Steven R. Nagel
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Steven R. Nagel was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force pilot who flew on four Space Shuttle missions and later served in leadership roles within the astronaut corps.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steven R. Nagel canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5853835 — 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: Steven R. Nagel Context triple: [STS-51-G, crewMember, Steven R. Nagel]
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A.
Nigel Goldenfeld
Nigel Goldenfeld is a theoretical physicist known for his influential work in statistical physics, complex systems, and fluid dynamics.
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B.
Michael T. Sauer
Michael T. Sauer was an American judge best known for presiding over high-profile criminal cases in Los Angeles County.
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C.
Bruce H. Mann
Bruce H. Mann is an American legal historian and Harvard Law School professor known for his scholarship on early American legal and economic history and for being married to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.
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D.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
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E.
Nadrian Seeman
Nadrian Seeman was a pioneering chemist and nanotechnologist best known for founding the field of DNA nanotechnology by using DNA to create designed nanoscale structures and devices.
- 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: Steven R. Nagel Target entity description: Steven R. Nagel was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force pilot who flew on four Space Shuttle missions and later served in leadership roles within the astronaut corps.
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A.
Nigel Goldenfeld
Nigel Goldenfeld is a theoretical physicist known for his influential work in statistical physics, complex systems, and fluid dynamics.
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B.
Michael T. Sauer
Michael T. Sauer was an American judge best known for presiding over high-profile criminal cases in Los Angeles County.
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C.
Bruce H. Mann
Bruce H. Mann is an American legal historian and Harvard Law School professor known for his scholarship on early American legal and economic history and for being married to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.
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D.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
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E.
Nadrian Seeman
Nadrian Seeman was a pioneering chemist and nanotechnologist best known for founding the field of DNA nanotechnology by using DNA to create designed nanoscale structures and devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Air Force officer ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ military aviator ⓘ |
| astronautGroup | NASA Astronaut Group 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Medal
NERFINISHED
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Defense Superior Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-10-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2014-08-21 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer | National Aeronautics and Space Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Nagel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace
ⓘ
spaceflight operations ⓘ |
| fullName | Steven Ray Nagel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Steven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldPosition | leadership roles in the NASA astronaut office ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| numberOfSpaceFlights | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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fighter pilot ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Canton, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Columbia, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInMission |
commander on STS-37
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commander on STS-55 ⓘ pilot on STS-51G ⓘ pilot on STS-61A ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronaut | 1978 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-37
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
STS-51G NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-55 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-61A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleFlown |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Challenger NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Linda M. Godwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAt | Johnson Space Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Steven R. Nagel Description of subject: Steven R. Nagel was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force pilot who flew on four Space Shuttle missions and later served in leadership roles within the astronaut corps.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.