Charles Conrad Jr. commanded Apollo 12 and walked on the Moon
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Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American astronaut, naval officer, and the third person to walk on the Moon as commander of NASA's Apollo 12 mission.
All labels observed (1)
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| Charles Conrad Jr. commanded Apollo 12 and walked on the Moon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13353081 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Conrad Jr. commanded Apollo 12 and walked on the Moon Context triple: [NASA Astronaut Group 2, notableMemberAchievement, Charles Conrad Jr. commanded Apollo 12 and walked on the Moon]
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A.
David R. Scott commanded Apollo 15
David R. Scott is a former NASA astronaut and Air Force officer best known for commanding the Apollo 15 lunar mission and becoming the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
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B.
Alan B. Shepard Jr. – commander
Alan B. Shepard Jr. was a pioneering NASA astronaut, the first American in space and later commander of the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon.
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C.
Charles Duke III
Charles Duke III is the son of Apollo 16 astronaut and Moon-walker Charles M. Duke Jr.
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D.
Jim Lovell
Jim Lovell is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission and as a co-author of the memoir "Lost Moon," which inspired the film "Apollo 13."
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E.
Charles M. Duke Jr.
Charles M. Duke Jr. is an American astronaut, U.S. Air Force officer, and test pilot best known for walking on the Moon during the Apollo 16 mission.
- 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: Charles Conrad Jr. commanded Apollo 12 and walked on the Moon Target entity description: Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American astronaut, naval officer, and the third person to walk on the Moon as commander of NASA's Apollo 12 mission.
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A.
David R. Scott commanded Apollo 15
David R. Scott is a former NASA astronaut and Air Force officer best known for commanding the Apollo 15 lunar mission and becoming the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
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B.
Alan B. Shepard Jr. – commander
Alan B. Shepard Jr. was a pioneering NASA astronaut, the first American in space and later commander of the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon.
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C.
Charles Duke III
Charles Duke III is the son of Apollo 16 astronaut and Moon-walker Charles M. Duke Jr.
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D.
Jim Lovell
Jim Lovell is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission and as a co-author of the memoir "Lost Moon," which inspired the film "Apollo 13."
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E.
Charles M. Duke Jr.
Charles M. Duke Jr. is an American astronaut, U.S. Air Force officer, and test pilot best known for walking on the Moon during the Apollo 16 mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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aerospace engineer ⓘ astronaut ⓘ human ⓘ naval officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| awarded |
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
NERFINISHED
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Harmon Trophy NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Navy Distinguished Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | injuries from motorcycle accident ⓘ |
| commanded | Apollo 12 mission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dateOfBirth | 1930-06-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999-07-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Conrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | aeronautical engineering ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| lunarLandingMission | Apollo 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lunarModule | Apollo 12 Lunar Module Intrepid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Group 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| nickname | Pete NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the third human to walk on the Moon
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commanding Apollo 12 ⓘ |
| numberOfSpaceflights | 4 ⓘ |
| orderOfMoonWalk | third person to walk on the Moon ⓘ |
| performedEVA |
Apollo 12 lunar surface EVA
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Gemini 11 EVA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| placeOfDeath | Ojai, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInMission |
Apollo 12 commander
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Gemini 11 command pilot NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 5 pilot ⓘ Skylab 2 commander ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronaut | 1962 ⓘ |
| spaceflightTime | 49 days 3 hours 38 minutes (approximate) ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Apollo 12
NERFINISHED
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Gemini 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Skylab 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| walkedOn | Moon 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: Charles Conrad Jr. commanded Apollo 12 and walked on the Moon Description of subject: Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American astronaut, naval officer, and the third person to walk on the Moon as commander of NASA's Apollo 12 mission.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
NASA Astronaut Group 2
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notableMemberAchievement
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Charles Conrad Jr. commanded Apollo 12 and walked on the Moon
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