Mir-18
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Mir-18 was a long-duration 1995 spaceflight to the Russian Mir space station that included NASA astronaut Norman E. Thagard as the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mir-18 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5011895 — 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: Mir-18 Context triple: [Norman E. Thagard, spaceMission, Mir-18]
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A.
Meteor F.8
The Meteor F.8 was a late-model British jet fighter developed from the Gloster Meteor line, featuring improved performance and handling and serving widely with the Royal Air Force in the early Cold War era.
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B.
Guni
Guni is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a descendant within the tribe of Naphtali.
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C.
MH-26
MH-26 is the regional vehicle registration code assigned to the Nanded district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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D.
RGM-109 Tomahawk
The RGM-109 Tomahawk is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile primarily used by the U.S. Navy for precision land-attack missions launched from ships and submarines.
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E.
M51 Isherman
The M51 Isherman is an Israeli-upgraded version of the Sherman tank, fitted with a powerful 105 mm gun and modernized systems for improved performance in mid-20th-century conflicts.
- 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: Mir-18 Target entity description: Mir-18 was a long-duration 1995 spaceflight to the Russian Mir space station that included NASA astronaut Norman E. Thagard as the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
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A.
Meteor F.8
The Meteor F.8 was a late-model British jet fighter developed from the Gloster Meteor line, featuring improved performance and handling and serving widely with the Royal Air Force in the early Cold War era.
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B.
Guni
Guni is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a descendant within the tribe of Naphtali.
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C.
MH-26
MH-26 is the regional vehicle registration code assigned to the Nanded district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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D.
RGM-109 Tomahawk
The RGM-109 Tomahawk is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile primarily used by the U.S. Navy for precision land-attack missions launched from ships and submarines.
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E.
M51 Isherman
The M51 Isherman is an Israeli-upgraded version of the Sherman tank, fitted with a powerful 105 mm gun and modernized systems for improved performance in mid-20th-century conflicts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mir expedition
ⓘ
long-duration spaceflight ⓘ spaceflight ⓘ |
| collaboration | Russia–United States space cooperation ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| crewCount | 3 ⓘ |
| destination |
Mir space station
ⓘ
low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| era | post-Soviet Russian space program ⓘ |
| firstAmericanOnRussianSpacecraft | Norman E. Thagard ⓘ |
| followedBy | later Mir-NASA missions ⓘ |
| includedAstronaut | Norman E. Thagard ⓘ |
| includedCosmonaut |
Gennady Strekalov
ⓘ
Vladimir Dezhurov ⓘ |
| internationalParticipation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| launchVehicle |
Soyuz launch vehicle
ⓘ
linked to:
Soyuz rocket
|
| launchYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| notableFor | first flight of an American astronaut on a Russian spacecraft ⓘ |
| precededBy | earlier Mir expeditions ⓘ |
| program | Mir-NASA program ⓘ |
| scientificActivities |
life sciences experiments
ⓘ
microgravity research ⓘ technology demonstrations ⓘ |
| spaceAgency |
NASA
ⓘ
Russian Federal Space Agency ⓘ
linked to:
Roscosmos
|
| spacecraftType | Soyuz spacecraft ⓘ |
| spaceStation | Mir ⓘ |
| spaceStationProgram | Mir program ⓘ |
| typeOfMission |
crew transport
ⓘ
space station expedition ⓘ |
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: Mir-18 Description of subject: Mir-18 was a long-duration 1995 spaceflight to the Russian Mir space station that included NASA astronaut Norman E. Thagard as the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Thagard