STS-41B
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STS-41B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission best known for the first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T249388 — 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-41B Context triple: [NASA Space Shuttle program, notableMission, STS-41B]
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STS-42
STS-42 was a 1992 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission focused on microgravity and life sciences research, notable for carrying Roberta Bondar as Canada’s first female astronaut in space.
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STS-1
STS-1 was the inaugural crewed mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, marking the first orbital test flight of the reusable orbiter Columbia in 1981.
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STS-135
STS-135 was the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, flown by Atlantis in 2011 to resupply the International Space Station and conclude the shuttle era.
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Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired NASA orbiter best known for launching the Hubble Space Telescope and conducting numerous key missions in the Space Shuttle program.
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E.
Skylab program
The Skylab program was NASA’s first space station initiative, focused on long-duration human spaceflight and scientific research in Earth orbit during the 1970s.
- 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-41B Target entity description: STS-41B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission best known for the first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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A.
STS-42
STS-42 was a 1992 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission focused on microgravity and life sciences research, notable for carrying Roberta Bondar as Canada’s first female astronaut in space.
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B.
STS-1
STS-1 was the inaugural crewed mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, marking the first orbital test flight of the reusable orbiter Columbia in 1981.
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C.
STS-135
STS-135 was the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, flown by Atlantis in 2011 to resupply the International Space Station and conclude the shuttle era.
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D.
Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired NASA orbiter best known for launching the Hubble Space Telescope and conducting numerous key missions in the Space Shuttle program.
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E.
Skylab program
The Skylab program was NASA’s first space station initiative, focused on long-duration human spaceflight and scientific research in Earth orbit during the 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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-41B Description of subject: STS-41B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission best known for the first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
STS-41-B
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STS-41-B
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