Jonathan Clark
E372102
Jonathan Clark is known as the husband of the late NASA astronaut and physician Laurel B. Clark, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Clark canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3597438 — 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: Jonathan Clark Context triple: [Laurel B. Clark, spouse, Jonathan Clark]
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A.
Les Clark
Les Clark was an American animator and one of Disney’s famed "Nine Old Men," known for his influential work on many classic Disney films.
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B.
Tim Clark
Tim Clark is a British airline executive best known as the longtime president of Emirates, where he played a key role in transforming it into a major global carrier.
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C.
Blake Clark
Blake Clark is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, including taking over the voice of Slinky Dog in the Toy Story franchise.
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D.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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E.
Adam Gough
Adam Gough is a British film editor known for his work on acclaimed films such as "Da 5 Bloods" and "Roma."
- 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: Jonathan Clark Target entity description: Jonathan Clark is known as the husband of the late NASA astronaut and physician Laurel B. Clark, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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A.
Les Clark
Les Clark was an American animator and one of Disney’s famed "Nine Old Men," known for his influential work on many classic Disney films.
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B.
Tim Clark
Tim Clark is a British airline executive best known as the longtime president of Emirates, where he played a key role in transforming it into a major global carrier.
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C.
Blake Clark
Blake Clark is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, including taking over the voice of Slinky Dog in the Toy Story franchise.
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D.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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E.
Adam Gough
Adam Gough is a British film editor known for his work on acclaimed films such as "Da 5 Bloods" and "Roma."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| date | 2003-02-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Texas A&M University
ⓘ
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences ⓘ |
| employer |
Baylor College of Medicine
ⓘ
NASA ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace medicine
ⓘ
space medicine ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | research in neurovestibular function in space ⓘ |
| hasChild | Ian Clark ⓘ |
| memberOf | faculty of Baylor College of Medicine ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| name | Jonathan Clark self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for crew safety in human spaceflight
ⓘ
being the husband of astronaut Laurel B. Clark ⓘ work related to space medicine ⓘ |
| occupation |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
U.S. Navy flight surgeon ⓘ flight surgeon ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| parent |
Jonathan Clark
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Laurel B. Clark ⓘ |
| participatedIn | investigations related to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jonathan Clark
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Laurel B. Clark ⓘ |
| spouseDeathEvent |
Columbia disaster
ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
|
| victim | Laurel B. Clark ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Houston, Texas, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Houston, Texas
|
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: Jonathan Clark Description of subject: Jonathan Clark is known as the husband of the late NASA astronaut and physician Laurel B. Clark, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Laurel B. Clark
subject surface form:
Ian Clark