Triple

T17635661
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Machine Gun Corps E430085 entity
Predicate recruitmentFrom P4145 FINISHED
Object Motor Machine Gun Service
The Motor Machine Gun Service was a British First World War unit composed of motorized machine-gun batteries that later formed part of the Machine Gun Corps.
E1278946 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: Motor Machine Gun Service | Statement: [Machine Gun Corps, recruitmentFrom, Motor Machine Gun Service]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Motor Machine Gun Service
Context triple: [Machine Gun Corps, recruitmentFrom, Motor Machine Gun Service]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. M3 submachine gun
    The M3 submachine gun, commonly called the "Grease Gun," is a compact .45 ACP American submachine gun widely used by U.S. forces during and after World War II.
  • E. U.S. Ordnance
    U.S. Ordnance is an American firearms manufacturer known for producing and supporting military-grade weapons systems such as the M60 machine gun.
  • 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: Motor Machine Gun Service
Triple: [Machine Gun Corps, recruitmentFrom, Motor Machine Gun Service]
Generated description
The Motor Machine Gun Service was a British First World War unit composed of motorized machine-gun batteries that later formed part of the Machine Gun Corps.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Motor Machine Gun Service
Target entity description: The Motor Machine Gun Service was a British First World War unit composed of motorized machine-gun batteries that later formed part of the Machine Gun Corps.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. M3 submachine gun
    The M3 submachine gun, commonly called the "Grease Gun," is a compact .45 ACP American submachine gun widely used by U.S. forces during and after World War II.
  • E. U.S. Ordnance
    U.S. Ordnance is an American firearms manufacturer known for producing and supporting military-grade weapons systems such as the M60 machine gun.
  • 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_69d889e37f308190a6aa0a69daff86c7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e46de0ad988190b1a2c0bff69eb9f1 completed April 19, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a020aa1d3588190a0ed980338316770 completed May 11, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a020b906b848190a2ff2dd7548809a4 completed May 11, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a020c2ee784819082c0bbf09c12813b completed May 11, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:52 a.m.