David C. Hilmers
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David C. Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions before later becoming a physician and academic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David C. Hilmers canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T912675 — 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: David C. Hilmers Context triple: [STS-42, crewMember, David C. Hilmers]
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A.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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B.
David M. Satterfield
David M. Satterfield is an American diplomat and former U.S. ambassador who has held several senior foreign policy roles, including directing Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
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C.
Karl C. Mamola
Karl C. Mamola is a distinguished physics educator recognized for his significant contributions to physics teaching and learning.
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D.
Robert T. Herres
Robert T. Herres was a United States Air Force general who became the first Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a key leader in U.S. military space and strategic command operations.
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E.
R. Lawrence Kirkegaard
R. Lawrence Kirkegaard is an acoustical engineer renowned for designing high-performance concert hall acoustics, including those of Seiji Ozawa Hall.
- 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: David C. Hilmers Target entity description: David C. Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions before later becoming a physician and academic.
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A.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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B.
David M. Satterfield
David M. Satterfield is an American diplomat and former U.S. ambassador who has held several senior foreign policy roles, including directing Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
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C.
Karl C. Mamola
Karl C. Mamola is a distinguished physics educator recognized for his significant contributions to physics teaching and learning.
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D.
Robert T. Herres
Robert T. Herres was a United States Air Force general who became the first Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a key leader in U.S. military space and strategic command operations.
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E.
R. Lawrence Kirkegaard
R. Lawrence Kirkegaard is an acoustical engineer renowned for designing high-performance concert hall acoustics, including those of Seiji Ozawa Hall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Marine Corps officer ⓘ academic ⓘ human ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Defense Superior Service Medal
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Legion of Merit ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Baylor College of Medicine
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Cornell College ⓘ Naval Postgraduate School ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
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surface form:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| familyName | Hilmers ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
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global health ⓘ internal medicine ⓘ medicine ⓘ pediatrics ⓘ |
| genre | spaceflight memoirs ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
medical missions in developing countries
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spaceflight ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| name | David C. Hilmers self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
flying on four Space Shuttle missions
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transitioning from astronaut to physician and academic ⓘ |
| notableWork |
participation in Space Shuttle return-to-flight mission STS-26
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research in global health and pediatrics ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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military officer ⓘ physician ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
NASA Space Shuttle program
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surface form:
Space Shuttle program
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| positionHeld |
mission specialist
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professor at Baylor College of Medicine ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-26
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STS-42 ⓘ STS-51-J ⓘ STS-61-A ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Houston, Texas, United States
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surface form:
Houston, Texas
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: David C. Hilmers Description of subject: David C. Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Marine Corps officer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions before later becoming a physician and academic.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.