Triple
T15994088
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Maxim gun |
E387915
|
entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Vickers machine gun |
E111768
|
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: Vickers machine gun | Statement: [Maxim gun, successor, Vickers machine gun]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vickers machine gun Context triple: [Maxim gun, successor, Vickers machine gun]
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A.
Vickers machine gun
chosen
The Vickers machine gun is a British water-cooled, belt-fed heavy machine gun widely used by the British Empire’s armed forces from World War I through World War II.
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B.
Vickers K machine guns
Vickers K machine guns were fast-firing British aircraft-derived machine guns widely used in World War II for flexible, high-rate-of-fire roles, including by special forces and reconnaissance units.
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C.
Hotchkiss machine gun
The Hotchkiss machine gun is a late 19th-century, gas-operated, air-cooled heavy machine gun widely used by several armies, particularly France’s, during World War I and into World War II.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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_69d86daa562c81908aacc179c0fe8fb5 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e15785fad48190af0556e7ddfd29c5 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 9:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ffc3d5d72081908aa235c5ad9b5707 |
completed | May 9, 2026, 11:31 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:55 a.m.