Richard M. Mullane
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Richard M. Mullane is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force engineer and weapons systems officer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard M. Mullane canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4967380 — 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: Richard M. Mullane Context triple: [STS-41-D, missionSpecialist, Richard M. Mullane]
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A.
Michael H. Moloney
Michael H. Moloney is a physics-focused science policy and leadership professional who serves as the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics.
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B.
Michael J. Durkan
Michael J. Durkan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Durkan surname, though specific widely known public details about him are limited.
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C.
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
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D.
Brían F. O'Byrne
Brían F. O'Byrne is an Irish actor known for his acclaimed work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "Mildred Pierce," "Brooklyn," and "Little Boy Blue."
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E.
Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
- 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: Richard M. Mullane Target entity description: Richard M. Mullane is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force engineer and weapons systems officer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s.
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A.
Michael H. Moloney
Michael H. Moloney is a physics-focused science policy and leadership professional who serves as the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics.
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B.
Michael J. Durkan
Michael J. Durkan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Durkan surname, though specific widely known public details about him are limited.
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C.
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
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D.
Brían F. O'Byrne
Brían F. O'Byrne is an Irish actor known for his acclaimed work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "Mildred Pierce," "Brooklyn," and "Little Boy Blue."
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E.
Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Air Force officer ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ weapons systems officer ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Military Engineering
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Master of Science in Aeronautical Engineering ⓘ |
| astronautSelectionYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Medal
NERFINISHED
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Defense Superior Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-09-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Air Force Institute of Technology
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| employer |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Mullane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
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spaceflight ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Group 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Michael NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Vietnam War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableEvent | flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s ⓘ |
| notableWork | Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfSpaceMissions | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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author ⓘ engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Wichita Falls, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | mission specialist ⓘ |
| residence | New Mexico, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-27
NERFINISHED
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STS-36 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-41-D NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleFlown |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | retired astronaut ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | ~13 days ⓘ |
| wasSelectedAsAstronautBy | NASA 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: Richard M. Mullane Description of subject: Richard M. Mullane is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force engineer and weapons systems officer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.