Canadian Astronaut Corps
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The Canadian Astronaut Corps is the group of professional astronauts selected and trained by Canada to fly on human spaceflight missions and represent the country in international space programs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canadian Astronaut Corps canonical | 2 |
| Canadian astronaut corps | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2372528 — 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: Canadian Astronaut Corps Context triple: [Canadian Space Agency, operates, Canadian Astronaut Corps]
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A.
Canadian Space Agency
The Canadian Space Agency is Canada’s national space organization responsible for coordinating the country’s civil space program, including satellite missions, space science, and contributions to international partnerships such as the International Space Station.
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B.
NASA Astronaut Corps
The NASA Astronaut Corps is the group of highly trained astronauts who are selected, prepared, and assigned to crewed space missions for the United States space agency.
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C.
European Astronaut Corps
The European Astronaut Corps is the group of professional astronauts selected, trained, and operated by the European Space Agency to represent Europe on human spaceflight missions.
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D.
Marc Garneau
Marc Garneau is a Canadian engineer, former astronaut, and politician who became the first Canadian in space and later served as a federal cabinet minister.
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E.
Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
The Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers was a specialized corps of the Canadian Army responsible for the maintenance, repair, and recovery of military vehicles and equipment.
- 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: Canadian Astronaut Corps Target entity description: The Canadian Astronaut Corps is the group of professional astronauts selected and trained by Canada to fly on human spaceflight missions and represent the country in international space programs.
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A.
Canadian Space Agency
The Canadian Space Agency is Canada’s national space organization responsible for coordinating the country’s civil space program, including satellite missions, space science, and contributions to international partnerships such as the International Space Station.
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B.
NASA Astronaut Corps
The NASA Astronaut Corps is the group of highly trained astronauts who are selected, prepared, and assigned to crewed space missions for the United States space agency.
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C.
European Astronaut Corps
The European Astronaut Corps is the group of professional astronauts selected, trained, and operated by the European Space Agency to represent Europe on human spaceflight missions.
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D.
Marc Garneau
Marc Garneau is a Canadian engineer, former astronaut, and politician who became the first Canadian in space and later served as a federal cabinet minister.
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E.
Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
The Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers was a specialized corps of the Canadian Army responsible for the maintenance, repair, and recovery of military vehicles and equipment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronaut corps
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space agency unit ⓘ |
| basedAt | John H. Chapman Space Centre ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
European Space Agency
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International Space Station partners ⓘ Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ⓘ NASA ⓘ Roscosmos ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| employer | Canadian Space Agency ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Bjarni Tryggvason
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Chris Hadfield ⓘ Dave Williams ⓘ David Saint-Jacques ⓘ Farah Alibay ⓘ Guy Laliberté ⓘ Jenni Sidey-Gibbons ⓘ Jeremy Hansen ⓘ Joshua Kutryk ⓘ Julie Payette ⓘ Marc Garneau ⓘ Robert Thirsk ⓘ Roberta Bondar ⓘ Steve MacLean ⓘ |
| hasRole |
representation of Canada in international space programs
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selection of Canadian astronauts ⓘ support of human spaceflight missions ⓘ training of Canadian astronauts ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Saint-Hubert, Quebec ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Artemis program
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International Space Station program ⓘ NASA Space Shuttle program ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
human spaceflight ⓘ |
| notableFor |
producing the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station
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producing the first Canadian in space ⓘ producing the first Canadian woman in space ⓘ providing astronauts to operate Canadarm and Canadarm2 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Canadian Space Agency ⓘ |
| partOf | Canadian Space Agency ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria |
Canadian citizenship
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advanced education in science, engineering, or medicine ⓘ excellent physical fitness ⓘ fluency in English or French ⓘ |
| selectionRound |
1983 Canadian astronaut selection
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1992 Canadian astronaut selection ⓘ 2009 Canadian astronaut recruitment campaign ⓘ 2017 Canadian astronaut recruitment campaign ⓘ |
| usesLanguage |
English
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French ⓘ |
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: Canadian Astronaut Corps Description of subject: The Canadian Astronaut Corps is the group of professional astronauts selected and trained by Canada to fly on human spaceflight missions and represent the country in international space programs.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Canadian astronaut corps