Scott Altman
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Scott Altman is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including leading a major servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Scott Altman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11315091 — 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: Scott Altman Context triple: [Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 3B, commander, Scott Altman]
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A.
Mike Altman
Mike Altman is an American lyricist best known for writing the lyrics to the theme song of the film and television series M*A*S*H, "Suicide Is Painless," when he was a teenager.
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B.
Russ Titelman
Russ Titelman is an American record producer and songwriter known for his work with major artists across rock and pop music, including collaborations with the likes of Eric Clapton and George Harrison.
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C.
Philip Andelman
Philip Andelman is an American music video and commercial director known for his work with major artists across pop and rock music.
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D.
Bruce Mehlman
Bruce Mehlman is an American public policy strategist and lobbyist known for his work in technology policy and for co-founding the bipartisan consulting firm Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas.
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E.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
- 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: Scott Altman Target entity description: Scott Altman is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including leading a major servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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A.
Mike Altman
Mike Altman is an American lyricist best known for writing the lyrics to the theme song of the film and television series M*A*S*H, "Suicide Is Painless," when he was a teenager.
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B.
Russ Titelman
Russ Titelman is an American record producer and songwriter known for his work with major artists across rock and pop music, including collaborations with the likes of Eric Clapton and George Harrison.
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C.
Philip Andelman
Philip Andelman is an American music video and commercial director known for his work with major artists across pop and rock music.
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D.
Bruce Mehlman
Bruce Mehlman is an American public policy strategist and lobbyist known for his work in technology policy and for co-founding the bipartisan consulting firm Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas.
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E.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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U.S. Navy officer ⓘ human ⓘ military aviator ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Defense Superior Service Medal
NERFINISHED
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Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Naval Postgraduate School
NERFINISHED
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United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Altman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
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human spaceflight ⓘ space exploration ⓘ |
| givenName | Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFlownOnSpacecraft |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-125) NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupationStatus | retired ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| notableFor |
career as a U.S. Navy captain
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commanding a servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ flying on four Space Shuttle missions ⓘ leadership in human spaceflight missions ⓘ servicing the Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Space Shuttle mission STS-106
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle mission STS-109 NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle mission STS-125 NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle mission STS-90 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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naval aviator ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participantIn |
STS-106
NERFINISHED
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STS-109 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-125 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-90 NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Space Shuttle mission commander
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Space Shuttle pilot ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity | low Earth orbit missions ⓘ |
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: Scott Altman Description of subject: Scott Altman is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including leading a major servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.