Triple

T3785744
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hiram Maxim E85525 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Maxim Gun Company
Maxim Gun Company was the arms manufacturer founded by inventor Hiram Maxim to produce and market the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic weapons.
E387916 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: Maxim Gun Company | Statement: [Hiram Maxim, employer, Maxim Gun Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maxim Gun Company
Context triple: [Hiram Maxim, employer, Maxim Gun Company]
  • A. Smith & Wesson
    Smith & Wesson is a major American firearms manufacturer renowned for its revolvers, pistols, and long guns used by civilians, law enforcement, and military forces worldwide.
  • B. Springfield Armory
    Springfield Armory was a historic United States firearms manufacturing and military small arms research facility in Springfield, Massachusetts, that played a central role in American arms production from the Revolutionary War through the 20th century.
  • C. Cobra Firearms
    Cobra Firearms is an American firearms manufacturer best known for producing inexpensive, compact derringer-style pistols and small defensive handguns.
  • D. Beretta
    Beretta is a historic Italian firearms manufacturer renowned worldwide for its pistols, shotguns, and military small arms.
  • E. Armour & Company
    Armour & Company was a major American meatpacking and food processing corporation that played a central role in the industrialization of the U.S. meat industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Maxim Gun Company
Triple: [Hiram Maxim, employer, Maxim Gun Company]
Generated description
Maxim Gun Company was the arms manufacturer founded by inventor Hiram Maxim to produce and market the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic weapons.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maxim Gun Company
Target entity description: Maxim Gun Company was the arms manufacturer founded by inventor Hiram Maxim to produce and market the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic weapons.
  • A. Smith & Wesson
    Smith & Wesson is a major American firearms manufacturer renowned for its revolvers, pistols, and long guns used by civilians, law enforcement, and military forces worldwide.
  • B. Springfield Armory
    Springfield Armory was a historic United States firearms manufacturing and military small arms research facility in Springfield, Massachusetts, that played a central role in American arms production from the Revolutionary War through the 20th century.
  • C. Cobra Firearms
    Cobra Firearms is an American firearms manufacturer best known for producing inexpensive, compact derringer-style pistols and small defensive handguns.
  • D. Beretta
    Beretta is a historic Italian firearms manufacturer renowned worldwide for its pistols, shotguns, and military small arms.
  • E. Armour & Company
    Armour & Company was a major American meatpacking and food processing corporation that played a central role in the industrialization of the U.S. meat industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69aed937fa8881908208ef3801060826 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee42d2bc88190ab85529fcd1aa20a completed March 9, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4f04a35448190a57f431ef703b1e1 completed March 14, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4f159d7e88190a76d51378ba141d3 completed March 14, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4f220f9388190b2c3615f713f01f2 completed March 14, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:13 p.m.