Jeana Yeager
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Jeana Yeager is an American aviator best known for co-piloting the Rutan Voyager on the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world in 1986.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeana Yeager canonical | 8 |
| copilot Jeana Yeager | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3966110 — 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: Jeana Yeager Context triple: [Rutan Voyager, designer, Jeana Yeager]
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A.
Mary Yeager
Mary Yeager is an American history professor best known as the longtime wife of actor John Lithgow.
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B.
Marilyn Lovell
Marilyn Lovell is the wife of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, known for her role in supporting him and their family during his NASA career and the historic mission crisis.
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C.
Eileen Collins
Eileen Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force colonel who became the first woman to pilot and later command a Space Shuttle mission.
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D.
Laurel B. Clark
Laurel B. Clark was a U.S. Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle Columbia and died in the STS-107 disaster in 2003.
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E.
Kathryn Scobee
Kathryn Scobee is the daughter of Francis R. Scobee, the NASA astronaut and commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger's final mission.
- 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: Jeana Yeager Target entity description: Jeana Yeager is an American aviator best known for co-piloting the Rutan Voyager on the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world in 1986.
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A.
Mary Yeager
Mary Yeager is an American history professor best known as the longtime wife of actor John Lithgow.
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B.
Marilyn Lovell
Marilyn Lovell is the wife of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, known for her role in supporting him and their family during his NASA career and the historic mission crisis.
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C.
Eileen Collins
Eileen Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force colonel who became the first woman to pilot and later command a Space Shuttle mission.
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D.
Laurel B. Clark
Laurel B. Clark was a U.S. Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle Columbia and died in the STS-107 disaster in 2003.
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E.
Kathryn Scobee
Kathryn Scobee is the daughter of Francis R. Scobee, the NASA astronaut and commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger's final mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviator
ⓘ
human ⓘ record-setting pilot ⓘ |
| aircraftRegistrationInvolved |
Rutan Voyager
ⓘ
surface form:
Rutan Model 76 Voyager
|
| aircraftTypeFlown | experimental aircraft ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Burt Rutan
ⓘ
Rutan Aircraft Factory ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Collier Trophy
ⓘ
De la Vaulx Medal ⓘ FAI Gold Air Medal ⓘ Harmon Trophy ⓘ National Aeronautic Association Special Award ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Mojave, California
ⓘ
surface form:
Mojave, California (during Voyager project)
|
| coPilotedAircraft | Rutan Voyager ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-05-18 ⓘ |
| distanceRecord | over 26,000 statute miles (Voyager flight) ⓘ |
| familyName | Yeager ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
ⓘ
aviation ⓘ |
| flightDuration | 9 days ⓘ |
| flightEndDate | 1986-12-23 ⓘ |
| flightRoute | around the world ⓘ |
| flightStartDate | 1986-12-14 ⓘ |
| genreOfNotability | long-distance flight ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeana ⓘ |
| hasHonor | induction into the National Aviation Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| hasRelative | not related to Chuck Yeager ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-piloting the Rutan Voyager on the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world ⓘ |
| landingLocation | Edwards Air Force Base ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance | featured in aviation documentaries about the Voyager flight ⓘ |
| name | Jeana Yeager self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helped design and test the Rutan Voyager aircraft ⓘ |
| notableEvent | completion of the first nonstop, non-refueled circumnavigation of the Earth by airplane ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Rutan Voyager
ⓘ
surface form:
Rutan Voyager nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world
|
| occupation |
aviator
ⓘ
pilot ⓘ |
| partnerInRecordFlight | Dick Rutan ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Fort Worth, Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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| recordDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| recordSet | first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world ⓘ |
| recordType | aviation distance record ⓘ |
| residence |
The Californias (historical)
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surface form:
California (historical)
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| takeoffLocation | Edwards Air Force Base ⓘ |
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: Jeana Yeager Description of subject: Jeana Yeager is an American aviator best known for co-piloting the Rutan Voyager on the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world in 1986.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
copilot Jeana Yeager