Triple
T1836046
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | NASA Exceptional Service Medal |
E41068
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
Christopher C. Kraft Jr. was a pioneering NASA engineer and the agency’s first flight director, instrumental in shaping mission control and the success of early U.S. human spaceflight programs.
|
E210779
|
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: Christopher C. Kraft Jr. | Statement: [NASA Exceptional Service Medal, notableRecipient, Christopher C. Kraft Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Context triple: [NASA Exceptional Service Medal, notableRecipient, Christopher C. Kraft Jr.]
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A.
James E. Webb
James E. Webb was an American government official who served as NASA’s second administrator, overseeing key early space missions during the 1960s.
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B.
Joe Engle
Joe Engle is an American astronaut and test pilot best known for flying the X-15 rocket plane and commanding early Space Shuttle missions.
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C.
Vance D. Brand
Vance D. Brand is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and served as command module pilot on the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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D.
John A. McCone
John A. McCone was an American industrialist and government official who served as Director of Central Intelligence during the early 1960s, overseeing the CIA through critical Cold War events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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E.
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun was a German-American aerospace engineer and pioneering rocket scientist who led the development of both Nazi Germany’s V-2 missile and NASA’s Saturn V rocket that enabled the Apollo Moon landings.
- 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: Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Triple: [NASA Exceptional Service Medal, notableRecipient, Christopher C. Kraft Jr.]
Generated description
Christopher C. Kraft Jr. was a pioneering NASA engineer and the agency’s first flight director, instrumental in shaping mission control and the success of early U.S. human spaceflight programs.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Target entity description: Christopher C. Kraft Jr. was a pioneering NASA engineer and the agency’s first flight director, instrumental in shaping mission control and the success of early U.S. human spaceflight programs.
-
A.
James E. Webb
James E. Webb was an American government official who served as NASA’s second administrator, overseeing key early space missions during the 1960s.
-
B.
Joe Engle
Joe Engle is an American astronaut and test pilot best known for flying the X-15 rocket plane and commanding early Space Shuttle missions.
-
C.
Vance D. Brand
Vance D. Brand is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and served as command module pilot on the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
-
D.
John A. McCone
John A. McCone was an American industrialist and government official who served as Director of Central Intelligence during the early 1960s, overseeing the CIA through critical Cold War events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
-
E.
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun was a German-American aerospace engineer and pioneering rocket scientist who led the development of both Nazi Germany’s V-2 missile and NASA’s Saturn V rocket that enabled the Apollo Moon landings.
- 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_69a88647f9388190909bc36e795bdaec |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abb028226481908558c11449e1d6b6 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 4:57 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69addf45fcd08190a82a4057470eb3ee |
completed | March 8, 2026, 8:42 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ade34a51b88190937437a1856557c8 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 8:59 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ade3e2625c81909df2b22ce4cbf3ff |
completed | March 8, 2026, 9:02 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.