Triple

T10037879
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ronald McNair E205217 entity
Predicate participantIn P149 FINISHED
Object Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B
Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle flight notable for deploying communications satellites and featuring early tests of the Manned Maneuvering Unit for untethered spacewalks.
 E837369 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: Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B | Statement: [Ronald McNair, participantIn, Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B
Context triple: [Ronald McNair, participantIn, Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B]
  • A. Space Shuttle mission STS-51-C
    Space Shuttle mission STS-51-C was a 1985 classified U.S. Department of Defense flight of the orbiter Discovery, notable as the first space mission flown by astronaut Ellison Onizuka.
  • B. Space Shuttle mission STS-51-I
    Space Shuttle mission STS-51-I was a 1985 NASA flight of orbiter Discovery focused on deploying and repairing communications satellites in low Earth orbit.
  • C. Space Shuttle Challenger
    Space Shuttle Challenger was a NASA orbiter best known for its tragic 1986 in-flight breakup shortly after launch, which killed all seven astronauts aboard and profoundly impacted the U.S. space program.
  • D. STS-51L
    STS-51L was the ill-fated 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger mission that ended in disaster shortly after launch, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members and major reforms in NASA’s spaceflight program.
  • E. Space Shuttle Columbia
    Space Shuttle Columbia was NASA’s first operational space shuttle orbiter, notable for pioneering reusable spacecraft missions and tragically disintegrating during reentry on the STS-107 mission in 2003.
  • 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: Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B
Triple: [Ronald McNair, participantIn, Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B]
Generated description
Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle flight notable for deploying communications satellites and featuring early tests of the Manned Maneuvering Unit for untethered spacewalks.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B
Target entity description: Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle flight notable for deploying communications satellites and featuring early tests of the Manned Maneuvering Unit for untethered spacewalks.
  • A. Space Shuttle mission STS-51-C
    Space Shuttle mission STS-51-C was a 1985 classified U.S. Department of Defense flight of the orbiter Discovery, notable as the first space mission flown by astronaut Ellison Onizuka.
  • B. Space Shuttle mission STS-51-I
    Space Shuttle mission STS-51-I was a 1985 NASA flight of orbiter Discovery focused on deploying and repairing communications satellites in low Earth orbit.
  • C. Space Shuttle Challenger
    Space Shuttle Challenger was a NASA orbiter best known for its tragic 1986 in-flight breakup shortly after launch, which killed all seven astronauts aboard and profoundly impacted the U.S. space program.
  • D. STS-51L
    STS-51L was the ill-fated 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger mission that ended in disaster shortly after launch, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members and major reforms in NASA’s spaceflight program.
  • E. Space Shuttle Columbia
    Space Shuttle Columbia was NASA’s first operational space shuttle orbiter, notable for pioneering reusable spacecraft missions and tragically disintegrating during reentry on the STS-107 mission in 2003.
  • 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_69ca834f70e88190b2d74828b7767ec1 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdcede428c8190ae115dc3425f9b0e completed April 2, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d282608d688190832c37442f53099a completed April 5, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2840bb2e881908a7e7a40229769e0 completed April 5, 2026, 3:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2847c9bb881908a6330dfe2c2c1a4 completed April 5, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:55 p.m.