Triple

T310172
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Space Shuttle Challenger disaster E6388 entity
Predicate crewMember P2094 FINISHED
Object Francis R. Scobee
Francis R. Scobee was a United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s final mission, STS-51-L.
E40504 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: Francis R. Scobee | Statement: [Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, crewMember, Francis R. Scobee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis R. Scobee
Context triple: [Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, crewMember, Francis R. Scobee]
  • A. Buzz Aldrin
    Buzz Aldrin is an American astronaut and engineer who served as the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11 and became one of the first two humans to walk on the Moon.
  • B. Neil A. Armstrong
    Neil A. Armstrong was an American astronaut, naval aviator, and aerospace engineer best known as the first person to walk on the Moon during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.
  • C. Don Walsh
    Don Walsh is an American oceanographer and former U.S. Navy officer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
  • D. Joseph Vilsmaier
    Joseph Vilsmaier was a German film director and cinematographer known for his historical and war dramas, including the World War II film "Stalingrad."
  • E. Morton Thiokol
    Morton Thiokol was an American aerospace and defense contractor best known for manufacturing the solid rocket boosters involved in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • 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: Francis R. Scobee
Triple: [Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, crewMember, Francis R. Scobee]
Generated description
Francis R. Scobee was a United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s final mission, STS-51-L.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis R. Scobee
Target entity description: Francis R. Scobee was a United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s final mission, STS-51-L.
  • A. Buzz Aldrin
    Buzz Aldrin is an American astronaut and engineer who served as the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11 and became one of the first two humans to walk on the Moon.
  • B. Neil A. Armstrong
    Neil A. Armstrong was an American astronaut, naval aviator, and aerospace engineer best known as the first person to walk on the Moon during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.
  • C. Don Walsh
    Don Walsh is an American oceanographer and former U.S. Navy officer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
  • D. Joseph Vilsmaier
    Joseph Vilsmaier was a German film director and cinematographer known for his historical and war dramas, including the World War II film "Stalingrad."
  • E. Morton Thiokol
    Morton Thiokol was an American aerospace and defense contractor best known for manufacturing the solid rocket boosters involved in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • 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_69a2e79230508190b912ecb555aae17e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ea4778cc8190be7b648a82542891 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3c417a34c81909b724ecabf38ccb3 completed March 1, 2026, 4:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3c4a50d0c819086ab22f9a46b953a completed March 1, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3c530f6a48190aeb056a38e417313 completed March 1, 2026, 4:48 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.