Shannon Lucid
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Shannon Lucid is an American biochemist and NASA astronaut known for holding long-duration spaceflight records and serving on multiple Space Shuttle and Mir space missions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shannon Lucid canonical | 11 |
| Shannon W. Lucid | 7 |
| Shannon Lucid – NASA | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T173638 — 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: Shannon Lucid Context triple: [Shannon, hasNotableBearer, Shannon Lucid]
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A.
Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar is a Canadian neurologist, astronaut, and photographer who became the first Canadian woman to travel into space.
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B.
Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
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C.
Oleksandr Kornienko
Oleksandr Kornienko is a Ukrainian politician who has held senior leadership roles in the Servant of the People party and in Ukraine’s parliament.
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D.
Sheila Widnall
Sheila Widnall is an American aerospace engineer and educator who became the first woman to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Air Force and is renowned for her contributions to fluid dynamics and aviation safety.
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E.
Ellie Arroway
Ellie Arroway is a brilliant and determined radio astronomer who becomes the central figure in humanity’s first confirmed contact with extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s science fiction story "Contact."
- 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: Shannon Lucid Target entity description: Shannon Lucid is an American biochemist and NASA astronaut known for holding long-duration spaceflight records and serving on multiple Space Shuttle and Mir space missions.
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A.
Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar is a Canadian neurologist, astronaut, and photographer who became the first Canadian woman to travel into space.
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B.
Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
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C.
Oleksandr Kornienko
Oleksandr Kornienko is a Ukrainian politician who has held senior leadership roles in the Servant of the People party and in Ukraine’s parliament.
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D.
Sheila Widnall
Sheila Widnall is an American aerospace engineer and educator who became the first woman to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Air Force and is renowned for her contributions to fluid dynamics and aviation safety.
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E.
Ellie Arroway
Ellie Arroway is a brilliant and determined radio astronomer who becomes the central figure in humanity’s first confirmed contact with extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s science fiction story "Contact."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Shannon Lucid Description of subject: Shannon Lucid is an American biochemist and NASA astronaut known for holding long-duration spaceflight records and serving on multiple Space Shuttle and Mir space missions.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shannon Lucid – NASA
this entity surface form:
Shannon W. Lucid
this entity surface form:
Shannon W. Lucid
this entity surface form:
Shannon W. Lucid
this entity surface form:
Shannon W. Lucid
this entity surface form:
Shannon W. Lucid
this entity surface form:
Shannon W. Lucid
this entity surface form:
Shannon W. Lucid