Charles J. Precourt
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Charles J. Precourt is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later served in leadership roles within the astronaut corps.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles J. Precourt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7727803 — 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: Charles J. Precourt Context triple: [D-2, missionSpecialist, Charles J. Precourt]
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A.
George N. Clements
George N. Clements was an influential linguist and phonologist known for his work on feature geometry and the theory of syllable structure.
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B.
Charles B. Eddy
Charles B. Eddy was an American businessman and railroad promoter influential in the development of southeastern New Mexico, for whom Eddy County was named.
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C.
Charles E. Whittaker
Charles E. Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 1950s and early 1960s, known for his often moderate and sometimes conflicted positions on key constitutional issues.
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D.
Robert N. Davoren
Robert N. Davoren was a notable figure in New York City's correctional system, commemorated by having a Rikers Island jail facility named in his honor.
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E.
Charles S. Fairchild
Charles S. Fairchild was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Grover Cleveland.
- 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: Charles J. Precourt Target entity description: Charles J. Precourt is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later served in leadership roles within the astronaut corps.
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A.
George N. Clements
George N. Clements was an influential linguist and phonologist known for his work on feature geometry and the theory of syllable structure.
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B.
Charles B. Eddy
Charles B. Eddy was an American businessman and railroad promoter influential in the development of southeastern New Mexico, for whom Eddy County was named.
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C.
Charles E. Whittaker
Charles E. Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 1950s and early 1960s, known for his often moderate and sometimes conflicted positions on key constitutional issues.
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D.
Robert N. Davoren
Robert N. Davoren was a notable figure in New York City's correctional system, commemorated by having a Rikers Island jail facility named in his honor.
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E.
Charles S. Fairchild
Charles S. Fairchild was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Grover Cleveland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Medal
NERFINISHED
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Defense Superior Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Purdue University NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Air Force Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Air Force Test Pilot School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Precourt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
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aerospace engineering ⓘ human spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasActivity | spacewalk training and mission operations leadership ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
flew on four Space Shuttle missions
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led astronaut corps in late Shuttle era ⓘ |
| notableRole |
commander of Space Shuttle missions
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pilot of Space Shuttle missions ⓘ |
| notableWork | participation in Shuttle–Mir Program missions ⓘ |
| occupation |
aerospace engineer
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astronaut ⓘ fighter pilot ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief of the Astronaut Office
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Deputy Manager of the International Space Station Program ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-55
NERFINISHED
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STS-71 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-84 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-91 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleFlown |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery 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: Charles J. Precourt Description of subject: Charles J. Precourt is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later served in leadership roles within the astronaut corps.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.