Triple
T15994089
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Maxim gun |
E387915
|
entity |
| Predicate | influenced |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | MG 08 machine gun |
E413133
|
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: MG 08 machine gun | Statement: [Maxim gun, influenced, MG 08 machine gun]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: MG 08 machine gun Context triple: [Maxim gun, influenced, MG 08 machine gun]
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A.
MG 08 machine gun
chosen
The MG 08 machine gun was the German Army’s standard heavy machine gun in World War I, a water-cooled, belt-fed weapon derived from Hiram Maxim’s design and known for its reliability and sustained firepower.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
MG3 machine gun
The MG3 machine gun is a German 7.62×51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun derived from the World War II-era MG 42 and widely used by NATO and other armed forces for decades.
- 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_69ffcf1cb1388190b1ebccc6705e5974 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 12:19 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:55 a.m.