NASA Astronaut Group 9
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NASA Astronaut Group 9 was a 1980 class of NASA astronauts selected during the early Space Shuttle era, comprising pilots, mission specialists, and scientists who flew on numerous shuttle missions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| NASA Astronaut Group 9 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11389044 — 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: NASA Astronaut Group 9 Context triple: [David C. Leestma, astronautGroup, NASA Astronaut Group 9]
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A.
NASA Astronaut Group 8
NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a 1978 class of NASA astronauts notable for including the first American women and minority astronauts, marking a major step toward a more diverse astronaut corps.
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B.
NASA Astronaut Group 10
NASA Astronaut Group 10 is a cohort of NASA astronauts selected in 1984, notable for including many who later flew multiple Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions.
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C.
NASA Astronaut Group 1
NASA Astronaut Group 1 was the original group of seven U.S. astronauts selected in 1959, known as the Mercury Seven, who pioneered America’s first human spaceflights.
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D.
NASA Astronaut Group 6
NASA Astronaut Group 6 was a 1967 class of NASA astronauts that included several future Apollo lunar mission crew members.
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E.
NASA Astronaut Group 5
NASA Astronaut Group 5 was a 1966 class of American astronauts that provided many of the crew members for later Apollo lunar missions and early Skylab flights.
- 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: NASA Astronaut Group 9 Target entity description: NASA Astronaut Group 9 was a 1980 class of NASA astronauts selected during the early Space Shuttle era, comprising pilots, mission specialists, and scientists who flew on numerous shuttle missions.
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A.
NASA Astronaut Group 8
NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a 1978 class of NASA astronauts notable for including the first American women and minority astronauts, marking a major step toward a more diverse astronaut corps.
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B.
NASA Astronaut Group 10
NASA Astronaut Group 10 is a cohort of NASA astronauts selected in 1984, notable for including many who later flew multiple Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions.
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C.
NASA Astronaut Group 1
NASA Astronaut Group 1 was the original group of seven U.S. astronauts selected in 1959, known as the Mercury Seven, who pioneered America’s first human spaceflights.
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D.
NASA Astronaut Group 6
NASA Astronaut Group 6 was a 1967 class of NASA astronauts that included several future Apollo lunar mission crew members.
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E.
NASA Astronaut Group 5
NASA Astronaut Group 5 was a 1966 class of American astronauts that provided many of the crew members for later Apollo lunar missions and early Skylab flights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut group
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astronaut selection group ⓘ |
| basedAt | Johnson Space Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| era | early Space Shuttle era ⓘ |
| field | human spaceflight ⓘ |
| hasRole |
payload specialist
ⓘ
spacecraft pilot ⓘ spaceflight mission specialist ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| location | Houston, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| member |
Anna L. Fisher
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles D. Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ Dale A. Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ David M. Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ Donald E. Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick H. Hauck NERFINISHED ⓘ George D. Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy S. Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ James D. A. van Hoften NERFINISHED ⓘ James F. Buchli NERFINISHED ⓘ James F. van Hoften NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffrey A. Hoffman NERFINISHED ⓘ John E. Blaha NERFINISHED ⓘ John M. Fabian NERFINISHED ⓘ John M. Lounge NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael L. Coats NERFINISHED ⓘ Norman E. Thagard NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhea Seddon NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard O. Covey NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy D. Bridges Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Shannon W. Lucid NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven A. Hawley NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven R. Nagel NERFINISHED ⓘ William F. Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberCount | 19 ⓘ |
| memberType |
mission specialist
ⓘ
pilot astronaut ⓘ scientist-astronaut ⓘ |
| missionType | Space Shuttle missions ⓘ |
| notableFor |
first astronaut class selected specifically for the Space Shuttle era
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providing crew for numerous Space Shuttle flights ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA astronaut groups NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| program | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | NASA astronaut selection process ⓘ |
| selectionYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| spacecraftFlown |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Challenger NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceProgram | Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startOfService | early 1980s ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| trainingLocation | 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: NASA Astronaut Group 9 Description of subject: NASA Astronaut Group 9 was a 1980 class of NASA astronauts selected during the early Space Shuttle era, comprising pilots, mission specialists, and scientists who flew on numerous shuttle missions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.