Mauser HSc pistol
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The Mauser HSc pistol is a compact German semi-automatic handgun introduced during World War II, notable for its streamlined design and use by both military and police forces.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mauser HSc | 1 |
| Mauser HSc Super | 1 |
| Mauser HSc pistol canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3747183 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mauser HSc pistol Context triple: [Mauser, knownFor, Mauser HSc pistol]
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A.
Mauser 1910 pistol
The Mauser 1910 pistol is a compact early 20th-century German semi-automatic handgun chambered in .25 ACP, notable for its use as a civilian and police sidearm before and during World War I.
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B.
C96 pistol
The C96 pistol is a distinctive early semi-automatic handgun, recognizable by its broomhandle-style grip and integral box magazine, that became one of Mauser’s most iconic firearms.
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C.
Lewis gun
The Lewis gun is a distinctive World War I–era air-cooled, drum-fed light machine gun widely used by British and Commonwealth forces in infantry and aircraft roles.
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D.
Beretta M1934 pistol
The Beretta M1934 pistol is an Italian semi-automatic handgun widely used in the mid-20th century, notably as the firearm employed in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
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E.
Beretta M1951 pistol
The Beretta M1951 pistol is an Italian semi-automatic service handgun developed in the mid-20th century, notable for its single-stack 9×19mm design and widespread military and police use in Italy and the Middle East.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mauser HSc pistol Target entity description: The Mauser HSc pistol is a compact German semi-automatic handgun introduced during World War II, notable for its streamlined design and use by both military and police forces.
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A.
Mauser 1910 pistol
The Mauser 1910 pistol is a compact early 20th-century German semi-automatic handgun chambered in .25 ACP, notable for its use as a civilian and police sidearm before and during World War I.
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B.
C96 pistol
The C96 pistol is a distinctive early semi-automatic handgun, recognizable by its broomhandle-style grip and integral box magazine, that became one of Mauser’s most iconic firearms.
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C.
Lewis gun
The Lewis gun is a distinctive World War I–era air-cooled, drum-fed light machine gun widely used by British and Commonwealth forces in infantry and aircraft roles.
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D.
Beretta M1934 pistol
The Beretta M1934 pistol is an Italian semi-automatic handgun widely used in the mid-20th century, notably as the firearm employed in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
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E.
Beretta M1951 pistol
The Beretta M1951 pistol is an Italian semi-automatic service handgun developed in the mid-20th century, notable for its single-stack 9×19mm design and widespread military and police use in Italy and the Middle East.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
firearm
ⓘ
semi-automatic pistol ⓘ |
| action | blowback-operated ⓘ |
| barrelLength | approximately 86 mm ⓘ |
| caliber |
.380 ACP (9×17mm Short)
ⓘ
7.65×17mmSR Browning (.32 ACP) ⓘ |
| category | compact pistol ⓘ |
| chamberType | single-stack ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| designDate | 1930s ⓘ |
| designer | Alex Seidel ⓘ |
| ejectionPattern | right-side ejection ⓘ |
| era | World War II small arms ⓘ |
| feature |
exposed trigger guard
ⓘ
internal hammer ⓘ loaded chamber indicator (on some variants) ⓘ magazine safety ⓘ streamlined grip frame ⓘ |
| feedSystem | detachable box magazine ⓘ |
| firingMechanism | double-action/single-action ⓘ |
| frameMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| gripMaterial | wood ⓘ |
| intendedRole |
police sidearm
ⓘ
service pistol ⓘ |
| introduced | 1940 ⓘ |
| magazineCapacity |
7 rounds in .380 ACP
ⓘ
8 rounds in .32 ACP ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Mauser ⓘ |
| notableFor |
streamlined design
ⓘ
use by both military and police forces ⓘ |
| operation | recoil-operated blowback ⓘ |
| overallLength | approximately 152 mm ⓘ |
| producedAt |
Mauser
ⓘ
surface form:
Mauser Oberndorf factory
|
| productionPeriod |
1940–1945 (wartime production)
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post-1945 (postwar production) ⓘ |
| safety |
firing pin safety
ⓘ
manual safety lever ⓘ |
| serialNumberRange | approximately 700000–970000 (wartime) ⓘ |
| sightType | fixed iron sights ⓘ |
| successor |
Mauser HSc pistol
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mauser HSc Super
|
| triggerType | conventional pivoting trigger ⓘ |
| usedBy |
German military
ⓘ
German police ⓘ Kriegsmarine ⓘ Luftwaffe ⓘ Wehrmacht ⓘ postwar police forces ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| weightUnloaded | approximately 700 g ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Mauser HSc pistol Description of subject: The Mauser HSc pistol is a compact German semi-automatic handgun introduced during World War II, notable for its streamlined design and use by both military and police forces.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mauser HSc
subject surface form:
Mauser HSc
this entity surface form:
Mauser HSc Super