Triple

T11427061
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject STS-41 E270778 entity
Predicate missionSpecialist P21471 FINISHED
Object William M. Shepherd — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: William M. Shepherd | Statement: [STS-41, missionSpecialist, William M. Shepherd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William M. Shepherd
Context triple: [STS-41, missionSpecialist, William M. Shepherd]
  • A. Arthur B. Sleigh
    Arthur B. Sleigh was a 19th-century British Army officer and journalist best known for establishing the influential London newspaper that became The Daily Telegraph.
  • B. William S. Benson
    William S. Benson was a U.S. Navy admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Operations during World War I.
  • C. William S. Devery
    William S. Devery was a former New York City police chief and Tammany Hall figure who became one of the original co-owners of the franchise that evolved into the New York Yankees.
  • D. Hobart B. Bigelow
    Hobart B. Bigelow was an American industrialist and politician who served as the 50th governor of Connecticut in the early 1880s.
  • E. Melville M. Bigelow
    Melville M. Bigelow was an influential American legal scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for his pioneering work in tort law and legal history.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William M. Shepherd
Target entity description: William M. Shepherd is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL and NASA astronaut best known for commanding the first crew of the International Space Station.
  • A. Arthur B. Sleigh
    Arthur B. Sleigh was a 19th-century British Army officer and journalist best known for establishing the influential London newspaper that became The Daily Telegraph.
  • B. William S. Benson
    William S. Benson was a U.S. Navy admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Operations during World War I.
  • C. William S. Devery
    William S. Devery was a former New York City police chief and Tammany Hall figure who became one of the original co-owners of the franchise that evolved into the New York Yankees.
  • D. Hobart B. Bigelow
    Hobart B. Bigelow was an American industrialist and politician who served as the 50th governor of Connecticut in the early 1880s.
  • E. Melville M. Bigelow
    Melville M. Bigelow was an influential American legal scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for his pioneering work in tort law and legal history.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d6aadeef688190874bcecd88b3dd9b completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d806c000b88190bfaa646b2dc424b7 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.