Donald H. Peterson
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Donald H. Peterson was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut best known for flying on the first Space Shuttle Challenger mission and performing one of the early spacewalks of the Shuttle era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donald H. Peterson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9748355 — 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: Donald H. Peterson Context triple: [STS-6, crewMember, Donald H. Peterson]
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A.
Charles J. Peterson
Charles J. Peterson was a 19th-century American editor and author best known for his influential work in popular magazines and historical romances.
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B.
Howard C. Petersen
Howard C. Petersen was an American lawyer, government official, and banker who played a key role in U.S. economic and defense policy during and after World War II.
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C.
H. Lee Peterson
H. Lee Peterson is a film editor best known for his work on major animated features, including Disney’s 1992 classic "Aladdin."
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D.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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E.
Donald R. Seawell
Donald R. Seawell was an American attorney, theatrical producer, and arts patron best known for his influential role in developing Denver’s cultural landscape.
- 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: Donald H. Peterson Target entity description: Donald H. Peterson was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut best known for flying on the first Space Shuttle Challenger mission and performing one of the early spacewalks of the Shuttle era.
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A.
Charles J. Peterson
Charles J. Peterson was a 19th-century American editor and author best known for his influential work in popular magazines and historical romances.
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B.
Howard C. Petersen
Howard C. Petersen was an American lawyer, government official, and banker who played a key role in U.S. economic and defense policy during and after World War II.
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C.
H. Lee Peterson
H. Lee Peterson is a film editor best known for his work on major animated features, including Disney’s 1992 classic "Aladdin."
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D.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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E.
Donald R. Seawell
Donald R. Seawell was an American attorney, theatrical producer, and arts patron best known for his influential role in developing Denver’s cultural landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
United States Air Force officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Medal
ⓘ
Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ Meritorious Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-10-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-05-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Air Force Institute of Technology
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
ⓘ
United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | nuclear engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | Donald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Group 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
flying on the first Space Shuttle Challenger mission
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performing one of the early Shuttle-era spacewalks ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participatedIn | development and testing of Space Shuttle systems ⓘ |
| performedActivity | extravehicular activity ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Winona, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | El Lago, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | El Lago, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromNASA | 1984 ⓘ |
| retiredFromUSAF | 1984 ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronaut | 1969 ⓘ |
| serviceNumberOfSpaceFlights | 1 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission | STS-6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacewalkOnMission | STS-6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Bonnie Love Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | about 5 days ⓘ |
| wasCrewMemberOf | Space Shuttle Challenger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAt | Johnson Space Center 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: Donald H. Peterson Description of subject: Donald H. Peterson was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut best known for flying on the first Space Shuttle Challenger mission and performing one of the early spacewalks of the Shuttle era.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.