STS-109
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STS-109 was a NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission in 2002 that upgraded and refurbished the Hubble Space Telescope, significantly enhancing its scientific capabilities.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-109 canonical | 16 |
| Space Shuttle mission STS-109 | 2 |
| Hubble Servicing Mission 3B | 1 |
| STS-109 (Servicing Mission 3B, 2002) | 1 |
| Second Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission | 1 |
| Space Shuttle Columbia crew of STS-109 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T364157 — 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-109 Context triple: [Hubble Space Telescope, servicingMission, STS-109]
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A.
STS-103
STS-103 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 1999 dedicated to repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope to extend its operational life and scientific capabilities.
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B.
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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C.
STS-114
STS-114 was NASA’s 2005 Space Shuttle Discovery “Return to Flight” mission that marked the resumption of shuttle operations after the Columbia disaster, focusing on testing new safety procedures and resupplying the International Space Station.
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D.
STS-88
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, delivering and assembling its initial U.S. and Russian modules in orbit.
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E.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
- 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-109 Target entity description: STS-109 was a NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission in 2002 that upgraded and refurbished the Hubble Space Telescope, significantly enhancing its scientific capabilities.
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A.
STS-103
STS-103 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 1999 dedicated to repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope to extend its operational life and scientific capabilities.
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B.
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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C.
STS-114
STS-114 was NASA’s 2005 Space Shuttle Discovery “Return to Flight” mission that marked the resumption of shuttle operations after the Columbia disaster, focusing on testing new safety procedures and resupplying the International Space Station.
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D.
STS-88
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, delivering and assembling its initial U.S. and Russian modules in orbit.
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E.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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-109 Description of subject: STS-109 was a NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission in 2002 that upgraded and refurbished the Hubble Space Telescope, significantly enhancing its scientific capabilities.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hubble Servicing Mission 3B
this entity surface form:
Second Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission
subject surface form:
COSTAR
this entity surface form:
Space Shuttle mission STS-109
this entity surface form:
Space Shuttle mission STS-109
this entity surface form:
Space Shuttle Columbia crew of STS-109
this entity surface form:
STS-109 (Servicing Mission 3B, 2002)