Triple
T9814560
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Benjamin B. Hotchkiss |
E238366
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Hotchkiss mountain gun |
E249982
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 mountain gun | Statement: [Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, notableWork, Hotchkiss mountain gun]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hotchkiss mountain gun Context triple: [Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, notableWork, Hotchkiss mountain gun]
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A.
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.
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B.
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.
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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.
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D.
Hotchkiss guns
chosen
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.
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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.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca84defac48190abc1148804f184c1 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cdb2f19660819083e3f15780352052 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 12:06 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d1d5b264c88190bf16c8c32c360878 |
completed | April 5, 2026, 3:23 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:30 p.m.