Jerry Lynn Ross
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Jerry Lynn Ross is a retired United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut known for holding a record number of Space Shuttle flights and spacewalks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerry Lynn Ross canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10169033 — 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: Jerry Lynn Ross Context triple: [Jerry L. Ross, fullName, Jerry Lynn Ross]
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A.
Dallas Roberts
Dallas Roberts is an American actor known for his versatile roles in film, television, and theater, including appearances in projects like "Dallas Buyers Club" and the series "The Walking Dead."
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B.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
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C.
Greg Stillson
Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
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D.
Dennis Reynolds
Dennis Reynolds is a narcissistic, manipulative co-owner of Paddy’s Pub and one of the main characters in the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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E.
Gary Lynn Stevens
Gary Lynn Stevens is an American politician and educator who has served in the Alaska State Legislature, including as President of the Alaska Senate.
- 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: Jerry Lynn Ross Target entity description: Jerry Lynn Ross is a retired United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut known for holding a record number of Space Shuttle flights and spacewalks.
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A.
Dallas Roberts
Dallas Roberts is an American actor known for his versatile roles in film, television, and theater, including appearances in projects like "Dallas Buyers Club" and the series "The Walking Dead."
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B.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
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C.
Greg Stillson
Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
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D.
Dennis Reynolds
Dennis Reynolds is a narcissistic, manipulative co-owner of Paddy’s Pub and one of the main characters in the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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E.
Gary Lynn Stevens
Gary Lynn Stevens is an American politician and educator who has served in the Alaska State Legislature, including as President of the Alaska Senate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Air Force officer ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| almaMater | Purdue University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Defense Superior Service Medal
NERFINISHED
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Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | John Norberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-01-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Purdue University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | National Aeronautics and Space Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | mechanical engineering ⓘ |
| fullName | Jerry Lynn Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Jerry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| NASAAstronautGroup | NASA Astronaut Group 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first human to fly in space seven times
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held record for most Space Shuttle flights ⓘ performed a record number of spacewalks during his career ⓘ |
| notableWork | autobiography "Spacewalker" ⓘ |
| numberOfEVAs | 9 ⓘ |
| numberOfSpaceFlights | 7 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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engineer ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
assembly of the International Space Station
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first ISS assembly flight STS-88 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFrom |
NASA
NERFINISHED
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United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectionYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-110
NERFINISHED
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STS-27 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-37 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-55 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-61-B NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-74 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-88 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| totalEVATime | more than 58 hours ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | more than 1,393 hours ⓘ |
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: Jerry Lynn Ross Description of subject: Jerry Lynn Ross is a retired United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut known for holding a record number of Space Shuttle flights and spacewalks.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.