Triple
T1986579
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Canadian Machine Gun Corps |
E43154
|
entity |
| Predicate | equipment |
P2728
|
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: [Canadian Machine Gun Corps, equipment, Vickers machine gun]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vickers machine gun Context triple: [Canadian Machine Gun Corps, equipment, 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.
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 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.
Lewis machine guns
Lewis machine guns are early 20th-century air-cooled, drum-fed light machine guns widely used by British and Allied forces, especially in aircraft and infantry roles during World War I.
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E.
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.
- 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_69a88713ddc88190a969715658ebe7a8 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abb8232d788190938f261fd4b2f2fd |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:31 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae0331eec881909463163fb71e4eba |
completed | March 8, 2026, 11:16 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.