Rick D. Husband
E76075
Rick D. Husband was a U.S. Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its ill-fated STS-107 mission.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rick D. Husband canonical | 12 |
| Rick Douglas Husband | 1 |
| Space Shuttle Columbia commander | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T590716 — 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: Rick D. Husband Context triple: [Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial, dedicatedTo, Rick D. Husband]
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A.
Francis R. Scobee
Francis R. Scobee was a United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s final mission, STS-51-L.
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B.
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-41-B and was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
Judith Resnik
Judith Resnik was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut who became one of the first American women in space and tragically died during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
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D.
Ken Mattingly
Ken Mattingly was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral best known for his roles in the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, including serving as command module pilot on Apollo 16.
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E.
Ellison Onizuka
Ellison Onizuka was an American astronaut and aerospace engineer who became the first Asian American and first person of Japanese ancestry to fly in space.
- 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: Rick D. Husband Target entity description: Rick D. Husband was a U.S. Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its ill-fated STS-107 mission.
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A.
Francis R. Scobee
Francis R. Scobee was a United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s final mission, STS-51-L.
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B.
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-41-B and was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
Judith Resnik
Judith Resnik was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut who became one of the first American women in space and tragically died during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
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D.
Ken Mattingly
Ken Mattingly was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral best known for his roles in the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, including serving as command module pilot on Apollo 16.
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E.
Ellison Onizuka
Ellison Onizuka was an American astronaut and aerospace engineer who became the first Asian American and first person of Japanese ancestry to fly in space.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Rick D. Husband Description of subject: Rick D. Husband was a U.S. Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its ill-fated STS-107 mission.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rick Douglas Husband
subject surface form:
Husband Hill
subject surface form:
Husband Hill
this entity surface form:
Space Shuttle Columbia commander