Jack R. Lousma
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Jack R. Lousma is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer best known for serving as pilot on the Skylab 3 space station mission and later commanding the Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-3.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack R. Lousma canonical | 3 |
| Dr. Jack R. Lousma | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6595043 — 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: Jack R. Lousma Context triple: [Skylab 3, crewMember, Jack R. Lousma]
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A.
Clayton C. Anderson
Clayton C. Anderson is a retired NASA astronaut and engineer who spent time aboard the International Space Station and flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
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B.
Richard F. Gordon Jr.
Richard F. Gordon Jr. was a U.S. Navy fighter pilot, NASA astronaut, and command module pilot of Apollo 12 who played a key role in the early Apollo lunar program.
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C.
Joe Engle
Joe Engle is an American astronaut and test pilot best known for flying the X-15 rocket plane and commanding early Space Shuttle missions.
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D.
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
Jeffrey A. Hoffman is an American NASA astronaut and astrophysicist best known for his multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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E.
Dr. Jerome Lovell
Dr. Jerome Lovell is a fictional physician and central character in the film "Nell," who discovers and attempts to help a reclusive young woman raised in isolation.
- 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: Jack R. Lousma Target entity description: Jack R. Lousma is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer best known for serving as pilot on the Skylab 3 space station mission and later commanding the Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-3.
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A.
Clayton C. Anderson
Clayton C. Anderson is a retired NASA astronaut and engineer who spent time aboard the International Space Station and flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
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B.
Richard F. Gordon Jr.
Richard F. Gordon Jr. was a U.S. Navy fighter pilot, NASA astronaut, and command module pilot of Apollo 12 who played a key role in the early Apollo lunar program.
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C.
Joe Engle
Joe Engle is an American astronaut and test pilot best known for flying the X-15 rocket plane and commanding early Space Shuttle missions.
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D.
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
Jeffrey A. Hoffman is an American NASA astronaut and astrophysicist best known for his multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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E.
Dr. Jerome Lovell
Dr. Jerome Lovell is a fictional physician and central character in the film "Nell," who discovers and attempts to help a reclusive young woman raised in isolation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Marine Corps officer ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
NERFINISHED
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NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Navy Air Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Navy Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-02-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Michigan ⓘ |
| employer |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Marine Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lousma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | aeronautical engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | Jack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| missionEnd |
STS-3: 1982-03-30
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Skylab 3: 1973-09-25 ⓘ |
| missionStart |
STS-3: 1982-03-22
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Skylab 3: 1973-07-28 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEVAs | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA Astronaut Group 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedExtravehicularActivity | yes ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalActivity | ran for U.S. Senate from Michigan in 1984 ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| residence | Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInMission |
commander on STS-3
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pilot on Skylab 3 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spacecraftFlown |
Skylab space station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-3
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Skylab 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleMission | STS-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStationMission | Skylab 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeInSpace | over 1,619 hours ⓘ |
| wasBornOn | 1936-02-29 ⓘ |
| wasSelectedAsAstronautIn | 1966 ⓘ |
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: Jack R. Lousma Description of subject: Jack R. Lousma is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer best known for serving as pilot on the Skylab 3 space station mission and later commanding the Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-3.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dr. Jack R. Lousma