Triple

T4375681
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gatling gun E99000 entity
Predicate inventor P632 FINISHED
Object Richard Jordan Gatling
Richard Jordan Gatling was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the Gatling gun, one of the first successful rapid-fire weapons.
E436396 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: Richard Jordan Gatling | Statement: [Gatling gun, inventor, Richard Jordan Gatling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Jordan Gatling
Context triple: [Gatling gun, inventor, Richard Jordan Gatling]
  • A. John Browning
    John Browning was a pioneering American firearms designer whose innovations, including several iconic pistols, rifles, and machine guns, profoundly shaped modern small arms.
  • B. Sir Hiram Maxim
    Sir Hiram Maxim was a British-American inventor best known for creating the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic firearms.
  • C. Alexander Lyman Holley
    Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
  • D. Edward C. Judson
    Edward C. Judson was an American businessman and film promoter best known as the first husband and early career manager of Hollywood star Rita Hayworth.
  • E. Arthur Judson
    Arthur Judson was an influential American music manager and impresario who co-founded the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and played a major role in shaping early 20th-century broadcasting and classical music management.
  • 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: Richard Jordan Gatling
Triple: [Gatling gun, inventor, Richard Jordan Gatling]
Generated description
Richard Jordan Gatling was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the Gatling gun, one of the first successful rapid-fire weapons.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Jordan Gatling
Target entity description: Richard Jordan Gatling was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the Gatling gun, one of the first successful rapid-fire weapons.
  • A. John Browning
    John Browning was a pioneering American firearms designer whose innovations, including several iconic pistols, rifles, and machine guns, profoundly shaped modern small arms.
  • B. Sir Hiram Maxim
    Sir Hiram Maxim was a British-American inventor best known for creating the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic firearms.
  • C. Alexander Lyman Holley
    Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
  • D. Edward C. Judson
    Edward C. Judson was an American businessman and film promoter best known as the first husband and early career manager of Hollywood star Rita Hayworth.
  • E. Arthur Judson
    Arthur Judson was an influential American music manager and impresario who co-founded the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and played a major role in shaping early 20th-century broadcasting and classical music management.
  • 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_69b3454ea8f48190a49c2436624d6ef6 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b352222df48190bead639e99635faf completed March 12, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e5162d5081909e7d8813907e25a6 completed March 14, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5eeadd68881909820a75aaff9d8d5 completed March 14, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5ef36f2bc8190a21e0f2fadbdd697 completed March 14, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:18 p.m.