Triple

T4861197
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject STS-44 E108662 entity
Predicate payloadSpecialist P21472 FINISHED
Object Thomas J. Hennen
Thomas J. Hennen is a former U.S. Army warrant officer and astronaut who flew as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle, contributing military reconnaissance expertise to space-based observation missions.
 E656775 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: Thomas J. Hennen | Statement: [STS-44, payloadSpecialist, Thomas J. Hennen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas J. Hennen
Context triple: [STS-44, payloadSpecialist, Thomas J. Hennen]
  • A. Charles Rettig
    Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
  • B. Glenn S. Dumke
    Glenn S. Dumke was an American historian and academic administrator best known for leading and expanding the California State University system during his long tenure as its chancellor.
  • C. John G. Schmitz
    John G. Schmitz was a conservative American politician and U.S. Congressman who ran as a third-party presidential candidate in the 1972 election.
  • D. Richard A. Diehl
    Richard A. Diehl is an American archaeologist and Mesoamericanist best known for his influential research on the Olmec civilization and early complex societies in ancient Mexico.
  • E. William R. Schowalter
    William R. Schowalter is an American chemical engineer and fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and transport phenomena.
  • 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: Thomas J. Hennen
Triple: [STS-44, payloadSpecialist, Thomas J. Hennen]
Generated description
Thomas J. Hennen is a former U.S. Army warrant officer and astronaut who flew as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle, contributing military reconnaissance expertise to space-based observation missions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas J. Hennen
Target entity description: Thomas J. Hennen is a former U.S. Army warrant officer and astronaut who flew as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle, contributing military reconnaissance expertise to space-based observation missions.
  • A. Charles Rettig
    Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
  • B. Glenn S. Dumke
    Glenn S. Dumke was an American historian and academic administrator best known for leading and expanding the California State University system during his long tenure as its chancellor.
  • C. John G. Schmitz
    John G. Schmitz was a conservative American politician and U.S. Congressman who ran as a third-party presidential candidate in the 1972 election.
  • D. Richard A. Diehl
    Richard A. Diehl is an American archaeologist and Mesoamericanist best known for his influential research on the Olmec civilization and early complex societies in ancient Mexico.
  • E. William R. Schowalter
    William R. Schowalter is an American chemical engineer and fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and transport phenomena.
  • 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_69bd440b965081908b0557721cae6338 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d5e247c8190b6ae4e9b529f0345 completed March 20, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7eea9112c8190b0f0040afbf916ce completed March 28, 2026, 3:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7ef6cf4208190b6242aaea1e20b8e completed March 28, 2026, 3:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7f01543e8819082bf2dfd49d8fb28 completed March 28, 2026, 3:13 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.