Triple
T4080353
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | LC-18A |
E87462
|
entity |
| Predicate | usedByProgram |
P44502
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Vanguard program |
E90687
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Vanguard program | Statement: [LC-18A, usedByProgram, Vanguard program]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vanguard program Context triple: [LC-18A, usedByProgram, Vanguard program]
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A.
Vanguard program
chosen
The Vanguard program was an early U.S. Navy–run satellite project during the Cold War that aimed to launch some of the first American satellites into Earth orbit as part of the International Geophysical Year.
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B.
Phoenix Program
The Phoenix Program was a controversial covert counterinsurgency and intelligence operation run by the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War, aimed at identifying, capturing, or eliminating Viet Cong infrastructure.
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C.
Pioneer program
The Pioneer program was a series of early NASA space missions that sent robotic probes to study the outer planets and the outer regions of the Solar System, including the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt and make direct observations of Jupiter and Saturn.
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D.
Helios program
The Helios program was a joint NASA–German Aerospace Center mission in the 1970s that launched two probes to study the Sun at close range, setting records for both solar proximity and spacecraft speed.
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E.
Vanguard 2
Vanguard 2 is an early American Earth-orbiting satellite, launched in 1959 to measure cloud cover and improve understanding of Earth’s weather and atmospheric conditions.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69aed9435cf48190ad1da737c962d19d |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aefc5204d881909829de15015aa50d |
completed | March 9, 2026, 4:58 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b562c0ecb48190b3def058eaf49dd3 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 1:29 p.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:39 p.m.