Karol J. Bobko
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Karol J. Bobko was an American astronaut and Air Force officer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and became the first commander of Space Shuttle Atlantis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Karol J. Bobko canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5230171 — 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: Karol J. Bobko Context triple: [NASA Astronaut Group 8, includes, Karol J. Bobko]
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A.
Joseph Kopechne
Joseph Kopechne was the father of Mary Jo Kopechne, the young political campaign worker who died in the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
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B.
Zhozef Kotin
Zhozef Kotin was a prominent Soviet tank designer best known for leading the development of several heavy tanks used during World War II.
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C.
Donald J. Kutyna
Donald J. Kutyna is a U.S. Air Force general and aerospace engineer who served as a key member of the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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D.
John Ogrodnick
John Ogrodnick is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger best known for his high-scoring NHL career, primarily with the Detroit Red Wings, during the 1980s.
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E.
Edward Ochab
Edward Ochab was a Polish communist politician who briefly served as the de facto leader of Poland in 1956, overseeing the political transition during the Polish October reforms.
- 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: Karol J. Bobko Target entity description: Karol J. Bobko was an American astronaut and Air Force officer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and became the first commander of Space Shuttle Atlantis.
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A.
Joseph Kopechne
Joseph Kopechne was the father of Mary Jo Kopechne, the young political campaign worker who died in the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
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B.
Zhozef Kotin
Zhozef Kotin was a prominent Soviet tank designer best known for leading the development of several heavy tanks used during World War II.
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C.
Donald J. Kutyna
Donald J. Kutyna is a U.S. Air Force general and aerospace engineer who served as a key member of the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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D.
John Ogrodnick
John Ogrodnick is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger best known for his high-scoring NHL career, primarily with the Detroit Red Wings, during the 1980s.
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E.
Edward Ochab
Edward Ochab was a Polish communist politician who briefly served as the de facto leader of Poland in 1956, overseeing the political transition during the Polish October reforms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Air Force officer
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astronaut ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Defense Superior Service Medal
NERFINISHED
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Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Exceptional Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-12-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2023-08-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Aerospace Research Pilot School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Air Force Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Bobko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
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spaceflight ⓘ |
| fullName | Karol Joseph Bobko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Karol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableFor | first commander of Space Shuttle Atlantis ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of first flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| partOf | Manned Orbiting Laboratory program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
commander of STS-51-D
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commander of STS-51-J ⓘ pilot of STS-6 ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronaut | 1969 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-51-D
NERFINISHED
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STS-51-J NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasOnBoard |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Challenger NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery 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: Karol J. Bobko Description of subject: Karol J. Bobko was an American astronaut and Air Force officer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and became the first commander of Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.