Stephen K. Robinson
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Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stephen K. Robinson canonical | 5 |
| Stephen Kern Robinson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5125561 — 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: Stephen K. Robinson Context triple: [STS-95, crewMember, Stephen K. Robinson]
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A.
Stephen J. Rivele
Stephen J. Rivele is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing acclaimed biographical and historical films such as "Nixon" and "Ali."
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B.
Douglas L. Meyer
Douglas L. Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the hit 2001 Broadway musical "The Producers."
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C.
Richard D. Smith
Richard D. Smith is a theatrical producer known for his work on the hit Broadway musical "The Producers."
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D.
Robert J. Kolenkow
Robert J. Kolenkow is a physicist and educator best known as the co-author of the influential undergraduate textbook "An Introduction to Mechanics."
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E.
David C. Robinson
David C. Robinson is a mathematical physicist known for his contributions to general relativity, particularly in the study of black hole uniqueness theorems.
- 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: Stephen K. Robinson Target entity description: Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
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A.
Stephen J. Rivele
Stephen J. Rivele is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing acclaimed biographical and historical films such as "Nixon" and "Ali."
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B.
Douglas L. Meyer
Douglas L. Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the hit 2001 Broadway musical "The Producers."
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C.
Richard D. Smith
Richard D. Smith is a theatrical producer known for his work on the hit Broadway musical "The Producers."
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D.
Robert J. Kolenkow
Robert J. Kolenkow is a physicist and educator best known as the co-author of the influential undergraduate textbook "An Introduction to Mechanics."
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E.
David C. Robinson
David C. Robinson is a mathematical physicist known for his contributions to general relativity, particularly in the study of black hole uniqueness theorems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ mechanical engineer ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicPosition | professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Davis ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of California, Davis ⓘ |
| awarded |
NASA Exceptional Service Medal
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NASA Space Flight Medal ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1955-10-26 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Sacramento, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Sacramento
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| degree |
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
ⓘ
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering ⓘ Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Davis ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
ⓘ
University of California, Davis ⓘ |
| familyName | Robinson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
ⓘ
spaceflight ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen ⓘ |
| hasCallSign |
Steve Robinson
ⓘ
linked to:
Stephen Robinson
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | no ⓘ |
| name |
Stephen Kern Robinson
ⓘ
linked to:
Stephen K. Robinson
|
| notableFor |
in-flight repair of Space Shuttle Discovery’s heat shield during STS-114
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participation in Space Shuttle mission STS-114, the Return to Flight mission after the Columbia disaster ⓘ spacewalks to repair and assemble the International Space Station ⓘ |
| occupation |
aerospace engineer
ⓘ
astronaut ⓘ mechanical engineer ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA Astronaut Group 14 ⓘ |
| position | mission specialist ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
aerospace vehicle design
ⓘ
human-robot interaction in space operations ⓘ |
| retiredFromNASA | 2012 ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronaut | 1992 ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-114
ⓘ
STS-130 ⓘ STS-85 ⓘ STS-95 ⓘ |
| spacewalkPerformed | yes ⓘ |
| totalEVAs | 3 ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | 34 days 15 hours 3 minutes ⓘ |
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: Stephen K. Robinson Description of subject: Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Stephen K. Robinson