Triple

T912674
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject STS-42 E19696 entity
Predicate crewMember P2094 FINISHED
Object Norman E. Thagard
Norman E. Thagard is an American physician, former U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut who became the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
E112641 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: Norman E. Thagard | Statement: [STS-42, crewMember, Norman E. Thagard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman E. Thagard
Context triple: [STS-42, crewMember, Norman E. Thagard]
  • A. Mario Bunge
    Mario Bunge was an Argentine philosopher and physicist renowned for his rigorous defense of scientific realism and systematic, naturalistic philosophy across metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.
  • B. David M. Brown
    David M. Brown was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
  • C. Terrence Sejnowski
    Terrence Sejnowski is a pioneering computational neuroscientist and machine learning researcher known for foundational contributions to neural networks and learning algorithms.
  • D. James S. Langer
    James S. Langer is an American theoretical physicist known for his work on phase transitions, pattern formation, and the dynamics of nonequilibrium systems.
  • E. Wolfram Burgard
    Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
  • 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: Norman E. Thagard
Triple: [STS-42, crewMember, Norman E. Thagard]
Generated description
Norman E. Thagard is an American physician, former U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut who became the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman E. Thagard
Target entity description: Norman E. Thagard is an American physician, former U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut who became the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
  • A. Mario Bunge
    Mario Bunge was an Argentine philosopher and physicist renowned for his rigorous defense of scientific realism and systematic, naturalistic philosophy across metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.
  • B. David M. Brown
    David M. Brown was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
  • C. Terrence Sejnowski
    Terrence Sejnowski is a pioneering computational neuroscientist and machine learning researcher known for foundational contributions to neural networks and learning algorithms.
  • D. James S. Langer
    James S. Langer is an American theoretical physicist known for his work on phase transitions, pattern formation, and the dynamics of nonequilibrium systems.
  • E. Wolfram Burgard
    Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
  • 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_69a4939f91a08190ba68c2c81eab90fe completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b2df9ba88190824437026796586f completed March 1, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a9339e557c81908d4d44f922994ba0 completed March 5, 2026, 7:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a939dc47088190a67f78eaf654164e completed March 5, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aa969be4648190a74982d015763dcd completed March 6, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.