bf8de30c6 completed April 16, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff4558677881908704ac86c12e1fc4 completed May 9, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff468d1db88190ad71bc6780df5439 completed May 9, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff472fb24c8190912755bd95ef50c9 completed May 9, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:07 a.m.