David McDowell Brown
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David McDowell Brown was a United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David McDowell Brown canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4855118 — 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 McDowell Brown Context triple: [David M. Brown, fullName, David McDowell Brown]
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A.
James McDowell
James McDowell was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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B.
Thomas J. Brown
Thomas J. Brown is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine.
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C.
William Lee Scott
William Lee Scott is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Opposite of Sex" and the television series "The Steve Harvey Show."
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D.
David Hilliard
David Hilliard is an American activist and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, known for his prominent role in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
- 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 McDowell Brown Target entity description: David McDowell Brown was a United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
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A.
James McDowell
James McDowell was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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B.
Thomas J. Brown
Thomas J. Brown is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine.
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C.
William Lee Scott
William Lee Scott is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Opposite of Sex" and the television series "The Steve Harvey Show."
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D.
David Hilliard
David Hilliard is an American activist and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, known for his prominent role in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Navy officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
NERFINISHED
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Defense Distinguished Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Defense Superior Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Space Shuttle Columbia disaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-04-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2003-02-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
College of William & Mary
NERFINISHED
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Eastern Virginia Medical School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
biology
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medicine ⓘ |
| fullName | David McDowell Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity | human spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificSuffix | M.D. ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | flight surgeon ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Cold War era service ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | launch of STS-107 on 2003-01-16 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the seven astronauts killed in the Columbia STS-107 disaster ⓘ |
| notableWork | research on STS-107 microgravity experiments ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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naval aviator ⓘ |
| participantIn | Space Shuttle Columbia disaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | crew of STS-107 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Arlington, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | over Texas, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld | mission specialist ⓘ |
| rememberedFor | service as a physician-astronaut on Columbia ⓘ |
| residence | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | United States Navy officer service ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceMission | STS-107 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeInSpace | 15 days 22 hours 20 minutes ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 McDowell Brown Description of subject: David McDowell Brown was a United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.