DM
E1044083
DM is the specially designed docking module that enabled Space Shuttle orbiters to safely dock with the Russian Mir space station during the Shuttle–Mir program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DM canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13529220 — 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: DM Context triple: [Shuttle-Mir docking module, alsoKnownAs, DM]
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A.
DM
DM is the commonly used abbreviation for the Deutsche Mark, the former official currency of West Germany and later unified Germany before the adoption of the euro.
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B.
DM
DM is the abbreviated name commonly used for the Department of Management in an academic or organizational context.
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C.
DM
DM is the standard abbreviation for Francisco Suárez’s influential late 16th-century scholastic work *Disputationes metaphysicae*, a foundational text in early modern metaphysics.
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D.
.dm
.dm is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to the Caribbean island nation of Dominica for use in internet addresses.
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E.
DN
DN is a UK postcode area covering Doncaster and surrounding parts of South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, including North East Lincolnshire.
- 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: DM Target entity description: DM is the specially designed docking module that enabled Space Shuttle orbiters to safely dock with the Russian Mir space station during the Shuttle–Mir program.
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A.
DM
DM is the commonly used abbreviation for the Deutsche Mark, the former official currency of West Germany and later unified Germany before the adoption of the euro.
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B.
DM
DM is the abbreviated name commonly used for the Department of Management in an academic or organizational context.
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C.
DM
DM is the standard abbreviation for Francisco Suárez’s influential late 16th-century scholastic work *Disputationes metaphysicae*, a foundational text in early modern metaphysics.
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D.
.dm
.dm is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to the Caribbean island nation of Dominica for use in internet addresses.
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E.
DN
DN is a UK postcode area covering Doncaster and surrounding parts of South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, including North East Lincolnshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
space hardware
ⓘ
spacecraft docking module ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Shuttle–Mir Docking Module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Atlantis–Mir docking
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Phase 1 of International Space Station program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attachedTo | Mir space station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attachedToModule | Kristall module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaborationType | US–Russian space cooperation ⓘ |
| compatibleDockingSystem |
APAS-89
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
APAS-95 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Russia
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| deorbitDate | 2001-03-23 ⓘ |
| designedBy | Russian and American engineers ⓘ |
| designedFor |
Mir space station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Space Shuttle orbiter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockingPartner |
Mir space station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstLaunchDate | 1995-06-27 ⓘ |
| firstMission | STS-71 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | ISS Pressurized Mating Adapters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Docking Module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Space Shuttle Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationOnMir | Kristall module forward port GENERATED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | RKK Energia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
NASA
ⓘ
Russian Space Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| precededBy | direct Shuttle–Mir docking concepts without adapter ⓘ |
| program | Shuttle–Mir program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose | enable docking between Space Shuttle orbiters and Mir space station ⓘ |
| relatedProgram | International Space Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
docking adapter
ⓘ
structural tunnel between Shuttle and Mir ⓘ |
| status | deorbited ⓘ |
| usedOnMission |
STS-71
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
STS-74 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-76 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-79 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-81 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-84 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-86 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-89 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-91 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: DM Description of subject: DM is the specially designed docking module that enabled Space Shuttle orbiters to safely dock with the Russian Mir space station during the Shuttle–Mir program.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.