Triple

T5817500
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercury-Redstone 3 E129022 entity
Predicate capsuleSerialNumber P67129 FINISHED
Object Mercury spacecraft No. 7
Mercury spacecraft No. 7 was the crewed space capsule used for NASA’s Mercury-Redstone 3 mission, which carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American human spaceflight.
E548696 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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 No. 7 | Statement: [Mercury-Redstone 3, capsuleSerialNumber, Mercury spacecraft No. 7]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury spacecraft No. 7
Context triple: [Mercury-Redstone 3, capsuleSerialNumber, Mercury spacecraft No. 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. Mercury-Redstone 2
    Mercury-Redstone 2 was a 1961 NASA suborbital test flight of the Mercury program that carried the chimpanzee Ham to space to evaluate spacecraft systems and life-support ahead of human missions.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7
    Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 was the capsule that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight in 1961.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 No. 7
Triple: [Mercury-Redstone 3, capsuleSerialNumber, Mercury spacecraft No. 7]
Generated description
Mercury spacecraft No. 7 was the crewed space capsule used for NASA’s Mercury-Redstone 3 mission, which carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American human spaceflight.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury spacecraft No. 7
Target entity description: Mercury spacecraft No. 7 was the crewed space capsule used for NASA’s Mercury-Redstone 3 mission, which carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American human spaceflight.
  • 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. Mercury-Redstone 2
    Mercury-Redstone 2 was a 1961 NASA suborbital test flight of the Mercury program that carried the chimpanzee Ham to space to evaluate spacecraft systems and life-support ahead of human missions.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 chosen
    Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 was the capsule that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight in 1961.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: capsuleSerialNumber
Context triple: [Mercury-Redstone 3, capsuleSerialNumber, Mercury spacecraft No. 7]
  • A. serialNumber
    Indicates a unique identifying code assigned to an individual item or instance within a series or batch.
  • B. capsule
    Indicates that one entity is a capsule containing, enclosing, or encapsulating another entity.
  • C. spacecraftSerialNumber
    Indicates the unique identifying serial number assigned to a specific spacecraft.
  • D. serialNumberColor
    Indicates a relationship where a specific serial number is associated with a particular color.
  • E. numberOfCapsules
    Indicates the quantity or count of capsules associated with an entity or event.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69c0400f1af881908d376ea4793f6dea completed March 22, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0b0e20c208190b861fa8066852efc completed March 23, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0b49e1c008190b503d76e0c9397d3 completed March 23, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0b4f3ec388190b742449beccf82ef completed March 23, 2026, 3:35 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c0333fdd7081908d829265caa2ac11 completed March 22, 2026, 6:21 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69c0400dbec08190b2ef73689b2c0c31 completed March 22, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:53 p.m.