Tom Akers
E203631
Tom Akers is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known for his multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Akers canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1617633 — 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: Tom Akers Context triple: [STS-61, crewMember, Tom Akers]
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A.
Tom Leppert
Tom Leppert is an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, and later ran for the U.S. Senate.
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B.
Jeffrey Fuller
Jeffrey Fuller is known primarily as the son of prominent American lawyer, feminist, and civil liberties advocate Crystal Eastman.
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C.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Ted Cheesman
Ted Cheesman was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the 1933 monster film "King Kong."
- 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: Tom Akers Target entity description: Tom Akers is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known for his multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
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A.
Tom Leppert
Tom Leppert is an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Dallas, Texas, and later ran for the U.S. Senate.
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B.
Jeffrey Fuller
Jeffrey Fuller is known primarily as the son of prominent American lawyer, feminist, and civil liberties advocate Crystal Eastman.
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C.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Ted Cheesman
Ted Cheesman was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the 1933 monster film "King Kong."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
United States Air Force officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
ⓘ
surface form:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States Air Force ⓘ |
| familyName | Akers ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
ⓘ
space exploration ⓘ |
| genreOfOccupation | spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| hasFlownOnSpaceShuttle |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Discovery ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission
ⓘ
multiple Space Shuttle missions ⓘ |
| notableWork | servicing the Hubble Space Telescope on STS-61 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| performedExtravehicularActivity | yes ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronautBy | NASA ⓘ |
| serviceNumberOfSpaceFlights | 4 ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-41
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STS-49 ⓘ STS-61 ⓘ STS-79 ⓘ |
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: Tom Akers Description of subject: Tom Akers is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known for his multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.