STS-61-C
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STS-61-C was a 1986 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission notable for carrying future U.S. Senator and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson as a payload specialist.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-61-C canonical | 4 |
| STS-61C | 3 |
| Space Shuttle mission STS-61C | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1469507 — 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: STS-61-C Context triple: [Bill Nelson, spaceMission, STS-61-C]
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A.
STS-61
STS-61 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission best known for successfully repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope during a series of complex spacewalks.
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B.
STS-41B
STS-41B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission best known for the first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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C.
STS-41-D
STS-41-D was the maiden orbital mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery, launched by NASA in 1984 to deploy communications satellites and conduct scientific experiments.
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D.
STS-51-G
STS-51-G was a 1985 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that deployed multiple communications satellites and conducted scientific experiments in low Earth orbit.
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E.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
- 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: STS-61-C Target entity description: STS-61-C was a 1986 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission notable for carrying future U.S. Senator and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson as a payload specialist.
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A.
STS-61
STS-61 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission best known for successfully repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope during a series of complex spacewalks.
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B.
STS-41B
STS-41B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission best known for the first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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C.
STS-41-D
STS-41-D was the maiden orbital mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery, launched by NASA in 1984 to deploy communications satellites and conduct scientific experiments.
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D.
STS-51-G
STS-51-G was a 1985 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that deployed multiple communications satellites and conducted scientific experiments in low Earth orbit.
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E.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: STS-61-C Description of subject: STS-61-C was a 1986 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission notable for carrying future U.S. Senator and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson as a payload specialist.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
STS-61C
this entity surface form:
STS-61C
this entity surface form:
Space Shuttle mission STS-61C
this entity surface form:
STS-61C