STS-28
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STS-28 was a 1989 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission that deployed a classified Department of Defense payload in low Earth orbit.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-28 canonical | 7 |
| Space Shuttle mission STS-28 | 2 |
| Space Shuttle Columbia STS-28 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5906825 — 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-28 Context triple: [STS-34, precededBy, STS-28]
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A.
STS-27
STS-27 was a 1988 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission primarily dedicated to a classified Department of Defense payload.
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B.
STS-58
STS-58 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on life sciences research, particularly the effects of spaceflight on the human body.
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C.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
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D.
STS-8
STS-8 was a 1983 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission notable for carrying the first African American astronaut, Guion S. Bluford, into space and deploying the Indian INSAT-1B communications satellite.
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E.
STS-37
STS-37 was a 1991 NASA Space Shuttle mission that deployed the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and conducted various scientific experiments in 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-28 Target entity description: STS-28 was a 1989 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission that deployed a classified Department of Defense payload in low Earth orbit.
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A.
STS-27
STS-27 was a 1988 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission primarily dedicated to a classified Department of Defense payload.
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B.
STS-58
STS-58 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on life sciences research, particularly the effects of spaceflight on the human body.
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C.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
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D.
STS-8
STS-8 was a 1983 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission notable for carrying the first African American astronaut, Guion S. Bluford, into space and deploying the Indian INSAT-1B communications satellite.
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E.
STS-37
STS-37 was a 1991 NASA Space Shuttle mission that deployed the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and conducted various scientific experiments in low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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-28 Description of subject: STS-28 was a 1989 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission that deployed a classified Department of Defense payload in low Earth orbit.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.