Paul J. Weitz – Skylab 2
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Paul J. Weitz was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot best known as the commander of the first crewed Skylab mission and later as commander of Space Shuttle Challenger’s STS-6 flight.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul J. Weitz – Skylab 2 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13040104 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul J. Weitz – Skylab 2 Context triple: [NASA Astronaut Group 6, memberFlewOnMission, Paul J. Weitz – Skylab 2]
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A.
Jerry Linenger
Jerry Linenger is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy flight surgeon best known for his long-duration, often perilous mission aboard the Russian Mir space station in the late 1990s.
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B.
Jack Swigert
Jack Swigert was an American astronaut, test pilot, and politician best known as the command module pilot of NASA’s ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission.
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C.
Bruce McCandless I
Bruce McCandless I was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for his heroism during World War II, particularly in the Battle of Guadalcanal.
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D.
F. Story Musgrave
F. Story Musgrave is a former NASA astronaut, physician, and engineer renowned for his extensive spaceflight career and key role in repairing the Hubble Space Telescope.
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E.
Michael Bowman
Michael Bowman is an actor known for his role in the comedy film "Me, Myself & Irene."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul J. Weitz – Skylab 2 Target entity description: Paul J. Weitz was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot best known as the commander of the first crewed Skylab mission and later as commander of Space Shuttle Challenger’s STS-6 flight.
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A.
Jerry Linenger
Jerry Linenger is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy flight surgeon best known for his long-duration, often perilous mission aboard the Russian Mir space station in the late 1990s.
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B.
Jack Swigert
Jack Swigert was an American astronaut, test pilot, and politician best known as the command module pilot of NASA’s ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission.
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C.
Bruce McCandless I
Bruce McCandless I was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for his heroism during World War II, particularly in the Battle of Guadalcanal.
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D.
F. Story Musgrave
F. Story Musgrave is a former NASA astronaut, physician, and engineer renowned for his extensive spaceflight career and key role in repairing the Hubble Space Telescope.
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E.
Michael Bowman
Michael Bowman is an actor known for his role in the comedy film "Me, Myself & Irene."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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NASA space mission ⓘ United States Navy officer ⓘ crewed spaceflight ⓘ human ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
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NASA Exceptional Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewMember | Paul J. Weitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Pennsylvania State University
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Naval Postgraduate School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Weitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
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space exploration ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Saturn IB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| missionType | space station visit ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding STS-6, Challenger’s first mission
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commanding the first crewed Skylab mission ⓘ first crewed mission to Skylab space station ⓘ |
| notableWork |
STS-6 Space Shuttle mission
NERFINISHED
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first crewed Skylab mission ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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naval officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
Skylab program
NERFINISHED
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Skylab program NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
commander of STS-6
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commander of Skylab 2 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Skylab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftFlown |
Skylab
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Challenger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-6
NERFINISHED
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Skylab 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Paul J. Weitz – Skylab 2 Description of subject: Paul J. Weitz was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot best known as the commander of the first crewed Skylab mission and later as commander of Space Shuttle Challenger’s STS-6 flight.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.