Triple

T1116607
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercury program E11114 entity
Predicate firstCrewedFlight P2088 FINISHED
Object Mercury-Redstone 3
Mercury-Redstone 3 was the 1961 NASA mission that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight, marking a major early milestone in human space exploration.
E129022 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: Mercury-Redstone 3 | Statement: [Mercury program, firstCrewedFlight, Mercury-Redstone 3]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury-Redstone 3
Context triple: [Mercury program, firstCrewedFlight, Mercury-Redstone 3]
  • A. Gemini 3
    Gemini 3 was NASA’s first crewed Gemini spacecraft mission, flown in 1965 by astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young to test orbital maneuvering and spacecraft systems for future spaceflights.
  • B. Gemini 11
    Gemini 11 was a 1966 NASA crewed spaceflight that advanced orbital rendezvous, docking, and high-altitude operations as part of the Gemini program’s preparation for Apollo lunar missions.
  • C. Gemini 4
    Gemini 4 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight best known for carrying out the first American spacewalk during the Gemini program.
  • D. Mercury program
    The Mercury program was the United States' first human spaceflight initiative, designed to send American astronauts into space and orbit Earth during the early 1960s.
  • E. Gemini 5
    Gemini 5 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight that set a then-record for longest human space mission, demonstrating key endurance and rendezvous technologies for the Apollo program.
  • 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: Mercury-Redstone 3
Triple: [Mercury program, firstCrewedFlight, Mercury-Redstone 3]
Generated description
Mercury-Redstone 3 was the 1961 NASA mission that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight, marking a major early milestone in human space exploration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury-Redstone 3
Target entity description: Mercury-Redstone 3 was the 1961 NASA mission that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight, marking a major early milestone in human space exploration.
  • A. Gemini 3
    Gemini 3 was NASA’s first crewed Gemini spacecraft mission, flown in 1965 by astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young to test orbital maneuvering and spacecraft systems for future spaceflights.
  • B. Gemini 11
    Gemini 11 was a 1966 NASA crewed spaceflight that advanced orbital rendezvous, docking, and high-altitude operations as part of the Gemini program’s preparation for Apollo lunar missions.
  • C. Gemini 4
    Gemini 4 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight best known for carrying out the first American spacewalk during the Gemini program.
  • D. Mercury program
    The Mercury program was the United States' first human spaceflight initiative, designed to send American astronauts into space and orbit Earth during the early 1960s.
  • E. Gemini 5
    Gemini 5 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight that set a then-record for longest human space mission, demonstrating key endurance and rendezvous technologies for the Apollo program.
  • 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_69a493252a648190ac48f8742474a5e8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bba2b550819081f8a100638d2fba completed March 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac53999b3c8190aff1cf84a3c16909 completed March 7, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac554aec048190821801070d1a4852 completed March 7, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac55afd8c88190b0f2bbafc33ad8b7 completed March 7, 2026, 4:43 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.