Triple

T912678
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject STS-42 E19696 entity
Predicate crewMember P2094 FINISHED
Object Ulf Merbold
Ulf Merbold is a German physicist and astronaut who became the first West German citizen to fly in space and flew on multiple Space Shuttle and Spacelab missions.
 E108661 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: Ulf Merbold | Statement: [STS-42, crewMember, Ulf Merbold]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ulf Merbold
Context triple: [STS-42, crewMember, Ulf Merbold]
  • A. Hans-Jürgen Stumpff
    Hans-Jürgen Stumpff was a German Luftwaffe general during World War II who served as one of the senior military officers signing Germany’s unconditional surrender in 1945.
  • B. Joseph Vilsmaier
    Joseph Vilsmaier was a German film director and cinematographer known for his historical and war dramas, including the World War II film "Stalingrad."
  • C. Gerd Arntz
    Gerd Arntz was a German graphic designer and artist best known for creating the iconic pictograms and visual symbols used in the Isotype system of information design.
  • D. Detlev W. Bronk
    Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
  • E. John David Stier
    John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
  • 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: Ulf Merbold
Triple: [STS-42, crewMember, Ulf Merbold]
Generated description
Ulf Merbold is a German physicist and astronaut who became the first West German citizen to fly in space and flew on multiple Space Shuttle and Spacelab missions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ulf Merbold
Target entity description: Ulf Merbold is a German physicist and astronaut who became the first West German citizen to fly in space and flew on multiple Space Shuttle and Spacelab missions.
  • A. Hans-Jürgen Stumpff
    Hans-Jürgen Stumpff was a German Luftwaffe general during World War II who served as one of the senior military officers signing Germany’s unconditional surrender in 1945.
  • B. Joseph Vilsmaier
    Joseph Vilsmaier was a German film director and cinematographer known for his historical and war dramas, including the World War II film "Stalingrad."
  • C. Gerd Arntz
    Gerd Arntz was a German graphic designer and artist best known for creating the iconic pictograms and visual symbols used in the Isotype system of information design.
  • D. Detlev W. Bronk
    Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
  • E. John David Stier
    John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
  • 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_69a7cf5e59588190b9d2bb00adf5c871 completed March 4, 2026, 6:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7d037e4608190a898b872cc3bfd8d completed March 4, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7d0b60f6881908060455f4a9b4ec6 completed March 4, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.