Triple

T838003
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Satsuma Rebellion E18112 entity
Predicate militaryTechnologyUsed P6496 FINISHED
Object Gatling guns
Gatling guns are early rapid-fire, hand-cranked machine guns that revolutionized 19th-century warfare by dramatically increasing infantry firepower.
E99000 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: Gatling guns | Statement: [Satsuma Rebellion, militaryTechnologyUsed, Gatling guns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gatling guns
Context triple: [Satsuma Rebellion, militaryTechnologyUsed, Gatling guns]
  • A. 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.
  • B. MG 131 machine gun
    The MG 131 machine gun was a German 13 mm aircraft-mounted heavy machine gun used extensively by the Luftwaffe during World War II for defensive and offensive armament on various combat aircraft.
  • C. MG 81 machine gun
    The MG 81 machine gun was a fast-firing 7.92 mm German aircraft-mounted weapon used extensively by the Luftwaffe during World War II.
  • D. 7.62 mm M240 machine gun
    The 7.62 mm M240 machine gun is a belt-fed, gas-operated general-purpose machine gun widely used by U.S. and NATO forces for infantry support and as a mounted weapon on vehicles and aircraft.
  • E. MG 42 machine gun
    The MG 42 machine gun is a German World War II-era general-purpose machine gun renowned for its extremely high rate of fire, reliability, and influential design that shaped postwar machine guns worldwide.
  • 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: Gatling guns
Triple: [Satsuma Rebellion, militaryTechnologyUsed, Gatling guns]
Generated description
Gatling guns are early rapid-fire, hand-cranked machine guns that revolutionized 19th-century warfare by dramatically increasing infantry firepower.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gatling guns
Target entity description: Gatling guns are early rapid-fire, hand-cranked machine guns that revolutionized 19th-century warfare by dramatically increasing infantry firepower.
  • A. 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.
  • B. MG 131 machine gun
    The MG 131 machine gun was a German 13 mm aircraft-mounted heavy machine gun used extensively by the Luftwaffe during World War II for defensive and offensive armament on various combat aircraft.
  • C. MG 81 machine gun
    The MG 81 machine gun was a fast-firing 7.92 mm German aircraft-mounted weapon used extensively by the Luftwaffe during World War II.
  • D. 7.62 mm M240 machine gun
    The 7.62 mm M240 machine gun is a belt-fed, gas-operated general-purpose machine gun widely used by U.S. and NATO forces for infantry support and as a mounted weapon on vehicles and aircraft.
  • E. MG 42 machine gun
    The MG 42 machine gun is a German World War II-era general-purpose machine gun renowned for its extremely high rate of fire, reliability, and influential design that shaped postwar machine guns worldwide.
  • 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_69a49389f44881909a608fb27d89f247 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b2b66c908190a52f731119b77a1e completed March 1, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7929624e88190bb7e1c644b8cc52b completed March 4, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a793a3fa2481909cfdfd5825ee8e8d completed March 4, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a794261614819089e8d36c7a0a94f1 completed March 4, 2026, 2:08 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.