STS-94
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STS-94 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and materials science research as a reflight of the earlier STS-83 mission.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-94 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4861134 — 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: STS-94 Context triple: [Ulf Merbold, spaceMission, STS-94]
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A.
STS-97
STS-97 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that delivered and installed the first set of U.S.-built solar arrays to the International Space Station, significantly increasing the station’s power capacity.
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B.
STS-99
STS-99 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that conducted the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission to create a highly detailed 3D map of most of Earth’s land surface.
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C.
STS-96
STS-96 was a 1999 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that performed the first docking with the International Space Station after its initial assembly flights, delivering supplies and equipment.
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D.
STS-90
STS-90 was a 1998 Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on neuroscience research as part of NASA’s Neurolab program.
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E.
STS-93
STS-93 was a 1999 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission notable for deploying the Chandra X-ray Observatory, one of NASA’s Great Observatories.
- 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: STS-94 Target entity description: STS-94 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and materials science research as a reflight of the earlier STS-83 mission.
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A.
STS-97
STS-97 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that delivered and installed the first set of U.S.-built solar arrays to the International Space Station, significantly increasing the station’s power capacity.
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B.
STS-99
STS-99 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that conducted the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission to create a highly detailed 3D map of most of Earth’s land surface.
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C.
STS-96
STS-96 was a 1999 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that performed the first docking with the International Space Station after its initial assembly flights, delivering supplies and equipment.
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D.
STS-90
STS-90 was a 1998 Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on neuroscience research as part of NASA’s Neurolab program.
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E.
STS-93
STS-93 was a 1999 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission notable for deploying the Chandra X-ray Observatory, one of NASA’s Great Observatories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA spaceflight
ⓘ
Space Shuttle mission ⓘ microgravity research mission ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Microgravity Science Laboratory program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | James D. Halsell Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewSize | 7 ⓘ |
| focusArea |
biotechnology experiments
ⓘ
combustion science ⓘ fluid physics ⓘ materials science ⓘ microgravity science ⓘ |
| followedBy | STS-85 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laboratoryModule | Spacelab module ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1997-07-17 ⓘ |
| landingSite |
Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SLF Runway 33 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1997-07-01 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
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LC-39A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 15 days 16 hours 45 minutes ⓘ |
| missionOutcome | success ⓘ |
| missionSpecialist |
Donald A. Thomas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael L. Gernhardt NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger K. Crouch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionType |
materials science research
ⓘ
microgravity research ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitApogee | 306 km ⓘ |
| orbitInclination | 28.45 degrees ⓘ |
| orbitPerigee | 296 km ⓘ |
| orbitPeriod | 90.4 minutes ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 251 ⓘ |
| partOf | 1990s Space Shuttle missions ⓘ |
| payload | MSL-1R NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| payloadCommander | Janice E. Voss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| payloadSpecialist | Gregory T. Linteris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pilot | Susan L. Still NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | STS-84 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryPayload | Microgravity Science Laboratory-1R NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reflightOf | STS-83 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reflightReason | completion of experiments cut short on STS-83 ⓘ |
| spacecraft |
OV-102
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacelabModuleType | pressurized module ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleProgram | Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses | Spacelab carrier system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfSpaceflight | 1997 ⓘ |
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: STS-94 Description of subject: STS-94 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and materials science research as a reflight of the earlier STS-83 mission.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.