Triple

T2169260
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Apollo 17 E46983 entity
Predicate backupCommander P26370 FINISHED
Object John W. Young
John W. Young was a NASA astronaut, naval officer, and test pilot who flew on six space missions, walked on the Moon during Apollo 16, and later commanded the first Space Shuttle flight.
E254571 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: John W. Young | Statement: [Apollo 17, backupCommander, John W. Young]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John W. Young
Context triple: [Apollo 17, backupCommander, John W. Young]
  • A. John Young
    John Young was an early American pioneer and land developer best known for founding and giving his name to the city of Youngstown, Ohio.
  • B. Deke Slayton
    Deke Slayton was one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts who later became the agency’s first Chief of the Astronaut Office and eventually flew in space on the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
  • C. Fred Haise
    Fred Haise is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the lunar module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
  • D. Joe Engle
    Joe Engle is an American astronaut and test pilot best known for flying the X-15 rocket plane and commanding early Space Shuttle missions.
  • E. Vance D. Brand
    Vance D. Brand is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and served as command module pilot on the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
  • 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: John W. Young
Triple: [Apollo 17, backupCommander, John W. Young]
Generated description
John W. Young was a NASA astronaut, naval officer, and test pilot who flew on six space missions, walked on the Moon during Apollo 16, and later commanded the first Space Shuttle flight.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John W. Young
Target entity description: John W. Young was a NASA astronaut, naval officer, and test pilot who flew on six space missions, walked on the Moon during Apollo 16, and later commanded the first Space Shuttle flight.
  • A. John Young
    John Young was an early American pioneer and land developer best known for founding and giving his name to the city of Youngstown, Ohio.
  • B. Deke Slayton
    Deke Slayton was one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts who later became the agency’s first Chief of the Astronaut Office and eventually flew in space on the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
  • C. Fred Haise
    Fred Haise is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the lunar module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
  • D. Joe Engle
    Joe Engle is an American astronaut and test pilot best known for flying the X-15 rocket plane and commanding early Space Shuttle missions.
  • E. Vance D. Brand
    Vance D. Brand is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and served as command module pilot on the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
  • 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_69a88a184cbc8190877791f6552c2484 completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbeadaed481908d6afa942d7155b8 completed March 7, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae893ec6248190900ff61f5f3778ce completed March 9, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae89bd5c388190ad13a9682a08bba8 completed March 9, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8a1ca8848190b265cf0a8c5b909f completed March 9, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:45 p.m.