John Blaha
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John Blaha is a retired NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent time aboard the Mir space station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Blaha canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11683801 — 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: John Blaha Context triple: [STS-81, missionSpecialist, John Blaha]
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A.
Michael Blaha
Michael Blaha is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his pioneering work in object-oriented modeling and database design, including co-developing the Object Modeling Technique (OMT).
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B.
John Sikela
John Sikela was a Golden Age comic book artist best known for his work on early Superman stories for DC Comics.
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C.
William Prochnau
William Prochnau was an American journalist and author known for his in-depth reporting on war correspondents and international conflicts, several of whose works were adapted for film.
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D.
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
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E.
James Kudelka
James Kudelka is a prominent Canadian choreographer and former artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, known for his innovative and often psychologically complex reinterpretations of classical and contemporary works.
- 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: John Blaha Target entity description: John Blaha is a retired NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent time aboard the Mir space station.
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A.
Michael Blaha
Michael Blaha is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his pioneering work in object-oriented modeling and database design, including co-developing the Object Modeling Technique (OMT).
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B.
John Sikela
John Sikela was a Golden Age comic book artist best known for his work on early Superman stories for DC Comics.
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C.
William Prochnau
William Prochnau was an American journalist and author known for his in-depth reporting on war correspondents and international conflicts, several of whose works were adapted for film.
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D.
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
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E.
James Kudelka
James Kudelka is a prominent Canadian choreographer and former artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, known for his innovative and often psychologically complex reinterpretations of classical and contemporary works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in engineering
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Master of Science in engineering ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
NERFINISHED
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Defense Superior Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Purdue University
NERFINISHED
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United States Air Force Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
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United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Blaha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | aerospace ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
flying multiple Space Shuttle missions
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serving as a NASA-Mir long-duration astronaut ⓘ |
| notableWork | long-duration mission on Mir space station ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Mir-NASA program
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFrom |
NASA
NERFINISHED
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United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Mir EO-22
NERFINISHED
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STS-29 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-33 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-43 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-58 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-79 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStationVisited | Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeInSpace | over 161 days ⓘ |
| wasOnBoard |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour 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: John Blaha Description of subject: John Blaha is a retired NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent time aboard the Mir space station.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.