Mir
E118091
Mir was a Soviet and later Russian modular space station that served as a long-term research outpost in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mir canonical | 43 |
| Mir core complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1006327 — 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: Mir Context triple: [Shannon Lucid, spaceStationVisit, Mir]
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A.
Mille
Mille is a French surname most notably borne by individuals such as Stéphane Mille.
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B.
Mitu
Mitu is a genus of large, ground-dwelling curassows—game birds native to Neotropical forests in South America.
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C.
Miller
Miller is a common English and Scottish occupational surname historically given to people who worked in grain mills.
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D.
Myal
Myal is an Afro-Caribbean spiritual tradition originating among enslaved Africans in Jamaica, characterized by spirit possession, healing rituals, and resistance to oppression.
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E.
Marc
Marc is the given name of Marc Andreessen, the influential American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist known for co-creating the Mosaic web browser and co-founding Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz.
- 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: Mir Target entity description: Mir was a Soviet and later Russian modular space station that served as a long-term research outpost in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001.
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A.
Mille
Mille is a French surname most notably borne by individuals such as Stéphane Mille.
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B.
Mitu
Mitu is a genus of large, ground-dwelling curassows—game birds native to Neotropical forests in South America.
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C.
Miller
Miller is a common English and Scottish occupational surname historically given to people who worked in grain mills.
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D.
Myal
Myal is an Afro-Caribbean spiritual tradition originating among enslaved Africans in Jamaica, characterized by spirit possession, healing rituals, and resistance to oppression.
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E.
Marc
Marc is the given name of Marc Andreessen, the influential American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist known for co-creating the Mosaic web browser and co-founding Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Mir Description of subject: Mir was a Soviet and later Russian modular space station that served as a long-term research outpost in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Helen Sharman