STS-85
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STS-85 was a 1997 Space Shuttle Discovery mission focused on scientific research and technology demonstrations in low Earth orbit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-85 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9055432 — 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-85 Context triple: [Stephen Robinson, spaceMission, STS-85]
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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-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.
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C.
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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D.
STS-80
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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E.
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.
- 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-85 Target entity description: STS-85 was a 1997 Space Shuttle Discovery mission focused on scientific research and technology demonstrations in low 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-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.
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C.
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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D.
STS-80
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA spaceflight
ⓘ
Space Shuttle mission ⓘ |
| apogee | ~296 km ⓘ |
| callsign | Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Curtis L. Brown Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewMember |
Bjarni V. Tryggvason
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Curtis L. Brown Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Kent V. Rominger NERFINISHED ⓘ N. Jan Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert L. Curbeam Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen K. Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 6 ⓘ |
| followedByMission | STS-86 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inclination | 28.45 degrees ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1997-08-19 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1997-08-07 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 11 days 20 hours 27 minutes ⓘ |
| missionNumber | 85 ⓘ |
| missionSpecialist |
N. Jan Davis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert L. Curbeam Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen K. Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
included Canadian Space Agency payload specialist Bjarni Tryggvason
ⓘ
second flight of CRISTA-SPAS atmospheric research platform ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbiter | Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 185 ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| payload |
CRISTA-SPAS-2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HST orbital systems test hardware ⓘ MFD (Manipulation Flight Demonstration) NERFINISHED ⓘ TEAMS (Technology Experiments for Advanced Missions in Space) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| payloadSpecialist | Bjarni V. Tryggvason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| perigee | ~285 km ⓘ |
| pilot | Kent V. Rominger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededByMission | STS-94 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
atmospheric research
ⓘ
technology demonstrations in low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| retrievedPayloadInOrbit | CRISTA-SPAS-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scientificFocus | middle and upper atmosphere studies ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleProgram | Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleProgramMissionNumber | Discovery flight 24 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFreeFlyingPlatform | CRISTA-SPAS-2 free flyer ⓘ |
| yearOfMission | 1997 ⓘ |
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-85 Description of subject: STS-85 was a 1997 Space Shuttle Discovery mission focused on scientific research and technology demonstrations in low Earth orbit.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.