Sharon
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Sharon is the given first name of Christa McAuliffe, the American teacher and astronaut who was selected as the first private citizen in space and died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sharon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1806828 — 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: Sharon Context triple: [Christa McAuliffe, givenName, Sharon]
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A.
Sharon
Sharon is a suburban town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, known for its residential character, natural conservation areas, and proximity to Boston.
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B.
Sharon Lepore
Sharon Lepore is known as one of the former wives of famed American television and radio host Larry King.
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C.
Shoshanna Shapiro
Shoshanna Shapiro is a bubbly, fast-talking, and naive yet increasingly self-assured young woman featured as one of the core friends navigating adulthood in the TV series "Girls."
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D.
Sharon Black
Sharon Black is a notable individual whose achievements or public presence have made the surname Black recognizable in her context.
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E.
Sharon Curry
Sharon Curry is the wife of Michael Bruce Curry, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
- 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: Sharon Target entity description: Sharon is the given first name of Christa McAuliffe, the American teacher and astronaut who was selected as the first private citizen in space and died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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A.
Sharon
Sharon is a suburban town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, known for its residential character, natural conservation areas, and proximity to Boston.
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B.
Sharon Lepore
Sharon Lepore is known as one of the former wives of famed American television and radio host Larry King.
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C.
Shoshanna Shapiro
Shoshanna Shapiro is a bubbly, fast-talking, and naive yet increasingly self-assured young woman featured as one of the core friends navigating adulthood in the TV series "Girls."
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D.
Sharon Black
Sharon Black is a notable individual whose achievements or public presence have made the surname Black recognizable in her context.
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E.
Sharon Curry
Sharon Curry is the wife of Michael Bruce Curry, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronaut
ⓘ
human ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Congressional Space Medal of Honor ⓘ |
| birthName | Sharon Christa Corrigan ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-09-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-01-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Bowie State College
ⓘ
Framingham State University ⓘ
surface form:
Framingham State College
|
| employer | Concord High School ⓘ |
| familyName | McAuliffe ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
ⓘ
space exploration ⓘ |
| givenName | Sharon self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Caroline McAuliffe
ⓘ
Scott McAuliffe ⓘ |
| hasHonorificName | Christa McAuliffe ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Teacher in Space Project
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Teacher in Space Project
|
| namedAfter | Saint Christa (as middle name usage) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being selected as the first teacher in space
ⓘ
dying in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
teacher ⓘ |
| participantIn |
STS-51L
ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L
|
| placeOfBirth |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
|
| placeOfDeath | over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Florida, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Concord, New Hampshire
ⓘ
surface form:
Concord, New Hampshire, United States
|
| selectedAs | first private citizen in space ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleMission | STS-51-L ⓘ |
| spouse | Steven McAuliffe ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Concord, New Hampshire
ⓘ
surface form:
Concord, New Hampshire, United States
|
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: Sharon Description of subject: Sharon is the given first name of Christa McAuliffe, the American teacher and astronaut who was selected as the first private citizen in space and died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.