Triple

T912673
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject STS-42 E19696 entity
Predicate crewMember P2094 FINISHED
Object Stephen S. Oswald
Stephen S. Oswald is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s.
 E252152 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: Stephen S. Oswald | Statement: [STS-42, crewMember, Stephen S. Oswald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Stephen S. Oswald
Context triple: [STS-42, crewMember, Stephen S. Oswald]
  • A. Barrie M. Osborne
    Barrie M. Osborne is an American film producer best known for his work on large-scale, critically acclaimed epics such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
  • B. John M. Dawson
    John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
  • C. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • D. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • E. Robert G. Bratcher
    Robert G. Bratcher was an American Bible scholar and translator best known as the principal translator of the Good News Bible (Today’s English Version).
  • 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: Stephen S. Oswald
Triple: [STS-42, crewMember, Stephen S. Oswald]
Generated description
Stephen S. Oswald is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Stephen S. Oswald
Target entity description: Stephen S. Oswald is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s.
  • A. Barrie M. Osborne
    Barrie M. Osborne is an American film producer best known for his work on large-scale, critically acclaimed epics such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
  • B. John M. Dawson
    John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
  • C. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • D. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • E. Robert G. Bratcher
    Robert G. Bratcher was an American Bible scholar and translator best known as the principal translator of the Good News Bible (Today’s English Version).
  • 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_69a4939f91a08190ba68c2c81eab90fe completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b2df9ba88190824437026796586f completed March 1, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7eb1ce708190b881655b0813a687 completed March 9, 2026, 8:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7f701cc48190a5ca5320ac15117d completed March 9, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae7ff1fb748190961febf3790f03cf completed March 9, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.