Triple

T5817481
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercury-Redstone 3 E129022 entity
Predicate spacecraft P4019 FINISHED
Object Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7
Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 was the capsule that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight in 1961.
E548696 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: Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 | Statement: [Mercury-Redstone 3, spacecraft, Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7
Context triple: [Mercury-Redstone 3, spacecraft, Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7]
  • A. Mercury spacecraft
    The Mercury spacecraft was NASA’s first crewed space vehicle, designed in the early 1960s to carry a single astronaut into Earth orbit and safely return them, paving the way for later Gemini and Apollo missions.
  • B. Friendship 7
    Friendship 7 was the Mercury spacecraft in which astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
  • C. Gemini spacecraft
    The Gemini spacecraft was NASA’s two-person capsule used in the mid-1960s to develop critical spaceflight techniques such as orbital rendezvous, docking, and extended missions in preparation for the Apollo Moon landings.
  • D. Mercury-Atlas 7
    Mercury-Atlas 7 was a 1962 NASA crewed spaceflight that carried astronaut Scott Carpenter into Earth orbit as part of Project Mercury, advancing the United States’ early human spaceflight efforts.
  • E. Mercury-Redstone 4
    Mercury-Redstone 4 was NASA’s second crewed Mercury mission, which carried astronaut Gus Grissom on a suborbital flight in 1961 and is known for the premature hatch blow that led to the loss of the Liberty Bell 7 capsule.
  • 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: Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7
Triple: [Mercury-Redstone 3, spacecraft, Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7]
Generated description
Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 was the capsule that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight in 1961.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7
Target entity description: Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 was the capsule that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight in 1961.
  • A. Mercury spacecraft
    The Mercury spacecraft was NASA’s first crewed space vehicle, designed in the early 1960s to carry a single astronaut into Earth orbit and safely return them, paving the way for later Gemini and Apollo missions.
  • B. Friendship 7
    Friendship 7 was the Mercury spacecraft in which astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
  • C. Gemini spacecraft
    The Gemini spacecraft was NASA’s two-person capsule used in the mid-1960s to develop critical spaceflight techniques such as orbital rendezvous, docking, and extended missions in preparation for the Apollo Moon landings.
  • D. Mercury-Atlas 7
    Mercury-Atlas 7 was a 1962 NASA crewed spaceflight that carried astronaut Scott Carpenter into Earth orbit as part of Project Mercury, advancing the United States’ early human spaceflight efforts.
  • E. Mercury-Redstone 4
    Mercury-Redstone 4 was NASA’s second crewed Mercury mission, which carried astronaut Gus Grissom on a suborbital flight in 1961 and is known for the premature hatch blow that led to the loss of the Liberty Bell 7 capsule.
  • 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_69c0084869e881908d7859492183ca7b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c033e36cbc81908f1ef1a1a310674c completed March 22, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c098504c68819089eff37ea1fa0979 completed March 23, 2026, 1:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c098d936d081909d930fc8b6b3fd67 completed March 23, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c09947c5fc8190ba279ed0f991f9a9 completed March 23, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:53 p.m.