Peggy Whitson
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Peggy Whitson is a NASA astronaut and biochemist renowned for holding the U.S. record for most cumulative time spent in space.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peggy Whitson canonical | 12 |
| Peggy A. Whitson | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11064241 — 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: Peggy Whitson Context triple: [Iowa Wesleyan College, hasNotableAlumni, Peggy Whitson]
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A.
Sandra Magnus
Sandra Magnus is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent several months aboard the International Space Station.
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B.
Christina Koch
Christina Koch is a NASA astronaut and electrical engineer best known for holding the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman and for participating in the first all-female spacewalk.
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C.
Sunita Williams
Sunita Williams is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Navy test pilot known for her long-duration stays on the International Space Station and holding records for spacewalks by a woman.
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D.
Shannon Lucid
Shannon Lucid is an American biochemist and NASA astronaut known for holding long-duration spaceflight records and serving on multiple Space Shuttle and Mir space missions.
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E.
Barbara Morgan
Barbara Morgan is a former American teacher and NASA astronaut who became the first educator astronaut to fly in space on the STS-118 Space Shuttle mission.
- 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: Peggy Whitson Target entity description: Peggy Whitson is a NASA astronaut and biochemist renowned for holding the U.S. record for most cumulative time spent in space.
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A.
Sandra Magnus
Sandra Magnus is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent several months aboard the International Space Station.
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B.
Christina Koch
Christina Koch is a NASA astronaut and electrical engineer best known for holding the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman and for participating in the first all-female spacewalk.
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C.
Sunita Williams
Sunita Williams is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Navy test pilot known for her long-duration stays on the International Space Station and holding records for spacewalks by a woman.
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D.
Shannon Lucid
Shannon Lucid is an American biochemist and NASA astronaut known for holding long-duration spaceflight records and serving on multiple Space Shuttle and Mir space missions.
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E.
Barbara Morgan
Barbara Morgan is a former American teacher and NASA astronaut who became the first educator astronaut to fly in space on the STS-118 Space Shuttle mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Peggy Whitson Description of subject: Peggy Whitson is a NASA astronaut and biochemist renowned for holding the U.S. record for most cumulative time spent in space.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Peggy Whitson
linked to: Peggy Whitson