Janice E. Voss
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Janice E. Voss was an American NASA astronaut and engineer who flew on five Space Shuttle missions and contributed significantly to spaceborne scientific research and technology.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Janice E. Voss canonical | 6 |
| Janice Voss | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11346428 — 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: Janice E. Voss Context triple: [STS-99, missionSpecialist, Janice E. Voss]
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A.
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Elizabeth B. Prelogar is an American lawyer and legal scholar who serves as the chief advocate for the U.S. government before the Supreme Court.
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B.
Donna W. Scott
Donna W. Scott is an American actress and former model best known for her work in film and television and for being married to late director Tony Scott.
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C.
Linda R. Gaddy
Linda R. Gaddy was the wife of Theodore G. Bilbo, a controversial early 20th-century Mississippi politician and segregationist who served as both governor and U.S. senator.
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D.
Bonnie E. John
Bonnie E. John is a cognitive psychologist and human-computer interaction researcher known for her work on cognitive modeling and usability engineering.
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E.
Aileen Leatherman
Aileen Leatherman was the mother of British actress Jill Balcon and a member of a prominent Anglo-Jewish family.
- 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: Janice E. Voss Target entity description: Janice E. Voss was an American NASA astronaut and engineer who flew on five Space Shuttle missions and contributed significantly to spaceborne scientific research and technology.
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A.
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Elizabeth B. Prelogar is an American lawyer and legal scholar who serves as the chief advocate for the U.S. government before the Supreme Court.
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B.
Donna W. Scott
Donna W. Scott is an American actress and former model best known for her work in film and television and for being married to late director Tony Scott.
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C.
Linda R. Gaddy
Linda R. Gaddy was the wife of Theodore G. Bilbo, a controversial early 20th-century Mississippi politician and segregationist who served as both governor and U.S. senator.
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D.
Bonnie E. John
Bonnie E. John is a cognitive psychologist and human-computer interaction researcher known for her work on cognitive modeling and usability engineering.
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E.
Aileen Leatherman
Aileen Leatherman was the mother of British actress Jill Balcon and a member of a prominent Anglo-Jewish family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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NASA astronaut ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Engineering
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Doctor of Philosophy in Aeronautics and Astronautics ⓘ Master of Science in Electrical Engineering ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Purdue University ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
NASA Exceptional Service Medal
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NASA Space Flight Medal ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-10-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-02-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Purdue University ⓘ Wheat Ridge High School ⓘ |
| employer |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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linked to:
NASA
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| familyName | Voss ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
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space science ⓘ |
| givenName | Janice ⓘ |
| honor | asteroid 32842 Janicevoss named in her honor ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| missionRole | mission specialist ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the few astronauts to fly on five Space Shuttle missions
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contributions to spaceborne scientific research and technology ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Microgravity science research on STS-83
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Microgravity science research on STS-94 ⓘ Shuttle Radar Topography Mission on STS-99 ⓘ
linked to:
Space Shuttle mission STS-99
Spacelab experiments on STS-57 ⓘ
linked to:
Spacelab missions
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| numberOfSpaceFlights | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
South Bend, Indiana, United States
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linked to:
South Bend, Indiana
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| placeOfDeath |
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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linked to:
Scottsdale, Arizona
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| selectedAsAstronaut | 1990 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-57
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STS-63 ⓘ STS-83 ⓘ STS-94 ⓘ STS-99 ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | about 49 days ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Earth topographic mapping
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Spacelab module operations ⓘ microgravity materials science experiments ⓘ |
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: Janice E. Voss Description of subject: Janice E. Voss was an American NASA astronaut and engineer who flew on five Space Shuttle missions and contributed significantly to spaceborne scientific research and technology.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Janice E. Voss
linked to: Janice E. Voss
Purdue University Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Alumni
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