David Wolf
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David Wolf is an American astronaut and physician known for his long-duration missions aboard the Russian Mir space station and the International Space Station.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Wolf canonical | 3 |
| David A. Wolf | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3156439 — 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 Wolf Context triple: [Wendi Deng, spouse, David Wolf]
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A.
Richard Wolf
Richard Wolf was a German-born Cuban diplomat, inventor, and philanthropist best known for founding the Wolf Foundation, which awards the prestigious Wolf Prizes in fields such as science and the arts.
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B.
Daniel A. Wolf
Daniel A. Wolf is an American entrepreneur and politician best known as the founder of regional airline Cape Air and as a former Massachusetts state senator.
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C.
Ian Wolfe
Ian Wolfe was an American character actor known for his prolific career in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, often portraying dignified or scholarly supporting roles.
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D.
Jeremy Wolfenden
Jeremy Wolfenden was a brilliant yet troubled British journalist, spy, and intellectual of the mid-20th century whose short, tumultuous life became emblematic of wasted talent and Cold War intrigue.
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E.
Daniel Wallace
Daniel Wallace is an American novelist best known for his whimsical, magical-realist work "Big Fish," which was later adapted into a popular film and stage musical.
- 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 Wolf Target entity description: David Wolf is an American astronaut and physician known for his long-duration missions aboard the Russian Mir space station and the International Space Station.
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A.
Richard Wolf
Richard Wolf was a German-born Cuban diplomat, inventor, and philanthropist best known for founding the Wolf Foundation, which awards the prestigious Wolf Prizes in fields such as science and the arts.
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B.
Daniel A. Wolf
Daniel A. Wolf is an American entrepreneur and politician best known as the founder of regional airline Cape Air and as a former Massachusetts state senator.
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C.
Ian Wolfe
Ian Wolfe was an American character actor known for his prolific career in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, often portraying dignified or scholarly supporting roles.
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D.
Jeremy Wolfenden
Jeremy Wolfenden was a brilliant yet troubled British journalist, spy, and intellectual of the mid-20th century whose short, tumultuous life became emblematic of wasted talent and Cold War intrigue.
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E.
Daniel Wallace
Daniel Wallace is an American novelist best known for his whimsical, magical-realist work "Big Fish," which was later adapted into a popular film and stage musical.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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astronaut ⓘ human ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Purdue University
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surface form:
Purdue University School of Electrical Engineering
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Purdue University ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
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extravehicular activity operations ⓘ space medicine ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering ⓘ |
| hasExperience |
international space cooperation with Russia
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long-duration spaceflight ⓘ microgravity medical research ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to space station assembly and operations
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long-duration mission on Mir ⓘ long-duration mission on the International Space Station ⓘ |
| notableWork | research in microgravity life sciences ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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physician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
International Space Station program
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Shuttle–Mir Program ⓘ |
| performed | spacewalk ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Expedition 16
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Mir NASA-6 ⓘ STS-112 ⓘ STS-127 ⓘ STS-58 ⓘ STS-86 ⓘ STS-89 ⓘ |
| specialization |
biomedical engineering
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internal medicine ⓘ |
| trainedIn | cosmonaut training at Star City ⓘ |
| wasOnBoard |
International Space Station
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Mir ⓘ Space Shuttle Atlantis ⓘ Space Shuttle Columbia ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour ⓘ |
| workLocation | Johnson Space Center ⓘ |
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: David Wolf Description of subject: David Wolf is an American astronaut and physician known for his long-duration missions aboard the Russian Mir space station and the International Space Station.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
David A. Wolf
this entity surface form:
David A. Wolf