STS-81
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STS-81 was a NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Russian Mir space station in January 1997, focused on crew exchange, resupply, and scientific research.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-81 canonical | 4 |
| Space Shuttle mission STS-81 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2151739 — 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: STS-81 Context triple: [STS-82, previousMission, STS-81]
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A.
STS-82
STS-82 was NASA’s second Space Shuttle servicing mission to upgrade and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, enhancing its scientific capabilities.
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B.
STS-88
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, delivering and assembling its initial U.S. and Russian modules in orbit.
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C.
STS-51-L
STS-51-L was the ill-fated 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger mission that ended in disaster shortly after launch, resulting in the loss of all seven crew members.
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D.
STS-8
STS-8 was a 1983 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission notable for carrying the first African American astronaut, Guion S. Bluford, into space and deploying the Indian INSAT-1B communications satellite.
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E.
STS-58
STS-58 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on life sciences research, particularly the effects of spaceflight on the human body.
- 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: STS-81 Target entity description: STS-81 was a NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Russian Mir space station in January 1997, focused on crew exchange, resupply, and scientific research.
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A.
STS-82
STS-82 was NASA’s second Space Shuttle servicing mission to upgrade and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, enhancing its scientific capabilities.
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B.
STS-88
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, delivering and assembling its initial U.S. and Russian modules in orbit.
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C.
STS-51-L
STS-51-L was the ill-fated 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger mission that ended in disaster shortly after launch, resulting in the loss of all seven crew members.
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D.
STS-8
STS-8 was a 1983 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission notable for carrying the first African American astronaut, Guion S. Bluford, into space and deploying the Indian INSAT-1B communications satellite.
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E.
STS-58
STS-58 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on life sciences research, particularly the effects of spaceflight on the human body.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: STS-81 Description of subject: STS-81 was a NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Russian Mir space station in January 1997, focused on crew exchange, resupply, and scientific research.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Space Shuttle mission STS-81