Scott D. Altman
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Scott D. Altman is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including leading the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scott D. Altman canonical | 6 |
| Scott Altman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2238554 — 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: Scott D. Altman Context triple: [STS-125, commander, Scott D. Altman]
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A.
Stephen H. Sachs
Stephen H. Sachs is an American lawyer and politician who served as Maryland’s attorney general and was known for his work on legal reform and civil rights.
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B.
Jay O. Rothman
Jay O. Rothman is an American attorney and academic leader who serves as president of the University of Wisconsin System.
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C.
Harvey V. Fineberg
Harvey V. Fineberg is an American physician and public health scholar known for his leadership roles in major health and philanthropic institutions, including serving as president of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine).
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D.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
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E.
Dr. Aaron Glassman
Dr. Aaron Glassman is a fictional neurosurgeon and hospital president on the television series "The Good Doctor," known for his mentorship and paternal relationship with the protagonist, Dr. Shaun Murphy.
- 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: Scott D. Altman Target entity description: Scott D. Altman is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including leading the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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A.
Stephen H. Sachs
Stephen H. Sachs is an American lawyer and politician who served as Maryland’s attorney general and was known for his work on legal reform and civil rights.
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B.
Jay O. Rothman
Jay O. Rothman is an American attorney and academic leader who serves as president of the University of Wisconsin System.
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C.
Harvey V. Fineberg
Harvey V. Fineberg is an American physician and public health scholar known for his leadership roles in major health and philanthropic institutions, including serving as president of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine).
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D.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
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E.
Dr. Aaron Glassman
Dr. Aaron Glassman is a fictional neurosurgeon and hospital president on the television series "The Good Doctor," known for his mentorship and paternal relationship with the protagonist, Dr. Shaun Murphy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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Space Shuttle commander ⓘ United States Navy officer ⓘ human ⓘ military aviator ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Naval Postgraduate School
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1959-08-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Lincoln, Illinois
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surface form:
Lincoln, Illinois, United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
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Master of Science in Aeronautical Engineering ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
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surface form:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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| familyName | Altman ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
aeronautical engineering
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astronautical engineering ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Scott ⓘ |
| hasFlownOn |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
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Space Shuttle Atlantis ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-125
Space Shuttle Columbia ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Captain ⓘ |
| missionObjective |
Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission
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surface form:
Hubble Space Telescope servicing on STS-109
International Space Station logistics and resupply on STS-106 ⓘ final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope on STS-125 ⓘ neurological research on STS-90 (Neurolab) ⓘ |
| name | Scott D. Altman self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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naval aviator ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| retiredFromNavyRank | Captain ⓘ |
| roleInMission |
commander of STS-109
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commander of STS-125 ⓘ pilot on STS-106 ⓘ pilot on STS-90 ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronaut | 1994 ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-106
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STS-109 ⓘ STS-125 ⓘ STS-90 ⓘ |
| spaceMissionsCount | 4 ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
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: Scott D. Altman Description of subject: Scott D. Altman is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including leading the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.