Triple
T4981557
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Battle of Shiroyama |
E111895
|
entity |
| Predicate | weaponUsedByImperialForces |
P7745
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Gatling guns |
E99000
|
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: Gatling guns | Statement: [Battle of Shiroyama, weaponUsedByImperialForces, Gatling guns]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gatling guns Context triple: [Battle of Shiroyama, weaponUsedByImperialForces, Gatling guns]
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A.
Gatling guns
chosen
Gatling guns are early rapid-fire, hand-cranked machine guns that revolutionized 19th-century warfare by dramatically increasing infantry firepower.
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B.
Hotchkiss guns
Hotchkiss guns were rapid-firing, artillery-style weapons used by the U.S. Army in the late 19th century, notably contributing to the high casualties at the Wounded Knee Massacre.
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C.
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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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.
MG5 general-purpose machine gun
The MG5 general-purpose machine gun is a modern 7.62×51mm NATO belt-fed weapon used by the German military as a standard infantry and vehicle-mounted support gun.
- 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_69bd441adc208190b70a033a0741d01e |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd77c9fc7c8190b165a5cfd5889ba8 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 4:37 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be8a0f90048190998dad99555891c0 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 12:07 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:33 p.m.