Triple

T23252909
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Deke Slayton E581782 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Donald
Donald "Deke" Slayton was one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts and later the agency’s Director of Flight Crew Operations, playing a key role in early U.S. human spaceflight.
 E581781 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: Donald | Statement: [Deke Slayton, givenName, Donald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Donald
Context triple: [Deke Slayton, givenName, Donald]
  • A. Donald
    Donald is the given name of Donald W. Riegle Jr., a former United States Senator from Michigan.
  • B. Donald
    Donald is the given name of the English actor and theatre manager Donald Wolfit.
  • C. Donald
    Donald is the given name of Donald A. Norman, a prominent cognitive scientist and design theorist known for his influential work on user-centered design.
  • D. Donald
    Donald is a Scottish-origin surname that is derived from the given name Domhnall, meaning "ruler of the world" or "world-mighty."
  • E. Donald
    Donald is the given first name of American film producer Don Simpson, known for his work on blockbuster Hollywood movies in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • 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: Donald
Triple: [Deke Slayton, givenName, Donald]
Generated description
Donald "Deke" Slayton was one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts and later the agency’s Director of Flight Crew Operations, playing a key role in early U.S. human spaceflight.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Donald
Target entity description: Donald "Deke" Slayton was one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts and later the agency’s Director of Flight Crew Operations, playing a key role in early U.S. human spaceflight.
  • A. Donald chosen
    Donald "Deke" Slayton was an American aeronautical engineer, test pilot, original NASA Mercury Seven astronaut, and later NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations.
  • B. Donald
    Donald "Slick" Watts is a former American professional basketball player best known as a flashy, headband-wearing point guard for the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1970s.
  • C. Donald
    Donald is the given first name of Neil Johnston, an American Basketball Hall of Famer known for his prolific scoring in the 1950s NBA.
  • D. Donald
    Donald is the given first name of Don Hutson, a pioneering American football wide receiver widely regarded as one of the NFL’s earliest superstars.
  • E. Donald
    Donald is the given name of Donald Lynden-Bell, a prominent British astrophysicist known for his work on galactic dynamics and the theory that supermassive black holes power quasars.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e24606b17c81908aba1a4911c8a8ba completed April 17, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f193f840dc819098e52272abefe616 completed April 29, 2026, 5:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c3f6a050c81908242087190a5a42e completed May 19, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c4028b44c8190bde6e2c76b5f1587 completed May 19, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c4367753c8190a4f6dbf2afd12b76 completed May 19, 2026, 11:03 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:11 p.m.