David R. Scott
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David R. Scott is an American astronaut, Air Force officer, and test pilot best known for commanding the Apollo 15 mission and becoming the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David R. Scott canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1806884 — 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: David R. Scott Context triple: [Gemini 8, pilot, David R. Scott]
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A.
David R. Francis
David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Barry K. Carpenter
Barry K. Carpenter is a theoretical and physical chemist known for his work on reaction mechanisms and potential energy surfaces in organic and organometallic chemistry.
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C.
Richard W. Smith
Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
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D.
R. Bruce Lindsay
R. Bruce Lindsay was an American physicist and acoustician known for his influential work in physical acoustics and contributions to the history and philosophy of science.
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E.
David G. Bradley
David G. Bradley is an American businessman and publisher best known as the owner and longtime chairman of Atlantic Media, the parent company of The Atlantic.
- 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: David R. Scott Target entity description: David R. Scott is an American astronaut, Air Force officer, and test pilot best known for commanding the Apollo 15 mission and becoming the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
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A.
David R. Francis
David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Barry K. Carpenter
Barry K. Carpenter is a theoretical and physical chemist known for his work on reaction mechanisms and potential energy surfaces in organic and organometallic chemistry.
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C.
Richard W. Smith
Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
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D.
R. Bruce Lindsay
R. Bruce Lindsay was an American physicist and acoustician known for his influential work in physical acoustics and contributions to the history and philosophy of science.
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E.
David G. Bradley
David G. Bradley is an American businessman and publisher best known as the owner and longtime chairman of Atlantic Media, the parent company of The Atlantic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Air Force officer
ⓘ
astronaut ⓘ human ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science
ⓘ
Master of Science ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
ⓘ
Distinguished Flying Cross ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ NASA Exceptional Service Medal ⓘ Presidential Medal of Freedom ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Alexei Leonov ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-06-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ⓘ
United States Air Force Test Pilot School ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Air Force Experimental Test Pilot School
United States Military Academy ⓘ
surface form:
United States Military Academy at West Point
|
| employer |
NASA
ⓘ
surface form:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States Air Force ⓘ |
| familyName | Scott ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | aeronautics and astronautics ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction space exploration literature ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first person to drive the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon
ⓘ
seventh person to walk on the Moon ⓘ |
| notableEvent | performed Galileo gravity experiment on the Moon during Apollo 15 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Apollo 15
ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo 15 mission
Two Sides of the Moon ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Apollo 15
ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo 15 lunar landing
Apollo program ⓘ Gemini program ⓘ first use of Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Antonio, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
command module pilot of Apollo 9
ⓘ
commander of Apollo 15 ⓘ |
| residence | Texas (various locations) ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Apollo 15
ⓘ
Apollo 9 ⓘ Gemini 8 ⓘ |
| spaceTimeDuration | spent over 22 days in space ⓘ |
| spacewalk | performed spacewalks during Apollo 9 ⓘ |
| wasMemberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: David R. Scott Description of subject: David R. Scott is an American astronaut, Air Force officer, and test pilot best known for commanding the Apollo 15 mission and becoming the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.