Triple

T590717
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial E17261 entity
Predicate dedicatedTo P500 FINISHED
Object William C. McCool
William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
E74056 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: William C. McCool | Statement: [Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial, dedicatedTo, William C. McCool]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. McCool
Context triple: [Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial, dedicatedTo, William C. McCool]
  • A. Robert S. Garnett
    Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
  • B. Winfield Scott Hancock
    Winfield Scott Hancock was a prominent Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a Democratic presidential nominee in the 1880 United States election.
  • C. Philip Barton Key II
    Philip Barton Key II was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, best known for his scandalous affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles and his subsequent murder by her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles.
  • D. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
    Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
  • E. John D. Schofield
    John D. Schofield is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the World War II drama "Enemy at the Gates."
  • 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: William C. McCool
Triple: [Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial, dedicatedTo, William C. McCool]
Generated description
William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. McCool
Target entity description: William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
  • A. Robert S. Garnett
    Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
  • B. Winfield Scott Hancock
    Winfield Scott Hancock was a prominent Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a Democratic presidential nominee in the 1880 United States election.
  • C. Philip Barton Key II
    Philip Barton Key II was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, best known for his scandalous affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles and his subsequent murder by her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles.
  • D. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
    Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
  • E. John D. Schofield
    John D. Schofield is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the World War II drama "Enemy at the Gates."
  • 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_69a49379d09c8190ac7e00b24e2810b1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49bb8ff0081909cd53d88930e2693 completed March 1, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a51554857481909c684b86b51aa126 completed March 2, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5163b240881909672bf4bc2ebe9cf completed March 2, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a516a1e6508190a7ecb801f5080ddd completed March 2, 2026, 4:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.