Jeffrey S. Ashby
E1037403
Jeffrey S. Ashby is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the early 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeffrey S. Ashby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11461027 — 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: Jeffrey S. Ashby Context triple: [STS-100, pilot, Jeffrey S. Ashby]
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A.
David M. Abshire
David M. Abshire was an American diplomat, public servant, and foreign policy expert best known as a co-founder of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and for his roles in U.S. national security and international affairs.
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B.
Stephen K. Robinson
Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
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C.
Michael L. Coats
Michael L. Coats is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and later served as director of the Johnson Space Center.
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D.
Richard D. Smith
Richard D. Smith is a theatrical producer known for his work on the hit Broadway musical "The Producers."
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E.
David H. Brown
David H. Brown was one of the defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial tensions, self-defense, and housing segregation.
- 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: Jeffrey S. Ashby Target entity description: Jeffrey S. Ashby is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the early 2000s.
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A.
David M. Abshire
David M. Abshire was an American diplomat, public servant, and foreign policy expert best known as a co-founder of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and for his roles in U.S. national security and international affairs.
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B.
Stephen K. Robinson
Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
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C.
Michael L. Coats
Michael L. Coats is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and later served as director of the Johnson Space Center.
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D.
Richard D. Smith
Richard D. Smith is a theatrical producer known for his work on the hit Broadway musical "The Producers."
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E.
David H. Brown
David H. Brown was one of the defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial tensions, self-defense, and housing segregation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Navy officer ⓘ human ⓘ military aviator ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Medal
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Defense Superior Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ Meritorious Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
Gulf War
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Operation Desert Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Naval Postgraduate School
NERFINISHED
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United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| employer | National Aeronautics and Space Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ashby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
ⓘ
human spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeffrey ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the early 2000s ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Space Shuttle mission commander
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Space Shuttle pilot ⓘ |
| notableWork |
STS-100 International Space Station assembly mission
NERFINISHED
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STS-112 International Space Station assembly mission NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-93 Chandra X-ray Observatory deployment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
naval aviator ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
commander of STS-112
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pilot of STS-100 ⓘ pilot of STS-93 ⓘ |
| retiredFrom |
NASA Astronaut Corps
NERFINISHED
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United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spacecraft |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-100
NERFINISHED
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STS-112 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-93 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: Jeffrey S. Ashby Description of subject: Jeffrey S. Ashby is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the early 2000s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.