Triple

T249364
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject NASA Space Shuttle program E5108 entity
Predicate component P35 FINISHED
Object External Tank
The External Tank was the large orange-brown fuel tank of NASA’s Space Shuttle, supplying liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to the orbiter’s main engines during launch before being jettisoned to burn up in the atmosphere.
E20037 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: External Tank | Statement: [NASA Space Shuttle program, component, External Tank]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: External Tank
Context triple: [NASA Space Shuttle program, component, External Tank]
  • A. Saturn V
    Saturn V was a powerful American heavy-lift launch vehicle used during the Apollo and Skylab programs to send astronauts and payloads into space, including missions to the Moon.
  • B. Atlas-Centaur
    Atlas-Centaur was an American expendable launch vehicle family that combined an Atlas booster with a high-energy Centaur upper stage to send payloads, including early interplanetary probes, into space.
  • C. Falcon 9 rocket
    The Falcon 9 rocket is a partially reusable, two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed by SpaceX that has revolutionized commercial spaceflight through frequent, cost-effective missions and routine booster landings.
  • D. Space Shuttle Discovery
    Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired NASA orbiter best known for launching the Hubble Space Telescope and conducting numerous key missions in the Space Shuttle program.
  • E. Dragon spacecraft
    The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX’s reusable cargo and crew capsule designed to transport supplies and astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station and other orbital destinations.
  • 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: External Tank
Triple: [NASA Space Shuttle program, component, External Tank]
Generated description
The External Tank was the large orange-brown fuel tank of NASA’s Space Shuttle, supplying liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to the orbiter’s main engines during launch before being jettisoned to burn up in the atmosphere.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: External Tank
Target entity description: The External Tank was the large orange-brown fuel tank of NASA’s Space Shuttle, supplying liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to the orbiter’s main engines during launch before being jettisoned to burn up in the atmosphere.
  • A. Saturn V
    Saturn V was a powerful American heavy-lift launch vehicle used during the Apollo and Skylab programs to send astronauts and payloads into space, including missions to the Moon.
  • B. Atlas-Centaur
    Atlas-Centaur was an American expendable launch vehicle family that combined an Atlas booster with a high-energy Centaur upper stage to send payloads, including early interplanetary probes, into space.
  • C. Falcon 9 rocket
    The Falcon 9 rocket is a partially reusable, two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed by SpaceX that has revolutionized commercial spaceflight through frequent, cost-effective missions and routine booster landings.
  • D. Space Shuttle Discovery chosen
    Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired NASA orbiter best known for launching the Hubble Space Telescope and conducting numerous key missions in the Space Shuttle program.
  • E. Dragon spacecraft
    The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX’s reusable cargo and crew capsule designed to transport supplies and astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station and other orbital destinations.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a257c4bf688190a46ebbf411ab7473 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25d3728f0819086214ccc2db2305a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a37373426881909ce8766ad9c5778c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a373dfb6c0819092ebfe465b7be3c9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3748a9ea4819080b2cea1f1b4afbc completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:54 a.m.