Triple

T1986580
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canadian Machine Gun Corps E43154 entity
Predicate equipment P2728 FINISHED
Object 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.
E222994 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: Lewis gun | Statement: [Canadian Machine Gun Corps, equipment, Lewis gun]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis gun
Context triple: [Canadian Machine Gun Corps, equipment, Lewis gun]
  • A. Sten submachine gun
    The Sten submachine gun was a simple, inexpensive British 9mm World War II firearm widely used by Allied forces and resistance fighters for its ease of manufacture and concealment.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Thompson submachine gun
    The Thompson submachine gun is an iconic American automatic firearm, widely used by gangsters and law enforcement during the Prohibition era and later adopted by the military in World War II.
  • D. Carcano rifle
    The Carcano rifle is an Italian bolt-action military rifle most widely known as the weapon used by Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Lewis gun
Triple: [Canadian Machine Gun Corps, equipment, Lewis gun]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis gun
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. Sten submachine gun
    The Sten submachine gun was a simple, inexpensive British 9mm World War II firearm widely used by Allied forces and resistance fighters for its ease of manufacture and concealment.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Thompson submachine gun
    The Thompson submachine gun is an iconic American automatic firearm, widely used by gangsters and law enforcement during the Prohibition era and later adopted by the military in World War II.
  • D. Carcano rifle
    The Carcano rifle is an Italian bolt-action military rifle most widely known as the weapon used by Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_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.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae03e575a88190a93181eb9d9bc3eb completed March 8, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0473aecc8190b3da07fb8fd18e81 completed March 8, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.