Gregory T. Linteris
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Gregory T. Linteris is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut who flew as a payload specialist on Space Shuttle missions to conduct microgravity combustion research.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gregory T. Linteris canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11787320 — 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: Gregory T. Linteris Context triple: [STS-83, payloadSpecialist, Gregory T. Linteris]
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A.
Gregory J. Reed
Gregory J. Reed is an author best known for co-writing the memoir "Quiet Strength," which chronicles the life and values of NFL coach Tony Dungy.
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B.
Richard Lintner
Richard Lintner is a Slovak former professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the NHL and various European leagues and later became a television analyst and hockey official.
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C.
Gregory J. Gordon
Gregory J. Gordon is a composer and musician known for creating the score for the film "Detention."
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D.
Timothy J. Sexton
Timothy J. Sexton is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the critically acclaimed dystopian film "Children of Men."
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E.
Timothy P. Lillicrap
Timothy P. Lillicrap is a Canadian-born neuroscientist and DeepMind researcher known for influential work in deep reinforcement learning and neural network optimization.
- 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: Gregory T. Linteris Target entity description: Gregory T. Linteris is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut who flew as a payload specialist on Space Shuttle missions to conduct microgravity combustion research.
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A.
Gregory J. Reed
Gregory J. Reed is an author best known for co-writing the memoir "Quiet Strength," which chronicles the life and values of NFL coach Tony Dungy.
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B.
Richard Lintner
Richard Lintner is a Slovak former professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the NHL and various European leagues and later became a television analyst and hockey official.
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C.
Gregory J. Gordon
Gregory J. Gordon is a composer and musician known for creating the score for the film "Detention."
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D.
Timothy J. Sexton
Timothy J. Sexton is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the critically acclaimed dystopian film "Children of Men."
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E.
Timothy P. Lillicrap
Timothy P. Lillicrap is a Canadian-born neuroscientist and DeepMind researcher known for influential work in deep reinforcement learning and neural network optimization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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aerospace crewmember ⓘ human ⓘ payload specialist ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science
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Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ Master of Engineering ⓘ |
| affiliation | NASA Microgravity Combustion Science program ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cornell University
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Princeton University ⓘ Rutgers University ⓘ |
| employer |
Building and Fire Research Laboratory at NIST
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration ⓘ
linked to:
NASA
National Institute of Standards and Technology ⓘ |
| familyName | Linteris ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
combustion
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fire dynamics ⓘ fire safety ⓘ fire suppression ⓘ flame inhibition ⓘ microgravity combustion ⓘ |
| givenName | Gregory ⓘ |
| hasResearchArea |
fire safety in spacecraft environments
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halon replacement agents for fire suppression ⓘ reduced-gravity combustion ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
crew of STS-83
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crew of STS-94 ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
conducted combustion research in microgravity
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flew twice on the Space Shuttle as a payload specialist ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Combustion Module-1 experiments
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Combustion Module-2 experiments ⓘ microgravity combustion experiments on the Space Shuttle ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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scientist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
payload specialist on STS-83
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payload specialist on STS-94 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-83
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STS-94 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Boulder, Colorado ⓘ |
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: Gregory T. Linteris Description of subject: Gregory T. Linteris is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut who flew as a payload specialist on Space Shuttle missions to conduct microgravity combustion research.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.