Triple

T2268548
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wounded Knee Massacre E50603 entity
Predicate hasWeaponUsed P706 FINISHED
Object Hotchkiss guns
Hotchkiss guns were rapid-firing, artillery-style weapons used by the U.S. Army in the late 19th century, notably contributing to the high casualties at the Wounded Knee Massacre.
E249982 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: Hotchkiss guns | Statement: [Wounded Knee Massacre, hasWeaponUsed, Hotchkiss guns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hotchkiss guns
Context triple: [Wounded Knee Massacre, hasWeaponUsed, Hotchkiss guns]
  • A. Gatling guns
    Gatling guns are early rapid-fire, hand-cranked machine guns that revolutionized 19th-century warfare by dramatically increasing infantry firepower.
  • B. Lewis machine guns
    Lewis machine guns are early 20th-century air-cooled, drum-fed light machine guns widely used by British and Allied forces, especially in aircraft and infantry roles during World War I.
  • C. Maxim machine gun
    The Maxim machine gun is a pioneering late 19th-century recoil-operated, water-cooled heavy machine gun that became one of the first fully automatic weapons widely adopted by major armies around the world.
  • D. HK21 machine gun
    The HK21 machine gun is a German-designed, belt-fed general-purpose machine gun developed by Heckler & Koch and based on the G3 rifle’s roller-delayed blowback system.
  • E. MG5 general-purpose machine gun
    The MG5 general-purpose machine gun is a modern 7.62×51mm NATO belt-fed weapon used by the German military as a standard infantry and vehicle-mounted support gun.
  • 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: Hotchkiss guns
Triple: [Wounded Knee Massacre, hasWeaponUsed, Hotchkiss guns]
Generated description
Hotchkiss guns were rapid-firing, artillery-style weapons used by the U.S. Army in the late 19th century, notably contributing to the high casualties at the Wounded Knee Massacre.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hotchkiss guns
Target entity description: Hotchkiss guns were rapid-firing, artillery-style weapons used by the U.S. Army in the late 19th century, notably contributing to the high casualties at the Wounded Knee Massacre.
  • A. Gatling guns
    Gatling guns are early rapid-fire, hand-cranked machine guns that revolutionized 19th-century warfare by dramatically increasing infantry firepower.
  • B. Lewis machine guns
    Lewis machine guns are early 20th-century air-cooled, drum-fed light machine guns widely used by British and Allied forces, especially in aircraft and infantry roles during World War I.
  • C. Maxim machine gun
    The Maxim machine gun is a pioneering late 19th-century recoil-operated, water-cooled heavy machine gun that became one of the first fully automatic weapons widely adopted by major armies around the world.
  • D. HK21 machine gun
    The HK21 machine gun is a German-designed, belt-fed general-purpose machine gun developed by Heckler & Koch and based on the G3 rifle’s roller-delayed blowback system.
  • E. MG5 general-purpose machine gun
    The MG5 general-purpose machine gun is a modern 7.62×51mm NATO belt-fed weapon used by the German military as a standard infantry and vehicle-mounted support gun.
  • 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_69a88b05910c8190a9a2b1ff230c85f9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc1bbb49c8190822c7d809375e879 completed March 7, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae71d70e488190a2f8276dd7a7bf9e completed March 9, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7470e3ac8190ac6e8f7cd10a4262 completed March 9, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae751895808190aac33870d80aab55 completed March 9, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.