Triple
T23252889
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Donald "Deke" Slayton |
E581781
|
entity |
| Predicate | spaceProgram |
P1426
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Project Mercury |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Project Mercury | Statement: [Donald "Deke" Slayton, spaceProgram, Project Mercury]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Project Mercury Context triple: [Donald "Deke" Slayton, spaceProgram, Project Mercury]
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A.
Mercury program
chosen
The Mercury program was the United States' first human spaceflight initiative, designed to send American astronauts into space and orbit Earth during the early 1960s.
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B.
Gemini program
The Gemini program was NASA’s second human spaceflight project in the 1960s, designed to develop critical space travel techniques such as orbital rendezvous, docking, and long-duration missions that paved the way for the Apollo Moon landings.
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C.
Orion program
The Orion program is NASA’s crewed spacecraft initiative designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit to destinations such as the Moon and eventually Mars.
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D.
Mercury-Redstone missions
The Mercury-Redstone missions were early U.S. crewed suborbital spaceflights that marked NASA’s first steps in sending American astronauts into space during Project Mercury.
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E.
Saturn program
The Saturn program was a series of powerful American launch vehicles developed by NASA in the 1960s, most notably the Saturn V rocket that enabled the Apollo Moon landings.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69e24606b17c81908aba1a4911c8a8ba |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:39 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f193f840dc819098e52272abefe616 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 5:15 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:11 p.m.