James A. McDivitt
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James A. McDivitt was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force test pilot who commanded the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions during the early years of American crewed spaceflight.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James A. McDivitt canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5458739 — 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: James A. McDivitt Context triple: [X-20 Dyna-Soar, notableSelectedPilot, James A. McDivitt]
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A.
John de Borman
John de Borman is a British cinematographer known for his work on feature films and television, including the romantic drama "Last Chance Harvey."
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B.
Deke Slayton
Deke Slayton was one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts who later became the agency’s first Chief of the Astronaut Office and eventually flew in space on the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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C.
Glenn Stafford
Glenn Stafford is an American video game music composer best known for his influential scores for Blizzard Entertainment titles such as StarCraft and the Warcraft series.
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D.
Scott Carpenter
Scott Carpenter was one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts and the second American to orbit the Earth.
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E.
Frank Borman
Frank Borman is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known for commanding the historic Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
- 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: James A. McDivitt Target entity description: James A. McDivitt was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force test pilot who commanded the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions during the early years of American crewed spaceflight.
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A.
John de Borman
John de Borman is a British cinematographer known for his work on feature films and television, including the romantic drama "Last Chance Harvey."
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B.
Deke Slayton
Deke Slayton was one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts who later became the agency’s first Chief of the Astronaut Office and eventually flew in space on the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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C.
Glenn Stafford
Glenn Stafford is an American video game music composer best known for his influential scores for Blizzard Entertainment titles such as StarCraft and the Warcraft series.
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D.
Scott Carpenter
Scott Carpenter was one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts and the second American to orbit the Earth.
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E.
Frank Borman
Frank Borman is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known for commanding the historic Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
NERFINISHED
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Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Exceptional Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1929-06-10 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commandedMission |
Apollo 9
NERFINISHED
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Gemini 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Korean War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewmate |
David R. Scott
NERFINISHED
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Edward H. White II NERFINISHED ⓘ Russell L. Schweickart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2022-10-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Michigan College of Engineering NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | University of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | McDivitt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | aeronautical engineering ⓘ |
| fullName | James Alton McDivitt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Group 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Brigadier general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding Apollo 9, the first crewed flight test of the Lunar Module
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commanding Gemini 4, the first American multi-day spaceflight ⓘ |
| occupation |
aerospace engineer
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astronaut ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participatedIn | early American crewed spaceflight program ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tucson, Arizona, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Manager of the Apollo Program (spacecraft) at NASA
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Manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program ⓘ |
| program |
Apollo program
NERFINISHED
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Gemini program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromNASA | 1972 ⓘ |
| roleInMission |
Apollo 9 commander
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Gemini 4 commander ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronaut | 1962 ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Apollo 9
NERFINISHED
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Gemini 4 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: James A. McDivitt Description of subject: James A. McDivitt was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force test pilot who commanded the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions during the early years of American crewed spaceflight.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.