Triple

T1116611
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercury program E11114 entity
Predicate spacecraftType P4019 FINISHED
Object Mercury spacecraft
The Mercury spacecraft was NASA’s first crewed space vehicle, designed in the early 1960s to carry a single astronaut into Earth orbit and safely return them, paving the way for later Gemini and Apollo missions.
E131451 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 spacecraft | Statement: [Mercury program, spacecraftType, Mercury spacecraft]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury spacecraft
Context triple: [Mercury program, spacecraftType, Mercury spacecraft]
  • A. Orion spacecraft
    The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
  • B. Magellan spacecraft
    The Magellan spacecraft was a NASA robotic probe launched in 1989 that used radar mapping to produce the first detailed global images of the surface of Venus.
  • C. Cygnus spacecraft
    The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
  • D. Explorer 1
    Explorer 1 was the first successful United States satellite, launched in 1958 and notable for discovering the Van Allen radiation belts.
  • E. ATV spacecraft
    The ATV spacecraft was an automated European cargo vehicle designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station.
  • 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 spacecraft
Triple: [Mercury program, spacecraftType, Mercury spacecraft]
Generated description
The Mercury spacecraft was NASA’s first crewed space vehicle, designed in the early 1960s to carry a single astronaut into Earth orbit and safely return them, paving the way for later Gemini and Apollo missions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury spacecraft
Target entity description: The Mercury spacecraft was NASA’s first crewed space vehicle, designed in the early 1960s to carry a single astronaut into Earth orbit and safely return them, paving the way for later Gemini and Apollo missions.
  • A. Orion spacecraft
    The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
  • B. Magellan spacecraft
    The Magellan spacecraft was a NASA robotic probe launched in 1989 that used radar mapping to produce the first detailed global images of the surface of Venus.
  • C. Cygnus spacecraft
    The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
  • D. Explorer 1
    Explorer 1 was the first successful United States satellite, launched in 1958 and notable for discovering the Van Allen radiation belts.
  • E. ATV spacecraft
    The ATV spacecraft was an automated European cargo vehicle designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station.
  • 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_69ac5ea8abe081908a6f38cb78638740 completed March 7, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5f248db081908596810839ee6160 completed March 7, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5fb242488190bf99f63956aeda13 completed March 7, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.