Scott E. Parazynski
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Scott E. Parazynski is an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and mountaineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later summited Mount Everest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scott E. Parazynski canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5125560 — 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: Scott E. Parazynski Context triple: [STS-95, crewMember, Scott E. Parazynski]
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A.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
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B.
Donald Schmitt
Donald Schmitt is a Canadian architect known for co-founding the prominent firm Diamond and Schmitt Architects and contributing to major cultural and institutional building projects.
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C.
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
Jeffrey A. Hoffman is an American NASA astronaut and astrophysicist best known for his multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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Eric A. Boe
Eric A. Boe is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force fighter and test pilot who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
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E.
Michael J. Massimino
Michael J. Massimino is a former NASA astronaut and engineer best known for his space shuttle missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope and for later appearing as himself on the TV show "The Big Bang Theory."
- 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: Scott E. Parazynski Target entity description: Scott E. Parazynski is an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and mountaineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later summited Mount Everest.
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A.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
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B.
Donald Schmitt
Donald Schmitt is a Canadian architect known for co-founding the prominent firm Diamond and Schmitt Architects and contributing to major cultural and institutional building projects.
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C.
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
Jeffrey A. Hoffman is an American NASA astronaut and astrophysicist best known for his multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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D.
Eric A. Boe
Eric A. Boe is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force fighter and test pilot who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
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E.
Michael J. Massimino
Michael J. Massimino is a former NASA astronaut and engineer best known for his space shuttle missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope and for later appearing as himself on the TV show "The Big Bang Theory."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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human ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| almaMater | Stanford University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boardCertification | emergency medicine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-07-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfEverestSummit | 2009-05-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University School of Medicine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Parazynski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace medicine
ⓘ
space exploration ⓘ |
| firsts | first person to have flown in space and summited Mount Everest ⓘ |
| founded | Fluidity Technologies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWriting | autobiography ⓘ |
| givenName | Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
NERFINISHED
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NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Exceptional Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medicalSpecialty |
aerospace medicine
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emergency medicine ⓘ |
| name | Scott Edward Parazynski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NASAAstronautGroup | NASA Astronaut Group 14 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
flying on the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95 with John Glenn
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repairing a damaged solar array on the International Space Station during STS-120 ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
mountaineer ⓘ physician ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| performedSpacewalk | true ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Little Rock, Arkansas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor at Arizona State University ⓘ |
| residence | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectionYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-100
NERFINISHED
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STS-120 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-66 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-86 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-95 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Meenakshi Wadhwa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| summited | Mount Everest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| totalEVAs | 7 ⓘ |
| totalEVATime | 47 hours 5 minutes ⓘ |
| totalSpaceFlights | 5 ⓘ |
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: Scott E. Parazynski Description of subject: Scott E. Parazynski is an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and mountaineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later summited Mount Everest.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.