Discovery
E238217
Discovery is a NASA Space Shuttle orbiter best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope and flying numerous key missions in the Space Shuttle program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Discovery canonical | 27 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2139216 — 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: Discovery Context triple: [STS-31, orbiter, Discovery]
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A.
Discovery
Discovery was an English exploration ship most notably used by Henry Hudson during his early 17th-century voyages in search of a Northwest Passage.
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B.
Discovery
Discovery is a Toronto International Film Festival program that showcases emerging filmmakers and debut or early-career feature films from around the world.
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C.
Discovery
Discovery is a global media brand best known for its non-fiction television programming focused on science, exploration, nature, and real-life entertainment.
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D.
Discover
Discover is a major U.S.-based financial services company best known for its Discover credit card network and related banking products.
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E.
World Discovery
World Discovery is a themed land in EPCOT at Walt Disney World focused on science, technology, and futuristic exploration attractions.
- 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: Discovery Target entity description: Discovery is a NASA Space Shuttle orbiter best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope and flying numerous key missions in the Space Shuttle program.
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A.
Discovery
Discovery was an English exploration ship most notably used by Henry Hudson during his early 17th-century voyages in search of a Northwest Passage.
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B.
Discovery
Discovery is a Toronto International Film Festival program that showcases emerging filmmakers and debut or early-career feature films from around the world.
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C.
Discovery
Discovery is a global media brand best known for its non-fiction television programming focused on science, exploration, nature, and real-life entertainment.
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D.
Discover
Discover is a major U.S.-based financial services company best known for its Discover credit card network and related banking products.
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E.
World Discovery
World Discovery is a themed land in EPCOT at Walt Disney World focused on science, technology, and futuristic exploration attractions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Space Shuttle orbiter
ⓘ
spacecraft ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| crewCapacity | up to 7 astronauts ⓘ |
| currentLocation |
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center ⓘ |
| deployed | Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ |
| displayedAt |
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
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surface form:
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia
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| firstFlight | STS-41-D ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1984-08-30 ⓘ |
| firstFlightMissionType | operational Space Shuttle mission ⓘ |
| followedBy | Space Shuttle Atlantis ⓘ |
| height | 17.25 meters ⓘ |
| lastFlight | STS-133 ⓘ |
| lastFlightDate | 2011-02-24 ⓘ |
| launchMass | about 110000 kilograms ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B ⓘ |
| length | 37.24 meters ⓘ |
| mainEngines | three Space Shuttle Main Engines ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Rockwell International
ⓘ
Rockwell International ⓘ
surface form:
Rockwell International Space Transportation Systems Division
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| missionSTS-114Role | Return to flight after Columbia disaster ⓘ |
| missionSTS-120Role | Delivered Harmony (Node 2) to the ISS ⓘ |
| missionSTS-26Role | Return to flight after Challenger disaster ⓘ |
| missionSTS-31Role | Hubble Space Telescope deployment ⓘ |
| missionSTS-95NotableAspect | Carried John Glenn back to space at age 77 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
RRS Discovery
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surface form:
RRS Discovery used by Robert Falcon Scott
ship Discovery used by James Cook ⓘ |
| nasaOrbiterNumber | OV-103 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
deploying the Hubble Space Telescope
ⓘ
flying more missions than any other Space Shuttle orbiter at the time of its retirement ⓘ serving as orbiter for both post-Challenger and post-Columbia return-to-flight missions ⓘ |
| notableMission |
STS-114
ⓘ
STS-120 ⓘ STS-128 ⓘ STS-131 ⓘ STS-133 ⓘ STS-26 ⓘ STS-31 ⓘ STS-95 ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbiterVehicleDesignation | OV-103 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Space Shuttle
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Space Shuttle fleet
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| payloadToLEO | about 24700 kilograms ⓘ |
| precededBy | Space Shuttle Challenger ⓘ |
| propellant | liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (for main engines) ⓘ |
| retirementDate | 2011-03-09 ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | orbiter vehicle ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleProgram |
NASA Space Shuttle program
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surface form:
Space Shuttle program
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| status | retired ⓘ |
| thermalProtectionSystem | silica tiles and reinforced carbon-carbon ⓘ |
| totalDistanceTraveled | about 238 million kilometers ⓘ |
| totalFlights | 39 ⓘ |
| totalOrbits | 5830 ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | 365 days 22 hours 39 minutes ⓘ |
| wingspan | 23.79 meters ⓘ |
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: Discovery Description of subject: Discovery is a NASA Space Shuttle orbiter best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope and flying numerous key missions in the Space Shuttle program.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
STS-51-C
subject surface form:
STS-51-C
subject surface form:
STS-51-I