Triple

T10038127
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ronald McNair E205223 entity
Predicate causeOfDeath P144 FINISHED
Object Space Shuttle Challenger disaster E6388 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: Space Shuttle Challenger disaster | Statement: [Ronald McNair, causeOfDeath, Space Shuttle Challenger disaster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
Context triple: [Ronald McNair, causeOfDeath, Space Shuttle Challenger disaster]
  • A. Space Shuttle Challenger disaster chosen
    The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was the 1986 launch failure in which NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after liftoff, killing all seven crew members and prompting major reforms in the U.S. space program.
  • B. Columbia disaster
    The Columbia disaster was the 2003 Space Shuttle tragedy in which the orbiter Columbia broke apart during reentry, killing all seven astronauts aboard and leading to major changes in NASA’s human spaceflight program.
  • 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.
  • 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_69ca834f70e88190b2d74828b7767ec1 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdcee04afc8190904704d66e23a432 completed April 2, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d317367204819097d3ed6a72a0f8b5 completed April 6, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:55 p.m.