Ellen S. Baker
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Ellen S. Baker is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and later worked in NASA’s medical and health-related programs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ellen S. Baker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5906815 — 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: Ellen S. Baker Context triple: [STS-34, crewMember, Ellen S. Baker]
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A.
Mary M. Baker
Mary M. Baker is an individual known primarily as an alternate name or identity for Mary Morse Baker.
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B.
Dorothy M. Johnson
Dorothy M. Johnson was an American Western author best known for her influential short stories that inspired classic films such as "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and "A Man Called Horse."
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C.
Phoebe A. Bass
Phoebe A. Bass was the wife of Hiram Revels, the first African American U.S. senator and a prominent Reconstruction-era political and religious leader.
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D.
Margaret C. Etter
Margaret C. Etter was an influential American chemist and crystallographer known for pioneering work in hydrogen bonding and crystal engineering.
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E.
Alice S. Fisher
Alice S. Fisher is an American lawyer who served as a senior U.S. Department of Justice official overseeing federal criminal prosecutions during the George W. Bush administration.
- 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: Ellen S. Baker Target entity description: Ellen S. Baker is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and later worked in NASA’s medical and health-related programs.
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A.
Mary M. Baker
Mary M. Baker is an individual known primarily as an alternate name or identity for Mary Morse Baker.
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B.
Dorothy M. Johnson
Dorothy M. Johnson was an American Western author best known for her influential short stories that inspired classic films such as "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and "A Man Called Horse."
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C.
Phoebe A. Bass
Phoebe A. Bass was the wife of Hiram Revels, the first African American U.S. senator and a prominent Reconstruction-era political and religious leader.
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D.
Margaret C. Etter
Margaret C. Etter was an influential American chemist and crystallographer known for pioneering work in hydrogen bonding and crystal engineering.
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E.
Alice S. Fisher
Alice S. Fisher is an American lawyer who served as a senior U.S. Department of Justice official overseeing federal criminal prosecutions during the George W. Bush administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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human ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| affiliation | NASA Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Bryn Mawr College
NERFINISHED
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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Texas Medical Branch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
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NASA Johnson Space Center Medical Operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
medicine
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public health ⓘ space medicine ⓘ |
| givenName | Ellen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Doctor of Medicine
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Master of Public Health ⓘ |
| hasOccupationSpecialization |
aerospace medicine
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internal medicine ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
flew on three Space Shuttle missions
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served as mission specialist on STS-34 ⓘ served as mission specialist on STS-50 ⓘ served as mission specialist on STS-71 ⓘ |
| notableWork | medical and health-related programs at NASA ⓘ |
| numberOfSpaceMissions | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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flight surgeon ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
STS-34
NERFINISHED
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STS-50 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-71 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Houston, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spaceTimeDuration | over 686 hours in space ⓘ |
| wasAboard |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Houston, Texas
NERFINISHED
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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: Ellen S. Baker Description of subject: Ellen S. Baker is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and later worked in NASA’s medical and health-related programs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.