To Space and Back
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"To Space and Back" is a popular science book by astronaut Sally Ride that recounts her experiences in space and explains the science and technology of spaceflight for a general audience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| To Space and Back canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T356523 — 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: To Space and Back Context triple: [Sally K. Ride, notableWork, To Space and Back]
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A.
Follow a Star
"Follow a Star" is a 1959 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as an inept but endearing aspiring entertainer whose misadventures lead him toward unexpected success.
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B.
Blues for a Red Planet
"Blues for a Red Planet" is an episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the history, science, and human fascination surrounding the planet Mars.
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C.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
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D.
The Currents of Space
The Currents of Space is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov set in his Galactic Empire universe, exploring political intrigue, planetary exploitation, and social stratification on a distant world.
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E.
The Cosmic Connection
The Cosmic Connection is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s place in the universe and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
- 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: To Space and Back Target entity description: "To Space and Back" is a popular science book by astronaut Sally Ride that recounts her experiences in space and explains the science and technology of spaceflight for a general audience.
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A.
Follow a Star
"Follow a Star" is a 1959 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as an inept but endearing aspiring entertainer whose misadventures lead him toward unexpected success.
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B.
Blues for a Red Planet
"Blues for a Red Planet" is an episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the history, science, and human fascination surrounding the planet Mars.
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C.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
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D.
The Currents of Space
The Currents of Space is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov set in his Galactic Empire universe, exploring political intrigue, planetary exploitation, and social stratification on a distant world.
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E.
The Cosmic Connection
The Cosmic Connection is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s place in the universe and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronaut memoir
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non-fiction book ⓘ popular science book ⓘ |
| author |
Sally K. Ride
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surface form:
Sally Ride
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| basedOn | Sally Ride's spaceflight experiences ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Susan Okie ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
astronaut training
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life in space ⓘ microgravity ⓘ space shuttle missions ⓘ space technology ⓘ |
| educationalFocus |
STEM outreach
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science education ⓘ |
| explains |
effects of space on the human body
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operation of the Space Shuttle ⓘ science of spaceflight ⓘ technology of spaceflight ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
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popular science ⓘ spaceflight literature ⓘ |
| hasFormat | print book ⓘ |
| hasMediaType | text ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 176 pages ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
NASA
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Space Shuttle Challenger ⓘ space missions STS-7 and STS-41-G ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general audience
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young readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Sally K. Ride
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surface form:
Sally Ride
NASA Space Shuttle program ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
human spaceflight ⓘ space science ⓘ spaceflight ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
first-hand account by first American woman in space
ⓘ
popularizing space science ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| publisher | Harper & Row ⓘ |
| setting |
Space Shuttle
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low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| targetAgeGroup |
high school students
ⓘ
middle school students ⓘ |
| usedFor | space science outreach ⓘ |
| usedIn | science classrooms ⓘ |
| workOf |
Sally K. Ride
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surface form:
Sally Ride
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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: To Space and Back Description of subject: "To Space and Back" is a popular science book by astronaut Sally Ride that recounts her experiences in space and explains the science and technology of spaceflight for a general audience.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sally Ride