Maurizio Cheli
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Maurizio Cheli is an Italian test pilot and former European Space Agency astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle mission STS-75.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maurizio Cheli canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3875747 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurizio Cheli Context triple: [European Astronaut Corps, notableMember, Maurizio Cheli]
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A.
Roberto Farinacci
Roberto Farinacci was a prominent and notoriously hardline Italian Fascist politician and journalist who became one of Benito Mussolini’s most radical and influential lieutenants.
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B.
Stefano Pessina
Stefano Pessina is an Italian-Monegasque billionaire businessman best known as the longtime leader and major shareholder behind the global pharmacy and retail group Walgreens Boots Alliance.
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C.
Franco Antonicelli
Franco Antonicelli was an Italian intellectual, publisher, and anti-fascist activist known for promoting important 20th-century literature and political thought.
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D.
Gianfranco Franchini
Gianfranco Franchini was an Italian architect best known as one of the co-designers of Paris’s iconic Centre Pompidou.
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E.
Riccardo Lombardi
Riccardo Lombardi was a prominent Italian socialist politician and intellectual, known for his leadership within the Italian Socialist Party and his advocacy of democratic socialism and progressive reforms in postwar Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurizio Cheli Target entity description: Maurizio Cheli is an Italian test pilot and former European Space Agency astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle mission STS-75.
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A.
Roberto Farinacci
Roberto Farinacci was a prominent and notoriously hardline Italian Fascist politician and journalist who became one of Benito Mussolini’s most radical and influential lieutenants.
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B.
Stefano Pessina
Stefano Pessina is an Italian-Monegasque billionaire businessman best known as the longtime leader and major shareholder behind the global pharmacy and retail group Walgreens Boots Alliance.
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C.
Franco Antonicelli
Franco Antonicelli was an Italian intellectual, publisher, and anti-fascist activist known for promoting important 20th-century literature and political thought.
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D.
Gianfranco Franchini
Gianfranco Franchini was an Italian architect best known as one of the co-designers of Paris’s iconic Centre Pompidou.
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E.
Riccardo Lombardi
Riccardo Lombardi was a prominent Italian socialist politician and intellectual, known for his leadership within the Italian Socialist Party and his advocacy of democratic socialism and progressive reforms in postwar Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian military officer
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astronaut ⓘ human ⓘ |
| astronautSelectionYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Italy ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-05-04 ⓘ |
| degree | aeronautical engineering ⓘ |
| education |
Empire Test Pilots’ School
NERFINISHED
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Italian Air Force Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ Politecnico di Torino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | European Space Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace
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flight testing ⓘ spaceflight ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFlownAircraftType |
Eurofighter Typhoon
NERFINISHED
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Panavia Tornado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Italian Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| name | Maurizio Cheli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Italian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first Italian ESA astronaut to fly on the Space Shuttle
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participation in the Tethered Satellite System mission ⓘ |
| occupation |
aerospace engineer
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astronaut ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Emilia-Romagna
NERFINISHED
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Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ Modena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postRetirementActivity | aerospace entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| roleInMission | mission specialist on STS-75 ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronautBy | European Space Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceAgency |
European Space Agency
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NASA ⓘ |
| spaceflight |
STS-75 Tethered Satellite System mission
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceflightEndDate | 1996-03-09 ⓘ |
| spaceflightStartDate | 1996-02-22 ⓘ |
| spaceMission | STS-75 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | 15 days 17 hours 41 minutes ⓘ |
| trainedAs |
fighter pilot
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test pilot ⓘ |
| workedFor |
Alenia Aeronautica
NERFINISHED
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Eurofighter programme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Maurizio Cheli Description of subject: Maurizio Cheli is an Italian test pilot and former European Space Agency astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle mission STS-75.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.