Thomas P. Stafford commanded Apollo 10
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Thomas P. Stafford is a former NASA astronaut and Air Force general best known for commanding the Apollo 10 lunar mission and later co-commanding the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas P. Stafford commanded Apollo 10 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13353084 — 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: Thomas P. Stafford commanded Apollo 10 Context triple: [NASA Astronaut Group 2, notableMemberAchievement, Thomas P. Stafford commanded Apollo 10]
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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.
Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief
"Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief" is a famous 1922 portrait by Irish artist Sir John Lavery depicting Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins in military uniform.
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D.
Frank Borman
Frank Borman is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known for commanding the historic Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
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E.
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."
- 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: Thomas P. Stafford commanded Apollo 10 Target entity description: Thomas P. Stafford is a former NASA astronaut and Air Force general best known for commanding the Apollo 10 lunar mission and later co-commanding the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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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.
Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief
"Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief" is a famous 1922 portrait by Irish artist Sir John Lavery depicting Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins in military uniform.
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D.
Frank Borman
Frank Borman is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known for commanding the historic Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Air Force general ⓘ human ⓘ |
| almaMater | United States Naval Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| Apollo10Callsign | Charlie Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| Apollo10LunarModuleCallsign | Snoopy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded |
Distinguished Flying Cross
NERFINISHED
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NASA Distinguished Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Presidential Medal of Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Thomas Patten Stafford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commandedMission |
Apollo 10
NERFINISHED
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Apollo–Soyuz Test Project NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 9A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-09-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Air Command and Staff College
NERFINISHED
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Experimental Test Pilot School NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Stafford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace
ⓘ
space exploration ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfNotability | crewed spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpokenLanguage | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Group 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lieutenant general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-commanding Apollo–Soyuz Test Project
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commanding Apollo 10 lunar mission ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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test pilot ⓘ |
| participatedIn | first crewed test of the Apollo Lunar Module in lunar orbit ⓘ |
| performedFirstRendezvousWithoutDocking | Gemini 6A mission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Weatherford, Oklahoma, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromNASA | 1975 ⓘ |
| retiredFromUSAirForce | 1979 ⓘ |
| roleInApollo10 | commander ⓘ |
| roleInApolloSoyuzTestProject | American commander ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronaut | 1962 ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Apollo 10
NERFINISHED
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Apollo–Soyuz Test Project NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 6A NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 9A 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: Thomas P. Stafford commanded Apollo 10 Description of subject: Thomas P. Stafford is a former NASA astronaut and Air Force general best known for commanding the Apollo 10 lunar mission and later co-commanding the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.