STS-80
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STS-80 was a 1996 Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on deploying and retrieving scientific satellites and conducting microgravity research in Earth orbit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-80 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8734436 — 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: STS-80 Context triple: [F. Story Musgrave, spaceflight, STS-80]
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A.
STS-86
STS-86 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle mission that conducted a docking with the Russian Mir space station as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
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B.
STS-83
STS-83 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity science research as part of the Microgravity Science Laboratory program.
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C.
STS-84
STS-84 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle mission that carried Atlantis to the Russian Mir space station for crew transfer, resupply, and scientific research.
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D.
STS-87
STS-87 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and solar physics experiments, notable for including astronaut Kalpana Chawla among its crew.
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E.
STS-89
STS-89 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the Russian Mir space station that conducted crew transfer and scientific research as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
- 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: STS-80 Target entity description: STS-80 was a 1996 Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on deploying and retrieving scientific satellites and conducting microgravity research in Earth orbit.
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A.
STS-86
STS-86 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle mission that conducted a docking with the Russian Mir space station as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
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B.
STS-83
STS-83 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity science research as part of the Microgravity Science Laboratory program.
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C.
STS-84
STS-84 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle mission that carried Atlantis to the Russian Mir space station for crew transfer, resupply, and scientific research.
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D.
STS-87
STS-87 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and solar physics experiments, notable for including astronaut Kalpana Chawla among its crew.
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E.
STS-89
STS-89 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the Russian Mir space station that conducted crew transfer and scientific research as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA spaceflight
ⓘ
Space Shuttle mission ⓘ |
| carriedPayload |
ORFEUS-SPAS II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spacehab module NERFINISHED ⓘ Wake Shield Facility-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Kenneth D. Cockrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewSize | 5 ⓘ |
| deployedSatellite |
ORFEUS-SPAS II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wake Shield Facility-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| failedActivity | planned spacewalks canceled due to airlock hatch problem ⓘ |
| followedByMission | STS-81 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1996-12-07 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1996-11-19 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 17 days 15 hours 53 minutes ⓘ |
| missionNumberInProgram | 80 ⓘ |
| missionObjective |
conduct microgravity experiments in Spacehab module
ⓘ
perform ultraviolet astronomy with ORFEUS-SPAS II ⓘ study thin-film growth with Wake Shield Facility-3 ⓘ |
| missionPatch | STS-80 mission insignia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionSpecialist |
F. Story Musgrave
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tamara E. Jernigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas D. Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | longest Space Shuttle mission at the time of flight ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitApogee | ~365 km ⓘ |
| orbitInclination | 28.45 degrees ⓘ |
| orbitPerigee | ~349 km ⓘ |
| orbitType | Low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| pilot | Kent V. Rominger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededByMission | STS-79 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMissionType |
microgravity research
ⓘ
satellite deployment and retrieval ⓘ |
| researchField |
astrophysics
ⓘ
life sciences ⓘ materials science ⓘ microgravity science ⓘ |
| retrievedSatellite |
ORFEUS-SPAS II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wake Shield Facility-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraft |
OV-102
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleProgram | Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfSpaceflight | 1996 ⓘ |
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: STS-80 Description of subject: STS-80 was a 1996 Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on deploying and retrieving scientific satellites and conducting microgravity research in Earth orbit.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.