Triple

T6214596
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercury-Atlas 8 E138953 entity
Predicate spacecraft P4019 FINISHED
Object Mercury spacecraft Sigma 7
Mercury spacecraft Sigma 7 was the crewed capsule flown by astronaut Wally Schirra on NASA’s Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, a 1962 Earth-orbital flight focused on engineering tests and spacecraft performance.
E574796 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 Sigma 7 | Statement: [Mercury-Atlas 8, spacecraft, Mercury spacecraft Sigma 7]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury spacecraft Sigma 7
Context triple: [Mercury-Atlas 8, spacecraft, Mercury spacecraft Sigma 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. 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.
  • C. Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7
    Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 was the capsule that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight in 1961.
  • D. Friendship 7
    Friendship 7 was the Mercury spacecraft in which astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
  • E. Gemini 6A
    Gemini 6A was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight that achieved the first successful rendezvous between two orbiting spacecraft during the Gemini program.
  • 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 Sigma 7
Triple: [Mercury-Atlas 8, spacecraft, Mercury spacecraft Sigma 7]
Generated description
Mercury spacecraft Sigma 7 was the crewed capsule flown by astronaut Wally Schirra on NASA’s Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, a 1962 Earth-orbital flight focused on engineering tests and spacecraft performance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury spacecraft Sigma 7
Target entity description: Mercury spacecraft Sigma 7 was the crewed capsule flown by astronaut Wally Schirra on NASA’s Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, a 1962 Earth-orbital flight focused on engineering tests and spacecraft performance.
  • 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. 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.
  • C. Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7
    Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 was the capsule that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight in 1961.
  • D. Friendship 7
    Friendship 7 was the Mercury spacecraft in which astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
  • E. Gemini 6A
    Gemini 6A was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight that achieved the first successful rendezvous between two orbiting spacecraft during the Gemini program.
  • 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_69c008ada364819096c9e92c74d639b5 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0629fd3c08190a121097c188417c4 completed March 22, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c16f61ed708190a034136cc270e9d0 completed March 23, 2026, 4:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1bfb484ac8190903efdf4a18f3a1c completed March 23, 2026, 10:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c1c03551008190af5e3427b4cdcd11 completed March 23, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:21 p.m.