Triple

T13288264
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject NASA Explorer Program E316497 entity
Predicate notableMission P68 FINISHED
Object Explorer 12
Explorer 12 was an early 1961 NASA scientific satellite that studied Earth’s radiation belts and interplanetary space as part of the Explorer program.
E1038034 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: Explorer 12 | Statement: [NASA Explorer Program, notableMission, Explorer 12]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Explorer 12
Context triple: [NASA Explorer Program, notableMission, Explorer 12]
  • A. Explorer 10
    Explorer 10 was an early NASA scientific satellite launched in 1961 to study Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind in near-Earth space.
  • B. Explorer 6
    Explorer 6 was an early NASA Earth-orbiting satellite launched in 1959 that returned some of the first images of Earth from space and studied the planet’s radiation environment.
  • C. Explorer 71
    Explorer 71 is a NASA Explorer-series scientific satellite better known as the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), designed to study energetic particles from the Sun, the interplanetary medium, and galactic sources.
  • D. Explorer 1
    Explorer 1 was the first successful United States satellite, launched in 1958 and notable for discovering the Van Allen radiation belts.
  • E. Explorer 66
    Explorer 66, better known as the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), is a NASA satellite launched in 1989 that made landmark measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation, providing key evidence for the Big Bang theory.
  • 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: Explorer 12
Triple: [NASA Explorer Program, notableMission, Explorer 12]
Generated description
Explorer 12 was an early 1961 NASA scientific satellite that studied Earth’s radiation belts and interplanetary space as part of the Explorer program.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Explorer 12
Target entity description: Explorer 12 was an early 1961 NASA scientific satellite that studied Earth’s radiation belts and interplanetary space as part of the Explorer program.
  • A. Explorer 10
    Explorer 10 was an early NASA scientific satellite launched in 1961 to study Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind in near-Earth space.
  • B. Explorer 6
    Explorer 6 was an early NASA Earth-orbiting satellite launched in 1959 that returned some of the first images of Earth from space and studied the planet’s radiation environment.
  • C. Explorer 71
    Explorer 71 is a NASA Explorer-series scientific satellite better known as the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), designed to study energetic particles from the Sun, the interplanetary medium, and galactic sources.
  • D. Explorer 1
    Explorer 1 was the first successful United States satellite, launched in 1958 and notable for discovering the Van Allen radiation belts.
  • E. Explorer 66
    Explorer 66, better known as the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), is a NASA satellite launched in 1989 that made landmark measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation, providing key evidence for the Big Bang theory.
  • 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_69d806b349908190a9a61dd9323bf153 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d99076aeec8190b0cb883ab60d3f6b completed April 11, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7305e1d70819096ff9784e9fafde9 completed May 3, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7315007c081909ae53890e0782059 completed May 3, 2026, 11:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f731b63f6081909658ce3af7103fe8 completed May 3, 2026, 11:29 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:27 p.m.