Edgar D. Mitchell
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Edgar D. Mitchell was a NASA astronaut, U.S. Navy officer, and the sixth person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edgar D. Mitchell canonical | 5 |
| Edgar Mitchell | 4 |
| Dr. Edgar D. Mitchell | 1 |
| Edgar D. Mitchell – lunar module pilot | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2388986 — 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: Edgar D. Mitchell Context triple: [Apollo 14, lunarModulePilot, Edgar D. Mitchell]
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A.
Harrison H. Schmitt
Harrison H. Schmitt is a geologist and former NASA astronaut who became the first professional scientist to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission.
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B.
Stuart A. Roosa
Stuart A. Roosa was a NASA astronaut and command module pilot on Apollo 14, known for orbiting the Moon while his crewmates explored the lunar surface.
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C.
James B. Irwin
James B. Irwin was a NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel who became the eighth person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission.
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D.
Fred Haise
Fred Haise is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the lunar module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
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E.
Alan L. Bean
Alan L. Bean was a NASA astronaut, lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, and the fourth person to walk on the Moon, who later became known for his space-themed artwork.
- 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: Edgar D. Mitchell Target entity description: Edgar D. Mitchell was a NASA astronaut, U.S. Navy officer, and the sixth person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
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A.
Harrison H. Schmitt
Harrison H. Schmitt is a geologist and former NASA astronaut who became the first professional scientist to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission.
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B.
Stuart A. Roosa
Stuart A. Roosa was a NASA astronaut and command module pilot on Apollo 14, known for orbiting the Moon while his crewmates explored the lunar surface.
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C.
James B. Irwin
James B. Irwin was a NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel who became the eighth person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission.
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D.
Fred Haise
Fred Haise is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the lunar module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
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E.
Alan L. Bean
Alan L. Bean was a NASA astronaut, lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, and the fourth person to walk on the Moon, who later became known for his space-themed artwork.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Edgar D. Mitchell Description of subject: Edgar D. Mitchell was a NASA astronaut, U.S. Navy officer, and the sixth person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edgar Mitchell
this entity surface form:
Edgar Mitchell
this entity surface form:
Edgar D. Mitchell – lunar module pilot
this entity surface form:
Edgar Mitchell
this entity surface form:
Dr. Edgar D. Mitchell