Triple

T6444954
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercury-Atlas 7 E138317 entity
Predicate isPartOfSeries P1925 FINISHED
Object Mercury-Atlas series
The Mercury-Atlas series was a sequence of early NASA missions that used Atlas rockets to launch Mercury spacecraft, playing a key role in the United States’ first human spaceflight program.
E598052 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 series | Statement: [Mercury-Atlas 7, isPartOfSeries, Mercury-Atlas series]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury-Atlas series
Context triple: [Mercury-Atlas 7, isPartOfSeries, Mercury-Atlas series]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Mercury-Atlas 5
    Mercury-Atlas 5 was a 1961 NASA test flight of the Mercury spacecraft carrying the chimpanzee Enos, serving as a crucial precursor to the first American crewed orbital mission.
  • C. Mercury program
    The Mercury program was the United States' first human spaceflight initiative, designed to send American astronauts into space and orbit Earth during the early 1960s.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 series
Triple: [Mercury-Atlas 7, isPartOfSeries, Mercury-Atlas series]
Generated description
The Mercury-Atlas series was a sequence of early NASA missions that used Atlas rockets to launch Mercury spacecraft, playing a key role in the United States’ first human spaceflight program.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mercury-Atlas series
Target entity description: The Mercury-Atlas series was a sequence of early NASA missions that used Atlas rockets to launch Mercury spacecraft, playing a key role in the United States’ first human spaceflight program.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Mercury-Atlas 5
    Mercury-Atlas 5 was a 1961 NASA test flight of the Mercury spacecraft carrying the chimpanzee Enos, serving as a crucial precursor to the first American crewed orbital mission.
  • C. Mercury program
    The Mercury program was the United States' first human spaceflight initiative, designed to send American astronauts into space and orbit Earth during the early 1960s.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69c008aa61ac8190bc96715ed79fe2d8 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0698d866c81909ef3e0a53833ff7d completed March 22, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6637ffa648190b39e9721c9a7c092 completed March 27, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c66769140881908bc016355b9c31e5 completed March 27, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c667e9e2a881908c5fe985c7463fc4 completed March 27, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:46 p.m.