STS-77
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STS-77 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission focused on microgravity research and technology demonstrations in low Earth orbit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-77 canonical | 2 |
| Space Shuttle mission STS-77 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6121629 — 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-77 Context triple: [STS-76, followedBy, STS-77]
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A.
STS-97
STS-97 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that delivered and installed the first set of U.S.-built solar arrays to the International Space Station, significantly increasing the station’s power capacity.
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B.
STS-74
STS-74 was a 1995 NASA Space Shuttle mission that carried Atlantis to the Russian Mir space station to deliver supplies and a docking module as part of early Shuttle–Mir cooperation.
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C.
STS-76
STS-76 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering astronaut Shannon Lucid to the Russian Mir space station for a long-duration stay.
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D.
STS-79
STS-79 was a 1996 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering supplies to the Russian Mir space station and returning astronaut Shannon Lucid to Earth after her long-duration stay in orbit.
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E.
STS-75
STS-75 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission notable for the Tethered Satellite System experiment, which studied electrodynamic effects in the upper atmosphere.
- 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-77 Target entity description: STS-77 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission focused on microgravity research and technology demonstrations in low Earth orbit.
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A.
STS-97
STS-97 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that delivered and installed the first set of U.S.-built solar arrays to the International Space Station, significantly increasing the station’s power capacity.
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B.
STS-74
STS-74 was a 1995 NASA Space Shuttle mission that carried Atlantis to the Russian Mir space station to deliver supplies and a docking module as part of early Shuttle–Mir cooperation.
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C.
STS-76
STS-76 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering astronaut Shannon Lucid to the Russian Mir space station for a long-duration stay.
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D.
STS-79
STS-79 was a 1996 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering supplies to the Russian Mir space station and returning astronaut Shannon Lucid to Earth after her long-duration stay in orbit.
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E.
STS-75
STS-75 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission notable for the Tethered Satellite System experiment, which studied electrodynamic effects in the upper atmosphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA spaceflight
ⓘ
Space Shuttle mission ⓘ |
| carriedPayload |
Biological Research in Canisters (BRIC)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Commercial Float Zone Furnace NERFINISHED ⓘ Inflatable Antenna Experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ Plant growth experiments ⓘ SPACEHAB-4 module NERFINISHED ⓘ SPARTAN-207 free-flyer NERFINISHED ⓘ Technology Experiments for Advancing Missions in Space (TEAMS) payloads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | John H. Casper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewMember |
Andrew S. W. Thomas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Curtis L. Brown Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Daniel W. Bursch NERFINISHED ⓘ John H. Casper NERFINISHED ⓘ Marc Garneau NERFINISHED ⓘ Mario Runco Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 6 ⓘ |
| followedBy | STS-78 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1996-05-29 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1996-05-19 ⓘ |
| launchLocation | Kennedy Space Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchPad | LC-39B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchTimeUTC | 1996-05-19T10:30:00Z ⓘ |
| missionDuration |
10 days
ⓘ
10 days 0 hours 40 minutes ⓘ |
| missionNumber | 77 ⓘ |
| missionSpecialist |
Andrew S. W. Thomas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Daniel W. Bursch NERFINISHED ⓘ Marc Garneau NERFINISHED ⓘ Mario Runco Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionType |
microgravity research
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technology demonstration ⓘ |
| notableExperiment |
Inflatable Antenna Experiment deployment and evaluation
ⓘ
SPARTAN-207 deployment and retrieval ⓘ commercial microgravity research in SPACEHAB module ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbit | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| orbitApogee | approximately 289 km ⓘ |
| orbiterFlightNumber | Endeavour flight 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitInclination | 39.0 degrees ⓘ |
| orbitPerigee | approximately 278 km ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 161 ⓘ |
| pilot | Curtis L. Brown Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | STS-76 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
microgravity research in low Earth orbit
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technology demonstrations in space ⓘ |
| program |
NASA Space Shuttle program
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surface form:
Space Shuttle program
|
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Space Shuttle Endeavour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleOrbiter | Endeavour 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: STS-77 Description of subject: STS-77 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission focused on microgravity research and technology demonstrations in low Earth orbit.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Space Shuttle mission STS-77