NASA Astronaut Group 18
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NASA Astronaut Group 18 is a class of NASA astronauts selected in 2000, often nicknamed "The Bugs," which includes spacefarers such as Douglas Hurley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NASA Astronaut Group 18 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9635311 — 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: NASA Astronaut Group 18 Context triple: [Douglas Hurley, astronautGroup, NASA Astronaut Group 18]
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A.
NASA Astronaut Group 8
NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a 1978 class of NASA astronauts notable for including the first American women and minority astronauts, marking a major step toward a more diverse astronaut corps.
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B.
NASA Astronaut Group 10
NASA Astronaut Group 10 is a cohort of NASA astronauts selected in 1984, notable for including many who later flew multiple Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions.
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C.
NASA Astronaut Group 1
NASA Astronaut Group 1 was the original group of seven U.S. astronauts selected in 1959, known as the Mercury Seven, who pioneered America’s first human spaceflights.
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D.
NASA Astronaut Group 6
NASA Astronaut Group 6 was a 1967 class of NASA astronauts that included several future Apollo lunar mission crew members.
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E.
NASA Astronaut Group 2
NASA Astronaut Group 2 was the second cohort of American astronauts, selected in 1962, that provided many of the key crew members for the Apollo lunar missions.
- 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: NASA Astronaut Group 18 Target entity description: NASA Astronaut Group 18 is a class of NASA astronauts selected in 2000, often nicknamed "The Bugs," which includes spacefarers such as Douglas Hurley.
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A.
NASA Astronaut Group 8
NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a 1978 class of NASA astronauts notable for including the first American women and minority astronauts, marking a major step toward a more diverse astronaut corps.
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B.
NASA Astronaut Group 10
NASA Astronaut Group 10 is a cohort of NASA astronauts selected in 1984, notable for including many who later flew multiple Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions.
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C.
NASA Astronaut Group 1
NASA Astronaut Group 1 was the original group of seven U.S. astronauts selected in 1959, known as the Mercury Seven, who pioneered America’s first human spaceflights.
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D.
NASA Astronaut Group 6
NASA Astronaut Group 6 was a 1967 class of NASA astronauts that included several future Apollo lunar mission crew members.
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E.
NASA Astronaut Group 2
NASA Astronaut Group 2 was the second cohort of American astronauts, selected in 1962, that provided many of the key crew members for the Apollo lunar missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | NASA astronaut group ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| language | English ⓘ |
| laterProgramParticipation |
Commercial Crew Program
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
International Space Station program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| member |
Carlos I. Noriega
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clayton C. Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Daniel M. Tani NERFINISHED ⓘ Douglas G. Hurley NERFINISHED ⓘ Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper NERFINISHED ⓘ James F. Reilly NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffrey N. Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Leroy Chiao NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark E. Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael E. Fossum NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggy A. Whitson NERFINISHED ⓘ Piers J. Sellers NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandra H. Magnus NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunita L. Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Timothy J. Creamer NERFINISHED ⓘ Tracy E. Caldwell Dyson NERFINISHED ⓘ William S. McArthur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberCount | 17 ⓘ |
| memberType |
NASA career astronaut
ⓘ
NASA mission specialist ⓘ NASA pilot astronaut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | The Bugs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMissionOfMember |
Demo-2
GENERATED
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STS-135 GENERATED ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectionAgency | NASA Johnson Space Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectionType | NASA Group selection ⓘ |
| selectionYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleEra | Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trainingLocation | Johnson Space Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: NASA Astronaut Group 18 Description of subject: NASA Astronaut Group 18 is a class of NASA astronauts selected in 2000, often nicknamed "The Bugs," which includes spacefarers such as Douglas Hurley.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.