David M. Walker
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David M. Walker was a United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David M. Walker canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7574499 — 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: David M. Walker Context triple: [Westar 6, associatedAstronaut, David M. Walker]
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A.
David T. Walker
David T. Walker is an American soul and jazz guitarist known for his smooth, expressive playing and extensive session work with major artists since the 1960s.
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B.
Arthur C. Walker Jr.
Arthur C. Walker Jr. was an American physicist and solar scientist known for his pioneering work in X-ray and ultraviolet imaging of the sun and for serving on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
William R. Wilkerson
William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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D.
Charles M. Allen
Charles M. Allen was a United States federal judge who served on the bench in Kentucky prior to the tenure of Judge John G. Heyburn II.
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E.
Dennis C. Brown
Dennis C. Brown is a television and film composer best known for scoring the long-running animated series "South Park."
- 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: David M. Walker Target entity description: David M. Walker was a United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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A.
David T. Walker
David T. Walker is an American soul and jazz guitarist known for his smooth, expressive playing and extensive session work with major artists since the 1960s.
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B.
Arthur C. Walker Jr.
Arthur C. Walker Jr. was an American physicist and solar scientist known for his pioneering work in X-ray and ultraviolet imaging of the sun and for serving on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
William R. Wilkerson
William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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D.
Charles M. Allen
Charles M. Allen was a United States federal judge who served on the bench in Kentucky prior to the tenure of Judge John G. Heyburn II.
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E.
Dennis C. Brown
Dennis C. Brown is a television and film composer best known for scoring the long-running animated series "South Park."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: David M. Walker Description of subject: David M. Walker was a United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.