Michael R. Clifford
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Michael R. Clifford was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Army officer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s and became known for continuing to fly in space after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael R. Clifford canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6121637 — 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 R. Clifford Context triple: [STS-76, missionSpecialist, Michael R. Clifford]
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A.
Timothy J. Clayton
Timothy J. Clayton is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, likely as an author or scholar.
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B.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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C.
Michael R. Quinlan
Michael R. Quinlan is an American business executive and Loyola University Chicago alumnus best known for serving as CEO and chairman of McDonald’s Corporation.
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D.
J. R. Clifford
J. R. Clifford was a pioneering African American lawyer, civil rights activist, and newspaper editor who played a significant role in early 20th-century Black civil rights movements, including leadership in the Niagara Movement.
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E.
Michael A. Elliott
Michael A. Elliott is an American literary scholar and academic administrator who serves as the president of Amherst College.
- 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 R. Clifford Target entity description: Michael R. Clifford was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Army officer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s and became known for continuing to fly in space after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
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A.
Timothy J. Clayton
Timothy J. Clayton is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, likely as an author or scholar.
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B.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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C.
Michael R. Quinlan
Michael R. Quinlan is an American business executive and Loyola University Chicago alumnus best known for serving as CEO and chairman of McDonald’s Corporation.
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D.
J. R. Clifford
J. R. Clifford was a pioneering African American lawyer, civil rights activist, and newspaper editor who played a significant role in early 20th-century Black civil rights movements, including leadership in the Niagara Movement.
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E.
Michael A. Elliott
Michael A. Elliott is an American literary scholar and academic administrator who serves as the president of Amherst College.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Army officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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linked to:
NASA
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| familyName | Clifford ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
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spaceflight ⓘ |
| genre | human spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasActivityPeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| hasDiagnosis |
Parkinson’s disease
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linked to:
Parkinson's disease
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| medicalCondition |
Parkinson’s disease
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linked to:
Parkinson's disease
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| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
continued active astronaut service after Parkinson’s diagnosis
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participation in three Space Shuttle flights ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy and visibility for people with Parkinson’s disease in high-performance careers
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flying in space after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease ⓘ |
| notableWork | Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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military officer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Space Shuttle program
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linked to:
NASA Space Shuttle program
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Space Shuttle mission STS-53
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Space Shuttle mission STS-59 ⓘ Space Shuttle mission STS-76 ⓘ |
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 R. Clifford Description of subject: Michael R. Clifford was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Army officer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s and became known for continuing to fly in space after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.