William R. Pogue – Skylab 4
E1020717
William R. Pogue was a NASA astronaut and pilot of the Skylab 4 mission, the final crewed visit to America’s first space station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William R. Pogue – Skylab 4 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13040103 — 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: William R. Pogue – Skylab 4 Context triple: [NASA Astronaut Group 6, memberFlewOnMission, William R. Pogue – Skylab 4]
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A.
Gerald P. Carr – Skylab 4
Gerald P. Carr – Skylab 4 was the final crewed mission to the Skylab space station, commanded by astronaut Gerald P. Carr and notable for setting a then-record for the longest human spaceflight.
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B.
Owen K. Garriott
Owen K. Garriott was an American NASA astronaut and electrical engineer who flew on both the Skylab space station and the Space Shuttle.
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C.
Stuart A. Roosa
Stuart A. Roosa was a NASA astronaut and command module pilot on Apollo 14, known for orbiting the Moon while his crewmates explored the lunar surface.
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D.
Edward J. White
Edward J. White was an American film producer known for his work on mid-20th-century Westerns and genre pictures.
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E.
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.
- 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: William R. Pogue – Skylab 4 Target entity description: William R. Pogue was a NASA astronaut and pilot of the Skylab 4 mission, the final crewed visit to America’s first space station.
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A.
Gerald P. Carr – Skylab 4
Gerald P. Carr – Skylab 4 was the final crewed mission to the Skylab space station, commanded by astronaut Gerald P. Carr and notable for setting a then-record for the longest human spaceflight.
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B.
Owen K. Garriott
Owen K. Garriott was an American NASA astronaut and electrical engineer who flew on both the Skylab space station and the Space Shuttle.
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C.
Stuart A. Roosa
Stuart A. Roosa was a NASA astronaut and command module pilot on Apollo 14, known for orbiting the Moon while his crewmates explored the lunar surface.
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D.
Edward J. White
Edward J. White was an American film producer known for his work on mid-20th-century Westerns and genre pictures.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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NASA space mission ⓘ aviator ⓘ crewed spaceflight mission ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Medal
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Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Korean War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewMember | William R. Pogue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destination | Skylab space station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Oklahoma Baptist University
NERFINISHED
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Oklahoma State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
ⓘ
United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Pogue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
ⓘ
spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Group 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableWork | Skylab 4 mission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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fighter pilot ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Apollo program
NERFINISHED
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Skylab 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Skylab program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Skylab program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | pilot of Skylab 4 ⓘ |
| sequenceInSeries | final crewed mission to Skylab ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: William R. Pogue – Skylab 4 Description of subject: William R. Pogue was a NASA astronaut and pilot of the Skylab 4 mission, the final crewed visit to America’s first space station.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.