Kathryn Scobee
E211043
Kathryn Scobee is the daughter of Francis R. Scobee, the NASA astronaut and commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger's final mission.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kathryn Scobee canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1819263 — 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: Kathryn Scobee Context triple: [Francis R. Scobee, hasChild, Kathryn Scobee]
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A.
Judith Resnik
Judith Resnik was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut who became one of the first American women in space and tragically died during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
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B.
Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer who became the first woman of Indian origin in space and tragically died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
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C.
Eileen Collins
Eileen Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force colonel who became the first woman to pilot and later command a Space Shuttle mission.
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D.
Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
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E.
Laurel B. Clark
Laurel B. Clark was a U.S. Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle Columbia and died in the STS-107 disaster in 2003.
- 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: Kathryn Scobee Target entity description: Kathryn Scobee is the daughter of Francis R. Scobee, the NASA astronaut and commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger's final mission.
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A.
Judith Resnik
Judith Resnik was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut who became one of the first American women in space and tragically died during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
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B.
Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer who became the first woman of Indian origin in space and tragically died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
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C.
Eileen Collins
Eileen Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force colonel who became the first woman to pilot and later command a Space Shuttle mission.
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D.
Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
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E.
Laurel B. Clark
Laurel B. Clark was a U.S. Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle Columbia and died in the STS-107 disaster in 2003.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Space Shuttle mission
ⓘ
Space Shuttle orbiter ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child | Kathryn Scobee self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| commanderOf |
STS-51L
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surface form:
Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51-L
|
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName |
June Kent Scobee
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surface form:
Scobee
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| father | Francis R. Scobee ⓘ |
| givenName | Kathryn ⓘ |
| hasCommander | Francis R. Scobee ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Francis R. Scobee ⓘ |
| occupation | astronaut ⓘ |
| operator |
NASA
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NASA ⓘ |
| parent | Francis R. Scobee ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Space Shuttle commander ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Space Shuttle Challenger ⓘ |
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: Kathryn Scobee Description of subject: Kathryn Scobee is the daughter of Francis R. Scobee, the NASA astronaut and commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger's final mission.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Francis R. Scobee