Triple

T912675
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject STS-42 E19696 entity
Predicate crewMember P2094 FINISHED
Object David C. Hilmers
David C. Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions before later becoming a physician and academic.
E235737 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: David C. Hilmers | Statement: [STS-42, crewMember, David C. Hilmers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David C. Hilmers
Context triple: [STS-42, crewMember, David C. Hilmers]
  • A. Martin J. Hillenbrand
    Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • B. David M. Satterfield
    David M. Satterfield is an American diplomat and former U.S. ambassador who has held several senior foreign policy roles, including directing Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
  • C. Karl C. Mamola
    Karl C. Mamola is a distinguished physics educator recognized for his significant contributions to physics teaching and learning.
  • D. Robert T. Herres
    Robert T. Herres was a United States Air Force general who became the first Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a key leader in U.S. military space and strategic command operations.
  • E. R. Lawrence Kirkegaard
    R. Lawrence Kirkegaard is an acoustical engineer renowned for designing high-performance concert hall acoustics, including those of Seiji Ozawa Hall.
  • 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: David C. Hilmers
Triple: [STS-42, crewMember, David C. Hilmers]
Generated description
David C. Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions before later becoming a physician and academic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David C. Hilmers
Target entity description: David C. Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions before later becoming a physician and academic.
  • A. Martin J. Hillenbrand
    Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • B. David M. Satterfield
    David M. Satterfield is an American diplomat and former U.S. ambassador who has held several senior foreign policy roles, including directing Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
  • C. Karl C. Mamola
    Karl C. Mamola is a distinguished physics educator recognized for his significant contributions to physics teaching and learning.
  • D. Robert T. Herres
    Robert T. Herres was a United States Air Force general who became the first Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a key leader in U.S. military space and strategic command operations.
  • E. R. Lawrence Kirkegaard
    R. Lawrence Kirkegaard is an acoustical engineer renowned for designing high-performance concert hall acoustics, including those of Seiji Ozawa Hall.
  • 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_69ae5150360881909dabd3d6d12f83e1 completed March 9, 2026, 4:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae51e8aaa48190919397831d46db23 completed March 9, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae526dd8608190baefb3101884c83f completed March 9, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.