Triple

T16654398
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject STS-116 E404688 entity
Predicate missionSpecialist P21471 FINISHED
Object Joan E. Higginbotham
Joan E. Higginbotham is an American electrical engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery and became one of the first African-American women in space.
E1225857 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: Joan E. Higginbotham | Statement: [STS-116, missionSpecialist, Joan E. Higginbotham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joan E. Higginbotham
Context triple: [STS-116, missionSpecialist, Joan E. Higginbotham]
  • A. Dorothy Butler Gilliam
    Dorothy Butler Gilliam is a pioneering American journalist and author who became the first African American female reporter at The Washington Post and a prominent advocate for diversity in the media.
  • B. Clair Engle
    Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from California known for his support of civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  • C. Dr. L. A. Nixon
    Dr. L. A. Nixon was an African American physician and civil rights activist best known for challenging Texas’s racially discriminatory primary election laws in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Nixon v. Condon.
  • D. Fredricka G. Ross
    Fredricka G. Ross is a songwriter best known for co-writing the lyrics to Alicia Keys’ hit ballad “Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down.”
  • E. Lois A. Lewis
    Lois A. Lewis is best known as the widow of pioneering African-American businessman and philanthropist Reginald F. Lewis.
  • 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: Joan E. Higginbotham
Triple: [STS-116, missionSpecialist, Joan E. Higginbotham]
Generated description
Joan E. Higginbotham is an American electrical engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery and became one of the first African-American women in space.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joan E. Higginbotham
Target entity description: Joan E. Higginbotham is an American electrical engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery and became one of the first African-American women in space.
  • A. Dorothy Butler Gilliam
    Dorothy Butler Gilliam is a pioneering American journalist and author who became the first African American female reporter at The Washington Post and a prominent advocate for diversity in the media.
  • B. Clair Engle
    Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from California known for his support of civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  • C. Dr. L. A. Nixon
    Dr. L. A. Nixon was an African American physician and civil rights activist best known for challenging Texas’s racially discriminatory primary election laws in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Nixon v. Condon.
  • D. Fredricka G. Ross
    Fredricka G. Ross is a songwriter best known for co-writing the lyrics to Alicia Keys’ hit ballad “Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down.”
  • E. Lois A. Lewis
    Lois A. Lewis is best known as the widow of pioneering African-American businessman and philanthropist Reginald F. Lewis.
  • 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_69d8838b5fbc81908c6575c132b82e80 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e37bf92de48190aaae3e93039b17f3 completed April 18, 2026, 12:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0084c6bf8c81909b376875ae038e3f completed May 10, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a008558218c8190b0e72356ae52afd2 completed May 10, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a008624706881909e9a265a37eeb3fc completed May 10, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:18 a.m.