Triple

T10136220
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Modder River E226860 entity
Predicate weaponUsed P706 FINISHED
Object Lee–Metford rifles
Lee–Metford rifles were late 19th-century British bolt-action, magazine-fed service rifles that combined James Paris Lee’s action with Metford’s rifling and were widely used in colonial and early Boer War campaigns.
E843298 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: Lee–Metford rifles | Statement: [Battle of Modder River, weaponUsed, Lee–Metford rifles]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lee–Metford rifles
Context triple: [Battle of Modder River, weaponUsed, Lee–Metford rifles]
  • A. Lee–Enfield rifle
    The Lee–Enfield rifle is a British bolt-action, magazine-fed service rifle that became one of the most widely used infantry weapons of the first half of the 20th century.
  • B. Martini–Henry rifle
    The Martini–Henry rifle is a 19th-century British single-shot, breech-loading service rifle renowned for its use in the Anglo-Zulu War and other Victorian-era colonial conflicts.
  • C. Snider–Enfield rifle
    The Snider–Enfield rifle was a 19th-century British breech-loading conversion of the Enfield muzzle-loading rifle, widely used by the British Army during the mid to late 1800s.
  • D. M1917 Enfield rifle
    The M1917 Enfield rifle is a bolt-action military service rifle used extensively by U.S. forces during World War I and beyond, valued for its robustness, accuracy, and .30-06 chambering.
  • E. Berdan rifle
    The Berdan rifle was a 19th-century single-shot bolt-action military rifle that served as a standard infantry weapon of the Imperial Russian Army.
  • 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: Lee–Metford rifles
Triple: [Battle of Modder River, weaponUsed, Lee–Metford rifles]
Generated description
Lee–Metford rifles were late 19th-century British bolt-action, magazine-fed service rifles that combined James Paris Lee’s action with Metford’s rifling and were widely used in colonial and early Boer War campaigns.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lee–Metford rifles
Target entity description: Lee–Metford rifles were late 19th-century British bolt-action, magazine-fed service rifles that combined James Paris Lee’s action with Metford’s rifling and were widely used in colonial and early Boer War campaigns.
  • A. Lee–Enfield rifle
    The Lee–Enfield rifle is a British bolt-action, magazine-fed service rifle that became one of the most widely used infantry weapons of the first half of the 20th century.
  • B. Martini–Henry rifle
    The Martini–Henry rifle is a 19th-century British single-shot, breech-loading service rifle renowned for its use in the Anglo-Zulu War and other Victorian-era colonial conflicts.
  • C. Snider–Enfield rifle
    The Snider–Enfield rifle was a 19th-century British breech-loading conversion of the Enfield muzzle-loading rifle, widely used by the British Army during the mid to late 1800s.
  • D. M1917 Enfield rifle
    The M1917 Enfield rifle is a bolt-action military service rifle used extensively by U.S. forces during World War I and beyond, valued for its robustness, accuracy, and .30-06 chambering.
  • E. Berdan rifle
    The Berdan rifle was a 19th-century single-shot bolt-action military rifle that served as a standard infantry weapon of the Imperial Russian Army.
  • 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_69ca8433ec308190b8b25a6fe359c34c completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cde87fae288190bb4f13e1ae90f50a completed April 2, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2e5e4664081908c1821006bd2f57f completed April 5, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2e73e4d5081909f0068d3bed583d3 completed April 5, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2e7eea4d88190a2ec6d22a83934b3 completed April 5, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:06 p.m.