Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Viktor Pelevin E522758 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Clay Machine-Gun
The Clay Machine-Gun is a postmodern novel by Russian writer Viktor Pelevin that blends war narrative, Buddhist philosophy, and surreal hallucination to explore the nature of reality and identity.
E1472575 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: The Clay Machine-Gun | Statement: [Viktor Pelevin, notableWork, The Clay Machine-Gun]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Clay Machine-Gun
Context triple: [Viktor Pelevin, notableWork, The Clay Machine-Gun]
  • 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. M712 Schnellfeuer
    The M712 Schnellfeuer is a select-fire, detachable-magazine variant of the Mauser C96 pistol capable of fully automatic fire.
  • C. PKM machine gun
    The PKM machine gun is a Soviet-era, belt-fed 7.62×54mmR general-purpose machine gun widely used around the world for its reliability, durability, and effectiveness in both infantry and vehicle-mounted roles.
  • D. MG3 machine gun
    The MG3 machine gun is a German 7.62×51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun derived from the World War II-era MG 42 and widely used by NATO and other armed forces for decades.
  • E. Lanchester submachine gun
    The Lanchester submachine gun was a British World War II-era firearm, closely based on the German MP 28, used primarily by the Royal Navy and known for its robust construction and reliability.
  • 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: The Clay Machine-Gun
Triple: [Viktor Pelevin, notableWork, The Clay Machine-Gun]
Generated description
The Clay Machine-Gun is a postmodern novel by Russian writer Viktor Pelevin that blends war narrative, Buddhist philosophy, and surreal hallucination to explore the nature of reality and identity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Clay Machine-Gun
Target entity description: The Clay Machine-Gun is a postmodern novel by Russian writer Viktor Pelevin that blends war narrative, Buddhist philosophy, and surreal hallucination to explore the nature of reality and identity.
  • 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. M712 Schnellfeuer
    The M712 Schnellfeuer is a select-fire, detachable-magazine variant of the Mauser C96 pistol capable of fully automatic fire.
  • C. PKM machine gun
    The PKM machine gun is a Soviet-era, belt-fed 7.62×54mmR general-purpose machine gun widely used around the world for its reliability, durability, and effectiveness in both infantry and vehicle-mounted roles.
  • D. MG3 machine gun
    The MG3 machine gun is a German 7.62×51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun derived from the World War II-era MG 42 and widely used by NATO and other armed forces for decades.
  • E. Lanchester submachine gun
    The Lanchester submachine gun was a British World War II-era firearm, closely based on the German MP 28, used primarily by the Royal Navy and known for its robust construction and reliability.
  • 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_69e0b511ed84819099b449b4a111085c completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e7346f762c8190a9f57d9e00d94d28 completed April 21, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a097ed6e6288190a6c0a10338458117 completed May 17, 2026, 8:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a097ff28ed0819081cea66e9ea5eaa2 completed May 17, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0981477234819093bc90f3578ddccf completed May 17, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 3:38 p.m.