Triple

T5162012
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lewis machine gun E116455 entity
Predicate manufacturedBy P4022 FINISHED
Object Birmingham Small Arms Company
The Birmingham Small Arms Company was a major British industrial firm best known for producing firearms, military weapons, and later motorcycles and other vehicles.
 E499073 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: Birmingham Small Arms Company | Statement: [Lewis machine gun, manufacturedBy, Birmingham Small Arms Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Birmingham Small Arms Company
Context triple: [Lewis machine gun, manufacturedBy, Birmingham Small Arms Company]
  • A. Royal Ordnance
    Royal Ordnance was a major British government-owned and later privatized arms and ammunition manufacturer known for producing a wide range of military weapons and munitions.
  • B. Auto-Ordnance Company
    Auto-Ordnance Company is an American firearms manufacturer best known for developing and producing the iconic Thompson submachine gun used extensively in World War II and by law enforcement and criminals during the early 20th century.
  • C. Winchester Repeating Arms Company
    Winchester Repeating Arms Company is a historic American firearms manufacturer renowned for its lever-action rifles and other iconic military and sporting arms.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Łucznik Arms Factory
    Łucznik Arms Factory is a Polish state-owned firearms manufacturer best known for producing military rifles and small arms, including modern service weapons for Poland’s armed forces.
  • 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: Birmingham Small Arms Company
Triple: [Lewis machine gun, manufacturedBy, Birmingham Small Arms Company]
Generated description
The Birmingham Small Arms Company was a major British industrial firm best known for producing firearms, military weapons, and later motorcycles and other vehicles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Birmingham Small Arms Company
Target entity description: The Birmingham Small Arms Company was a major British industrial firm best known for producing firearms, military weapons, and later motorcycles and other vehicles.
  • A. Royal Ordnance
    Royal Ordnance was a major British government-owned and later privatized arms and ammunition manufacturer known for producing a wide range of military weapons and munitions.
  • B. Auto-Ordnance Company
    Auto-Ordnance Company is an American firearms manufacturer best known for developing and producing the iconic Thompson submachine gun used extensively in World War II and by law enforcement and criminals during the early 20th century.
  • C. Winchester Repeating Arms Company
    Winchester Repeating Arms Company is a historic American firearms manufacturer renowned for its lever-action rifles and other iconic military and sporting arms.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Łucznik Arms Factory
    Łucznik Arms Factory is a Polish state-owned firearms manufacturer best known for producing military rifles and small arms, including modern service weapons for Poland’s armed forces.
  • 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_69bd445edb3881909b93b34d260717fc completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd79268ea48190a22d3350babc153c completed March 20, 2026, 4:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bed92eaed88190bfea287da442d376 completed March 21, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bed98c9acc8190a55ad027e659f8c2 completed March 21, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bed9f4d6cc8190a5bc9732958c41d4 completed March 21, 2026, 5:48 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:44 p.m.