Triple

T4306116
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thompson submachine gun E99958 entity
Predicate manufacturer P490 FINISHED
Object Auto-Ordnance Company
Auto-Ordnance Company is an American firearms manufacturer best known for developing and producing the iconic Thompson submachine gun used extensively in World War II and by law enforcement and criminals during the early 20th century.
E428843 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: Auto-Ordnance Company | Statement: [Thompson submachine gun, manufacturer, Auto-Ordnance Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Auto-Ordnance Company
Context triple: [Thompson submachine gun, manufacturer, Auto-Ordnance Company]
  • A. Winchester Repeating Arms Company
    Winchester Repeating Arms Company is a historic American firearms manufacturer renowned for its lever-action rifles and other iconic military and sporting arms.
  • B. Maxim Gun Company
    Maxim Gun Company was the arms manufacturer founded by inventor Hiram Maxim to produce and market the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic weapons.
  • C. Springfield Armory
    Springfield Armory was a historic United States firearms manufacturing and military small arms research facility in Springfield, Massachusetts, that played a central role in American arms production from the Revolutionary War through the 20th century.
  • D. Armour & Company
    Armour & Company was a major American meatpacking and food processing corporation that played a central role in the industrialization of the U.S. meat industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Royal Ordnance
    Royal Ordnance was a major British government-owned and later privatized arms and ammunition manufacturer known for producing a wide range of military weapons and munitions.
  • 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: Auto-Ordnance Company
Triple: [Thompson submachine gun, manufacturer, Auto-Ordnance Company]
Generated description
Auto-Ordnance Company is an American firearms manufacturer best known for developing and producing the iconic Thompson submachine gun used extensively in World War II and by law enforcement and criminals during the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Auto-Ordnance Company
Target entity description: Auto-Ordnance Company is an American firearms manufacturer best known for developing and producing the iconic Thompson submachine gun used extensively in World War II and by law enforcement and criminals during the early 20th century.
  • A. Winchester Repeating Arms Company
    Winchester Repeating Arms Company is a historic American firearms manufacturer renowned for its lever-action rifles and other iconic military and sporting arms.
  • B. Maxim Gun Company
    Maxim Gun Company was the arms manufacturer founded by inventor Hiram Maxim to produce and market the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic weapons.
  • C. Springfield Armory
    Springfield Armory was a historic United States firearms manufacturing and military small arms research facility in Springfield, Massachusetts, that played a central role in American arms production from the Revolutionary War through the 20th century.
  • D. Armour & Company
    Armour & Company was a major American meatpacking and food processing corporation that played a central role in the industrialization of the U.S. meat industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Royal Ordnance
    Royal Ordnance was a major British government-owned and later privatized arms and ammunition manufacturer known for producing a wide range of military weapons and munitions.
  • 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_69b345528ebc8190b5abc7e95094792d completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b350ba57ec8190afda7d8318e5d2d0 completed March 12, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5c75382848190a4f2141a72e3fb3a completed March 14, 2026, 8:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5c7dcd4948190b996d215bcdd223d completed March 14, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5c863be608190985357d9bd13eb2d completed March 14, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:09 p.m.