Triple
T22201621
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mercury-Redstone 2 |
E548697
|
entity |
| Predicate | followedBy |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Mercury-Redstone BD |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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-Redstone BD | Statement: [Mercury-Redstone 2, followedBy, Mercury-Redstone BD]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury-Redstone BD Context triple: [Mercury-Redstone 2, followedBy, Mercury-Redstone BD]
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A.
Mercury-Redstone 2
Mercury-Redstone 2 was a 1961 NASA suborbital test flight of the Mercury program that carried the chimpanzee Ham to space to evaluate spacecraft systems and life-support ahead of human missions.
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B.
Mercury-Redstone 1A
Mercury-Redstone 1A was an uncrewed 1960 NASA suborbital test flight in the Mercury program, conducted to validate the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle and spacecraft systems after the partial failure of the earlier Mercury-Redstone 1 mission.
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C.
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.
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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.
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E.
Mercury-Redstone rocket
The Mercury-Redstone rocket was an early American launch vehicle used by NASA to send the first U.S. astronauts on suborbital spaceflights during Project Mercury.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury-Redstone BD Target entity description: Mercury-Redstone BD was an uncrewed test flight in NASA's early Mercury program, conducted to validate the reliability of the Redstone launch vehicle before sending American astronauts into space.
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A.
Mercury-Redstone 2
Mercury-Redstone 2 was a 1961 NASA suborbital test flight of the Mercury program that carried the chimpanzee Ham to space to evaluate spacecraft systems and life-support ahead of human missions.
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B.
Mercury-Redstone 1A
chosen
Mercury-Redstone 1A was an uncrewed 1960 NASA suborbital test flight in the Mercury program, conducted to validate the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle and spacecraft systems after the partial failure of the earlier Mercury-Redstone 1 mission.
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C.
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.
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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.
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E.
Mercury-Redstone rocket
The Mercury-Redstone rocket was an early American launch vehicle used by NASA to send the first U.S. astronauts on suborbital spaceflights during Project Mercury.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (2 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_69e11e3ecc7c8190b5f94cd8f42e9d37 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f12aeb16348190a34f96b47e01c8cf |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:47 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:36 p.m.