Michael A. Baker
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Michael A. Baker is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael A. Baker canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6015186 — 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: Michael A. Baker Context triple: [STS-43, pilot, Michael A. Baker]
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A.
Stephen K. Robinson
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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B.
David H. Brown
David H. Brown was one of the defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial tensions, self-defense, and housing segregation.
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C.
Barry K. Carpenter
Barry K. Carpenter is a theoretical and physical chemist known for his work on reaction mechanisms and potential energy surfaces in organic and organometallic chemistry.
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D.
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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E.
Stephen G. Bowen
Stephen G. Bowen is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Navy submariner who has flown multiple Space Shuttle missions and commanded SpaceX Crew-6 to the International Space Station.
- 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: Michael A. Baker Target entity description: Michael A. Baker is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s.
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A.
Stephen K. Robinson
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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B.
David H. Brown
David H. Brown was one of the defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial tensions, self-defense, and housing segregation.
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C.
Barry K. Carpenter
Barry K. Carpenter is a theoretical and physical chemist known for his work on reaction mechanisms and potential energy surfaces in organic and organometallic chemistry.
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D.
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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E.
Stephen G. Bowen
Stephen G. Bowen is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Navy submariner who has flown multiple Space Shuttle missions and commanded SpaceX Crew-6 to the International Space Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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human ⓘ military aviator ⓘ naval officer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| affiliation |
NASA
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA
United States Navy ⓘ |
| familyName | Baker ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace
ⓘ
space exploration ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasExperience |
naval aviation
ⓘ
spaceflight operations ⓘ test piloting ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions
ⓘ
reached low Earth orbit aboard the Space Shuttle ⓘ served as a NASA astronaut during the 1990s ⓘ |
| notableRole | Space Shuttle astronaut ⓘ |
| notableWork | Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
naval officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participantIn |
STS-43
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STS-52 ⓘ STS-68 ⓘ STS-81 ⓘ Space Shuttle program ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Space Shuttle program
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-43
ⓘ
STS-52 ⓘ STS-68 ⓘ STS-81 ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Houston, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston, Texas, United States
Johnson Space Center ⓘ |
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: Michael A. Baker Description of subject: Michael A. Baker is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.