Triple

T4065578
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject H-IIA launch vehicle E86314 entity
Predicate launchesNotablePayload P53878 FINISHED
Object Ikaros solar sail
The Ikaros solar sail is a Japanese experimental spacecraft that demonstrated the first successful use of solar sail propulsion for interplanetary travel.
E410449 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: Ikaros solar sail | Statement: [H-IIA launch vehicle, launchesNotablePayload, Ikaros solar sail]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ikaros solar sail
Context triple: [H-IIA launch vehicle, launchesNotablePayload, Ikaros solar sail]
  • A. Project Orion (nuclear pulse propulsion)
    Project Orion (nuclear pulse propulsion) was a mid-20th-century concept for an interplanetary and interstellar spacecraft propelled by the controlled detonation of nuclear explosives behind a massive pusher plate.
  • B. Cygnus spacecraft
    The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
  • C. Nomad space probe
    The Nomad space probe is a fictional, highly advanced robotic spacecraft from the Star Trek universe that becomes a powerful and dangerous hybrid entity after merging with an alien probe.
  • D. LightSail 2
    LightSail 2 is a small experimental spacecraft developed by The Planetary Society to demonstrate controlled solar sail propulsion in Earth orbit.
  • E. spacecraft Icarus II
    Spacecraft Icarus II is the fictional solar-bomb delivery vessel at the center of the 2007 science fiction film "Sunshine," tasked with reigniting a dying Sun.
  • 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: Ikaros solar sail
Triple: [H-IIA launch vehicle, launchesNotablePayload, Ikaros solar sail]
Generated description
The Ikaros solar sail is a Japanese experimental spacecraft that demonstrated the first successful use of solar sail propulsion for interplanetary travel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ikaros solar sail
Target entity description: The Ikaros solar sail is a Japanese experimental spacecraft that demonstrated the first successful use of solar sail propulsion for interplanetary travel.
  • A. Project Orion (nuclear pulse propulsion)
    Project Orion (nuclear pulse propulsion) was a mid-20th-century concept for an interplanetary and interstellar spacecraft propelled by the controlled detonation of nuclear explosives behind a massive pusher plate.
  • B. Cygnus spacecraft
    The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
  • C. Nomad space probe
    The Nomad space probe is a fictional, highly advanced robotic spacecraft from the Star Trek universe that becomes a powerful and dangerous hybrid entity after merging with an alien probe.
  • D. LightSail 2
    LightSail 2 is a small experimental spacecraft developed by The Planetary Society to demonstrate controlled solar sail propulsion in Earth orbit.
  • E. spacecraft Icarus II
    Spacecraft Icarus II is the fictional solar-bomb delivery vessel at the center of the 2007 science fiction film "Sunshine," tasked with reigniting a dying Sun.
  • 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_69aed93c69208190a4efac0efe3cd69b completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af01994b0c8190b34af36acadad5c6 completed March 9, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b562b17c888190ac4771f2bb4f0d58 completed March 14, 2026, 1:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5637e72948190989169b0a46916a8 completed March 14, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b563fc4cb081908ba0f1a799338a8c completed March 14, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:38 p.m.