Triple

T1116609
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercury program E11114 entity
Predicate firstHumanInSpaceForUSA P11958 FINISHED
Object Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard was a pioneering NASA astronaut and naval aviator who became the first American in space and later walked on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
E129023 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Alan Shepard | Statement: [Mercury program, firstHumanInSpaceForUSA, Alan Shepard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Shepard
Context triple: [Mercury program, firstHumanInSpaceForUSA, Alan Shepard]
  • A. Neil A. Armstrong
    Neil A. Armstrong was an American astronaut, naval aviator, and aerospace engineer best known as the first person to walk on the Moon during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.
  • B. John Glenn
    John Glenn was a pioneering American astronaut, the first U.S. citizen to orbit Earth, and later a long-serving U.S. senator.
  • C. Frank Borman
    Frank Borman is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known for commanding the historic Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
  • D. Thomas Stafford
    Thomas Stafford is a retired United States Air Force general and NASA astronaut best known for commanding the Apollo 10 mission and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
  • E. Edward White
    Edward White was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known as the first American to conduct a spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission.
  • 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: Alan Shepard
Triple: [Mercury program, firstHumanInSpaceForUSA, Alan Shepard]
Generated description
Alan Shepard was a pioneering NASA astronaut and naval aviator who became the first American in space and later walked on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Shepard
Target entity description: Alan Shepard was a pioneering NASA astronaut and naval aviator who became the first American in space and later walked on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
  • A. Neil A. Armstrong
    Neil A. Armstrong was an American astronaut, naval aviator, and aerospace engineer best known as the first person to walk on the Moon during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.
  • B. John Glenn
    John Glenn was a pioneering American astronaut, the first U.S. citizen to orbit Earth, and later a long-serving U.S. senator.
  • C. Frank Borman
    Frank Borman is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known for commanding the historic Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
  • D. Thomas Stafford
    Thomas Stafford is a retired United States Air Force general and NASA astronaut best known for commanding the Apollo 10 mission and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
  • E. Edward White
    Edward White was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known as the first American to conduct a spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: firstHumanInSpaceForUSA
Context triple: [Mercury program, firstHumanInSpaceForUSA, Alan Shepard]
  • A. firstHumanInSpace chosen
    Indicates that the subject is the first human ever to travel into outer space.
  • B. firstHumanToOrbitEarth
    Indicates that the subject is the first human who successfully completed an orbital flight around Earth.
  • C. firstCrewedMission
    Indicates that the mission is the first instance in which humans were onboard or directly participated as crew.
  • D. firstMannedDescentBy
    Indicates that the subject is the first entity to have carried out a manned descent to the object (such as a location or celestial body).
  • E. firstMannedDescent
    Indicates that the subject entity is the first to have carried humans in a descent to the object entity (such as a location, surface, or depth).
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a4bc4bc21881909dcfe628f59f3e8c completed March 1, 2026, 10:23 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.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a4bb4562f48190831e959f5f309956 completed March 1, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.