Triple

T7113804
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20 E165767 entity
Predicate crewMemberRole P21967 FINISHED
Object Wally Funk – aviation pioneer and Mercury 13 member
Wally Funk is an American aviator and one of the Mercury 13 women who, after being denied the chance to go to space in the 1960s, became the oldest person to fly in space on a Blue Origin suborbital mission in 2021.
E642886 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: Wally Funk – aviation pioneer and Mercury 13 member | Statement: [Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20, crewMemberRole, Wally Funk – aviation pioneer and Mercury 13 member]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wally Funk – aviation pioneer and Mercury 13 member
Context triple: [Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20, crewMemberRole, Wally Funk – aviation pioneer and Mercury 13 member]
  • A. Mary Yeager
    Mary Yeager is an American history professor best known as the longtime wife of actor John Lithgow.
  • B. Elizabeth Mattingly
    Elizabeth Mattingly is known as the wife of former NASA astronaut and Apollo program command module pilot Ken Mattingly.
  • C. Marilyn Lovell
    Marilyn Lovell is the wife of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, known for her role in supporting him and their family during his NASA career and the historic mission crisis.
  • D. Jeana Yeager
    Jeana Yeager is an American aviator best known for co-piloting the Rutan Voyager on the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world in 1986.
  • E. Pamela A. Melroy
    Pamela A. Melroy is a former NASA astronaut, retired U.S. Air Force colonel, and aerospace leader who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and later became NASA Deputy Administrator.
  • 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: Wally Funk – aviation pioneer and Mercury 13 member
Triple: [Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20, crewMemberRole, Wally Funk – aviation pioneer and Mercury 13 member]
Generated description
Wally Funk is an American aviator and one of the Mercury 13 women who, after being denied the chance to go to space in the 1960s, became the oldest person to fly in space on a Blue Origin suborbital mission in 2021.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wally Funk – aviation pioneer and Mercury 13 member
Target entity description: Wally Funk is an American aviator and one of the Mercury 13 women who, after being denied the chance to go to space in the 1960s, became the oldest person to fly in space on a Blue Origin suborbital mission in 2021.
  • A. Mary Yeager
    Mary Yeager is an American history professor best known as the longtime wife of actor John Lithgow.
  • B. Elizabeth Mattingly
    Elizabeth Mattingly is known as the wife of former NASA astronaut and Apollo program command module pilot Ken Mattingly.
  • C. Marilyn Lovell
    Marilyn Lovell is the wife of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, known for her role in supporting him and their family during his NASA career and the historic mission crisis.
  • D. Jeana Yeager
    Jeana Yeager is an American aviator best known for co-piloting the Rutan Voyager on the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world in 1986.
  • E. Pamela A. Melroy
    Pamela A. Melroy is a former NASA astronaut, retired U.S. Air Force colonel, and aerospace leader who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and later became NASA Deputy Administrator.
  • 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_69c6888120f081908f8f01b201dc4a4c completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e7759a048190815689298befa8d7 completed March 27, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c79cbc35d48190974e207eb98dcbe3 completed March 28, 2026, 9:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c79d31a9e8819096e6a3040b1852a9 completed March 28, 2026, 9:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c79dcae54c8190b06e687236373f68 completed March 28, 2026, 9:22 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:43 p.m.