Triple

T709680
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Life-Saving Service E14177 entity
Predicate usedEquipment P2728 FINISHED
Object Lyle gun
The Lyle gun is a small, line-throwing cannon historically used in maritime rescue operations to fire a rope to ships in distress from shore.
E84481 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: Lyle gun | Statement: [United States Life-Saving Service, usedEquipment, Lyle gun]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lyle gun
Context triple: [United States Life-Saving Service, usedEquipment, Lyle gun]
  • A. Beryl assault rifle
    The Beryl assault rifle is a Polish-designed 5.56×45mm NATO service rifle widely used as the primary infantry weapon of Poland’s armed forces.
  • B. Samaritan revolver
    The Samaritan revolver is Hellboy’s iconic oversized, mystical handgun known for firing powerful, supernatural ammunition against occult threats.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Derringer pistol
    The Derringer pistol is a small, easily concealed single-shot handgun historically infamous as the type of weapon used to kill U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
  • E. Type 99 rifle
    The Type 99 rifle was a World War II-era Japanese bolt-action military rifle known for its robust design, use of 7.7×58mm ammunition, and service as a standard infantry weapon in the later years of the war.
  • 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: Lyle gun
Triple: [United States Life-Saving Service, usedEquipment, Lyle gun]
Generated description
The Lyle gun is a small, line-throwing cannon historically used in maritime rescue operations to fire a rope to ships in distress from shore.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lyle gun
Target entity description: The Lyle gun is a small, line-throwing cannon historically used in maritime rescue operations to fire a rope to ships in distress from shore.
  • A. Beryl assault rifle
    The Beryl assault rifle is a Polish-designed 5.56×45mm NATO service rifle widely used as the primary infantry weapon of Poland’s armed forces.
  • B. Samaritan revolver
    The Samaritan revolver is Hellboy’s iconic oversized, mystical handgun known for firing powerful, supernatural ammunition against occult threats.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Derringer pistol
    The Derringer pistol is a small, easily concealed single-shot handgun historically infamous as the type of weapon used to kill U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
  • E. Type 99 rifle
    The Type 99 rifle was a World War II-era Japanese bolt-action military rifle known for its robust design, use of 7.7×58mm ammunition, and service as a standard infantry weapon in the later years of the war.
  • 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_69a493494ec48190ae6751683625a9ba completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a55b63988190837e71fcdf3e39a6 completed March 1, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5dcb3452c8190a150b4a182807813 completed March 2, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5dfca43a08190b3e8a13284163822 completed March 2, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5ff271e288190a9932832609c3c3d completed March 2, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.