Triple

T22134390
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject GEM 63XL E546987 entity
Predicate usedOn P2367 FINISHED
Object Vulcan first stage
The Vulcan first stage is the primary booster stage of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket, powered by BE-4 engines and designed to provide the initial thrust needed to lift payloads from Earth’s surface into space.
E1519880 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: Vulcan first stage | Statement: [GEM 63XL, usedOn, Vulcan first stage]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vulcan first stage
Context triple: [GEM 63XL, usedOn, Vulcan first stage]
  • A. Centaur upper stage
    The Centaur upper stage is a high-energy rocket stage developed by the United States that pioneered the use of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants to boost payloads from low Earth orbit to higher orbits and interplanetary trajectories.
  • B. Briz-M upper stage
    The Briz-M upper stage is a Russian rocket stage used primarily on Proton and Angara launch vehicles to place satellites into high orbits such as geostationary transfer and medium Earth orbit.
  • C. Briz-KM upper stage
    The Briz-KM upper stage is a Russian rocket stage developed by the Khrunichev Center, primarily used to place satellites into higher orbits on launch vehicles such as the Rockot.
  • D. Ablestar upper stage
    The Ablestar upper stage was a liquid-fueled rocket stage developed in the late 1950s–early 1960s to enhance the Thor missile’s capability for placing satellites into orbit and performing precise orbital maneuvers.
  • E. Starship upper stage
    The Starship upper stage is the fully reusable spacecraft component of SpaceX’s Starship launch system, designed to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
  • 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: Vulcan first stage
Triple: [GEM 63XL, usedOn, Vulcan first stage]
Generated description
The Vulcan first stage is the primary booster stage of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket, powered by BE-4 engines and designed to provide the initial thrust needed to lift payloads from Earth’s surface into space.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vulcan first stage
Target entity description: The Vulcan first stage is the primary booster stage of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket, powered by BE-4 engines and designed to provide the initial thrust needed to lift payloads from Earth’s surface into space.
  • A. Centaur upper stage
    The Centaur upper stage is a high-energy rocket stage developed by the United States that pioneered the use of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants to boost payloads from low Earth orbit to higher orbits and interplanetary trajectories.
  • B. Briz-M upper stage
    The Briz-M upper stage is a Russian rocket stage used primarily on Proton and Angara launch vehicles to place satellites into high orbits such as geostationary transfer and medium Earth orbit.
  • C. Briz-KM upper stage
    The Briz-KM upper stage is a Russian rocket stage developed by the Khrunichev Center, primarily used to place satellites into higher orbits on launch vehicles such as the Rockot.
  • D. Ablestar upper stage
    The Ablestar upper stage was a liquid-fueled rocket stage developed in the late 1950s–early 1960s to enhance the Thor missile’s capability for placing satellites into orbit and performing precise orbital maneuvers.
  • E. Starship upper stage
    The Starship upper stage is the fully reusable spacecraft component of SpaceX’s Starship launch system, designed to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
  • 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_69e11e39bf348190b541bfa16a7b71e0 completed April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f129b8f4248190b6342c8d00942c25 completed April 28, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a8f2bd49c81908a75359074a0ada2 completed May 18, 2026, 4:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a91ef8d188190a6ec20d6c43aef91 completed May 18, 2026, 4:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a9266624c81908eb06a0fc02b85d4 completed May 18, 2026, 4:15 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:32 p.m.