Triple

T1116621
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercury program E11114 entity
Predicate notableMission P68 FINISHED
Object Mercury-Atlas 8
Mercury-Atlas 8 was a 1962 NASA crewed spaceflight in the Mercury program that carried astronaut Wally Schirra on a six-orbit mission to test spacecraft systems and astronaut endurance.
E138953 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-Atlas 8 | Statement: [Mercury program, notableMission, Mercury-Atlas 8]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury-Atlas 8
Context triple: [Mercury program, notableMission, Mercury-Atlas 8]
  • A. Mercury-Atlas 6
    Mercury-Atlas 6 was the 1962 NASA mission that carried astronaut John Glenn on the first American crewed orbital flight around Earth.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Mercury-Atlas 9
    Mercury-Atlas 9 was NASA’s final crewed Mercury mission, during which astronaut Gordon Cooper completed the longest and last solo orbital flight of the program in 1963.
  • D. Mercury-Redstone 3
    Mercury-Redstone 3 was the 1961 NASA mission that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight, marking a major early milestone in human space exploration.
  • 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-Atlas 8
Triple: [Mercury program, notableMission, Mercury-Atlas 8]
Generated description
Mercury-Atlas 8 was a 1962 NASA crewed spaceflight in the Mercury program that carried astronaut Wally Schirra on a six-orbit mission to test spacecraft systems and astronaut endurance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury-Atlas 8
Target entity description: Mercury-Atlas 8 was a 1962 NASA crewed spaceflight in the Mercury program that carried astronaut Wally Schirra on a six-orbit mission to test spacecraft systems and astronaut endurance.
  • A. Mercury-Atlas 6
    Mercury-Atlas 6 was the 1962 NASA mission that carried astronaut John Glenn on the first American crewed orbital flight around Earth.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Mercury-Atlas 9
    Mercury-Atlas 9 was NASA’s final crewed Mercury mission, during which astronaut Gordon Cooper completed the longest and last solo orbital flight of the program in 1963.
  • D. Mercury-Redstone 3
    Mercury-Redstone 3 was the 1961 NASA mission that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight, marking a major early milestone in human space exploration.
  • 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_69a493252a648190ac48f8742474a5e8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bba2b550819081f8a100638d2fba completed March 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac8309594c8190986b048b8982f153 completed March 7, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac837e06cc8190b0da34646fa78c0c completed March 7, 2026, 7:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac84309acc8190aac6c3c78246b352 completed March 7, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.