Duane G. Carey
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Duane G. Carey is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who flew as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia on the STS-109 Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duane G. Carey canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2389170 — 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: Duane G. Carey Context triple: [STS-109, pilot, Duane G. Carey]
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A.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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B.
Thomas E. Ackerman
Thomas E. Ackerman is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the dark comedy-fantasy "Beetlejuice."
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C.
Arden L. Bement Jr.
Arden L. Bement Jr. is an American engineer and public servant best known for leading major U.S. science and engineering agencies, including serving as director of the National Science Foundation.
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D.
Ronald L. Vaughn
Ronald L. Vaughn is an American academic administrator best known for leading the University of Tampa through significant growth and development as its long-serving president.
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E.
Bradford M. Durfee
Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
- 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: Duane G. Carey Target entity description: Duane G. Carey is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who flew as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia on the STS-109 Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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A.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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B.
Thomas E. Ackerman
Thomas E. Ackerman is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the dark comedy-fantasy "Beetlejuice."
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C.
Arden L. Bement Jr.
Arden L. Bement Jr. is an American engineer and public servant best known for leading major U.S. science and engineering agencies, including serving as director of the National Science Foundation.
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D.
Ronald L. Vaughn
Ronald L. Vaughn is an American academic administrator best known for leading the University of Tampa through significant growth and development as its long-serving president.
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E.
Bradford M. Durfee
Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education |
Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering
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Master of Science in aerospace engineering ⓘ |
| employer |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NERFINISHED
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United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | aerospace ⓘ |
| givenName | Duane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFlownOn | Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRankAtRetirement | lieutenant colonel, United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Gulf War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant colonel ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Air Medal
NERFINISHED
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Defense Superior Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
career as a U.S. Air Force fighter and test pilot
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piloting STS-109 Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission ⓘ service as a NASA Space Shuttle pilot ⓘ |
| notableWork | STS-109 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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fighter pilot ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission STS-109
NERFINISHED
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STS-109 NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Space Shuttle pilot ⓘ |
| retiredFrom |
NASA Astronaut Corps
NERFINISHED
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United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronautBy | NASA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectionYearAsAstronaut | 1996 ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceMissionRole | pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-109 ⓘ |
| spaceTimeDuration | approximately 10 days on STS-109 ⓘ |
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: Duane G. Carey Description of subject: Duane G. Carey is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who flew as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia on the STS-109 Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.