Triple

T17288617
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercury-Redstone rocket E419721 entity
Predicate firstFlightMission P12519 FINISHED
Object Mercury-Redstone 1A
Mercury-Redstone 1A was an uncrewed 1960 NASA suborbital test flight in the Mercury program, conducted to validate the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle and spacecraft systems after the partial failure of the earlier Mercury-Redstone 1 mission.
E1260136 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 1A | Statement: [Mercury-Redstone rocket, firstFlightMission, Mercury-Redstone 1A]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury-Redstone 1A
Context triple: [Mercury-Redstone rocket, firstFlightMission, Mercury-Redstone 1A]
  • A. Mercury-Redstone 2
    Mercury-Redstone 2 was a 1961 NASA suborbital test flight of the Mercury program that carried the chimpanzee Ham to space to evaluate spacecraft systems and life-support ahead of human missions.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Mercury-Redstone 4
    Mercury-Redstone 4 was NASA’s second crewed Mercury mission, which carried astronaut Gus Grissom on a suborbital flight in 1961 and is known for the premature hatch blow that led to the loss of the Liberty Bell 7 capsule.
  • D. Mercury-Redstone rocket
    The Mercury-Redstone rocket was an early American launch vehicle used by NASA to send the first U.S. astronauts on suborbital spaceflights during Project Mercury.
  • E. Mercury-Atlas 6
    Mercury-Atlas 6 was the 1962 NASA mission that carried astronaut John Glenn on the first American crewed orbital flight around Earth.
  • 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 1A
Triple: [Mercury-Redstone rocket, firstFlightMission, Mercury-Redstone 1A]
Generated description
Mercury-Redstone 1A was an uncrewed 1960 NASA suborbital test flight in the Mercury program, conducted to validate the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle and spacecraft systems after the partial failure of the earlier Mercury-Redstone 1 mission.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury-Redstone 1A
Target entity description: Mercury-Redstone 1A was an uncrewed 1960 NASA suborbital test flight in the Mercury program, conducted to validate the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle and spacecraft systems after the partial failure of the earlier Mercury-Redstone 1 mission.
  • A. Mercury-Redstone 2
    Mercury-Redstone 2 was a 1961 NASA suborbital test flight of the Mercury program that carried the chimpanzee Ham to space to evaluate spacecraft systems and life-support ahead of human missions.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Mercury-Redstone 4
    Mercury-Redstone 4 was NASA’s second crewed Mercury mission, which carried astronaut Gus Grissom on a suborbital flight in 1961 and is known for the premature hatch blow that led to the loss of the Liberty Bell 7 capsule.
  • D. Mercury-Redstone rocket
    The Mercury-Redstone rocket was an early American launch vehicle used by NASA to send the first U.S. astronauts on suborbital spaceflights during Project Mercury.
  • E. Mercury-Atlas 6
    Mercury-Atlas 6 was the 1962 NASA mission that carried astronaut John Glenn on the first American crewed orbital flight around Earth.
  • 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_69d886db32608190a61e18862c5a8af6 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e43781b7808190a0528ee9c54a0c66 completed April 19, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a017957c738819087341bcd51b55114 completed May 11, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0179f16af481909f409adb5367f021 completed May 11, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a017ad8480881909ca9a9982585b08d completed May 11, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:40 a.m.