Mae C. Jemison
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African American engineer
African American physician
African American scientist
NASA astronaut
astronaut
human
physician
Mae C. Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut who became the first African American woman to travel into space.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mae C. Jemison canonical | 5 |
| Mae Jemison | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7844437 — 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: Mae C. Jemison Context triple: [Spacelab-J, payloadSpecialist, Mae C. Jemison]
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A.
Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
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B.
Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer, former astronaut, and the first Hispanic woman to travel to space, who later served as director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
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C.
Kathryn D. Sullivan
Kathryn D. Sullivan is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, and the first American woman to walk in space.
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D.
Erika Leonard Mitchell
Erika Leonard Mitchell is the British author best known by her pen name E. L. James, under which she wrote the bestselling erotic romance series "Fifty Shades of Grey."
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E.
Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer who became the first woman of Indian origin in space and tragically died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
- 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: Mae C. Jemison Target entity description: Mae C. Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut who became the first African American woman to travel into space.
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A.
Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
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B.
Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer, former astronaut, and the first Hispanic woman to travel to space, who later served as director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
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C.
Kathryn D. Sullivan
Kathryn D. Sullivan is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, and the first American woman to walk in space.
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D.
Erika Leonard Mitchell
Erika Leonard Mitchell is the British author best known by her pen name E. L. James, under which she wrote the bestselling erotic romance series "Fifty Shades of Grey."
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E.
Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer who became the first woman of Indian origin in space and tragically died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Mae C. Jemison Description of subject: Mae C. Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut who became the first African American woman to travel into space.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mae C. Jemison