Alan Shepard
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Alan Shepard was a pioneering NASA astronaut and naval aviator who became the first American in space and later walked on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Shepard canonical | 20 |
| Alan B. Shepard Jr. | 7 |
| Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. | 2 |
| Dr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. | 1 |
| astronaut Alan Shepard | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1116609 — 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: Alan Shepard Context triple: [Mercury program, firstHumanInSpaceForUSA, Alan Shepard]
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A.
Neil A. Armstrong
Neil A. Armstrong was an American astronaut, naval aviator, and aerospace engineer best known as the first person to walk on the Moon during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.
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B.
John Glenn
John Glenn was a pioneering American astronaut, the first U.S. citizen to orbit Earth, and later a long-serving U.S. senator.
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C.
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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D.
Thomas Stafford
Thomas Stafford is a retired United States Air Force general and NASA astronaut best known for commanding the Apollo 10 mission and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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E.
Edward White
Edward White was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known as the first American to conduct a spacewalk during the Gemini 4 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: Alan Shepard Target entity description: Alan Shepard was a pioneering NASA astronaut and naval aviator who became the first American in space and later walked on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
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A.
Neil A. Armstrong
Neil A. Armstrong was an American astronaut, naval aviator, and aerospace engineer best known as the first person to walk on the Moon during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.
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B.
John Glenn
John Glenn was a pioneering American astronaut, the first U.S. citizen to orbit Earth, and later a long-serving U.S. senator.
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C.
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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D.
Thomas Stafford
Thomas Stafford is a retired United States Air Force general and NASA astronaut best known for commanding the Apollo 10 mission and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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E.
Edward White
Edward White was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known as the first American to conduct a spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Alan Shepard Description of subject: Alan Shepard was a pioneering NASA astronaut and naval aviator who became the first American in space and later walked on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
this entity surface form:
astronaut Alan Shepard
this entity surface form:
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
this entity surface form:
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.
this entity surface form:
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.
this entity surface form:
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
this entity surface form:
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
this entity surface form:
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
this entity surface form:
Dr. Alan B. Shepard Jr.
this entity surface form:
Alan B. Shepard Jr.