Koichi Wakata
E422032
Koichi Wakata is a Japanese aerospace engineer and veteran astronaut who has flown multiple long-duration missions and served as the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Koichi Wakata canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4214854 — 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: Koichi Wakata Context triple: [JAXA Astronaut Group, notableMember, Koichi Wakata]
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A.
Ellison Onizuka
Ellison Onizuka was an American astronaut and aerospace engineer who became the first Asian American and first person of Japanese ancestry to fly in space.
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B.
Yukiya Amano
Yukiya Amano was a Japanese diplomat who served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, overseeing global nuclear non-proliferation and safety efforts.
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C.
Hiroshi Amano
Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and semiconductor technology.
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D.
Matt Mason
Matt Mason is a young survivor and the son of resistance leader Tom Mason in the post-apocalyptic science fiction TV series "Falling Skies."
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E.
Alexander Gerst
Alexander Gerst is a German geophysicist and European Space Agency astronaut known for commanding the International Space Station and conducting extensive scientific research in orbit.
- 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: Koichi Wakata Target entity description: Koichi Wakata is a Japanese aerospace engineer and veteran astronaut who has flown multiple long-duration missions and served as the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station.
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A.
Ellison Onizuka
Ellison Onizuka was an American astronaut and aerospace engineer who became the first Asian American and first person of Japanese ancestry to fly in space.
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B.
Yukiya Amano
Yukiya Amano was a Japanese diplomat who served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, overseeing global nuclear non-proliferation and safety efforts.
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C.
Hiroshi Amano
Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and semiconductor technology.
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D.
Matt Mason
Matt Mason is a young survivor and the son of resistance leader Tom Mason in the post-apocalyptic science fiction TV series "Falling Skies."
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E.
Alexander Gerst
Alexander Gerst is a German geophysicist and European Space Agency astronaut known for commanding the International Space Station and conducting extensive scientific research in orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese astronaut
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aerospace engineer ⓘ astronaut ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Kyushu University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
ONNED1
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Wakata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | aerospace engineering ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | human spaceflight ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Koichi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAchievement |
logged extensive time in space across several missions
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participated in assembly and utilization of the International Space Station ⓘ |
| hasCompleted | multiple long-duration space missions ⓘ |
| hasFlownOn |
Crew Dragon mission SpaceX Crew-5
ONNED1
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Soyuz mission TMA-11 ONNED1 ⓘ Soyuz mission TMA-11M NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle mission STS-119 ONNED1 ⓘ Space Shuttle mission STS-72 ONNED1 ⓘ Space Shuttle mission STS-92 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFlownTo |
International Space Station
ONNED1
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour ONNED1 ⓘ |
| hasOccupationRole |
ISS expedition crew member
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JAXA astronaut ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NASA Astronaut Corps ONNED1 ⓘ |
| missionRole |
ISS commander
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flight engineer ⓘ |
| name | Koichi Wakata ONNED1 ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 若田 光一 ONNED1 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station ⓘ |
| occupation |
aerospace engineer
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astronaut ⓘ |
| spaceAgency |
JAXA
NERFINISHED
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NASA ⓘ |
| workLocation |
International Space Station
NERFINISHED
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Tsukuba Space Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Koichi Wakata Description of subject: Koichi Wakata is a Japanese aerospace engineer and veteran astronaut who has flown multiple long-duration missions and served as the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.