Triple

T17359425
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 25143 Itokawa E422028 entity
Predicate hasAlternativeName P39 FINISHED
Object Itokawa
Itokawa is a small, peanut-shaped near-Earth asteroid best known as the target of Japan's Hayabusa sample-return mission.
 E1264959 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: Itokawa | Statement: [25143 Itokawa, hasAlternativeName, Itokawa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Itokawa
Context triple: [25143 Itokawa, hasAlternativeName, Itokawa]
  • A. asteroid 4179 Toutatis
    Asteroid 4179 Toutatis is a near-Earth, tumbling, elongated asteroid known for its close approaches to Earth and detailed radar imaging that revealed its distinctive contact-binary shape.
  • B. asteroid 1000 Piazzia
    Asteroid 1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres.
  • C. Bennu
    Bennu is an ancient Egyptian mythological bird associated with the sun, creation, and rebirth, often seen as a precursor or counterpart to the Greek phoenix.
  • D. Nakhla
    Nakhla is a valley near Mecca in the Arabian Peninsula historically known as an important pre-Islamic religious site.
  • E. Nakhl
    Nakhl is a small desert town and administrative center located in Egypt’s North Sinai region, historically serving as a strategic waypoint in the central Sinai Peninsula.
  • 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: Itokawa
Triple: [25143 Itokawa, hasAlternativeName, Itokawa]
Generated description
Itokawa is a small, peanut-shaped near-Earth asteroid best known as the target of Japan's Hayabusa sample-return mission.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Itokawa
Target entity description: Itokawa is a small, peanut-shaped near-Earth asteroid best known as the target of Japan's Hayabusa sample-return mission.
  • A. asteroid 4179 Toutatis
    Asteroid 4179 Toutatis is a near-Earth, tumbling, elongated asteroid known for its close approaches to Earth and detailed radar imaging that revealed its distinctive contact-binary shape.
  • B. asteroid 1000 Piazzia
    Asteroid 1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres.
  • C. Bennu
    Bennu is an ancient Egyptian mythological bird associated with the sun, creation, and rebirth, often seen as a precursor or counterpart to the Greek phoenix.
  • D. Nakhla
    Nakhla is a valley near Mecca in the Arabian Peninsula historically known as an important pre-Islamic religious site.
  • E. Nakhl
    Nakhl is a small desert town and administrative center located in Egypt’s North Sinai region, historically serving as a strategic waypoint in the central Sinai Peninsula.
  • 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_69d889d520008190a26917a95bf1c2ea completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e43a4be7448190988593ee342348c1 completed April 19, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01955e4cb481909e3193439bb85cd8 completed May 11, 2026, 8:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a019b7ab6bc8190843e2c6c7f2007d7 completed May 11, 2026, 9:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a019c53d8b0819083f380693943f881 completed May 11, 2026, 9:07 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:44 a.m.