STS-86
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STS-86 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle mission that conducted a docking with the Russian Mir space station as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-86 canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5050272 — 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: STS-86 Context triple: [Space Shuttle Atlantis, mission, STS-86]
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A.
STS-89
STS-89 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the Russian Mir space station that conducted crew transfer and scientific research as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
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B.
STS-88
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, delivering and assembling its initial U.S. and Russian modules in orbit.
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C.
STS-83
STS-83 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity science research as part of the Microgravity Science Laboratory program.
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D.
STS-87
STS-87 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and solar physics experiments, notable for including astronaut Kalpana Chawla among its crew.
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E.
STS-84
STS-84 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle mission that carried Atlantis to the Russian Mir space station for crew transfer, resupply, and scientific research.
- 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: STS-86 Target entity description: STS-86 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle mission that conducted a docking with the Russian Mir space station as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
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A.
STS-89
STS-89 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the Russian Mir space station that conducted crew transfer and scientific research as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
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B.
STS-88
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, delivering and assembling its initial U.S. and Russian modules in orbit.
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C.
STS-83
STS-83 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity science research as part of the Microgravity Science Laboratory program.
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D.
STS-87
STS-87 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and solar physics experiments, notable for including astronaut Kalpana Chawla among its crew.
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E.
STS-84
STS-84 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle mission that carried Atlantis to the Russian Mir space station for crew transfer, resupply, and scientific research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA spaceflight
ⓘ
Space Shuttle mission ⓘ |
| commander | James D. Wetherbee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewSize | 7 ⓘ |
| dockingPort | Mir Docking Module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockingTarget | Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| evaCount | 1 ⓘ |
| evaDuration | 5 hours 1 minute ⓘ |
| evaPerformedBy |
Scott E. Parazynski
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vladimir G. Titov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | STS-87 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1997-10-06 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1997-09-25 ⓘ |
| launchMass | 116,000 kilograms ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
ⓘ
LC-39A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 10 days 19 hours 21 minutes ⓘ |
| missionNumber | 87 ⓘ |
| missionObjective |
Conduct crew exchange on Mir
ⓘ
Conduct joint U.S.–Russian experiments ⓘ Dock with the Russian space station Mir ⓘ Transfer supplies and equipment to Mir ⓘ |
| missionPatchShape | circular ⓘ |
| missionSpecialist |
C. Michael Foale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David A. Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-Loup Chrétien NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott E. Parazynski NERFINISHED ⓘ Vladimir G. Titov NERFINISHED ⓘ Wendy B. Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notable |
Part of Phase One of the International Space Station program
ⓘ
Seventh Shuttle docking with Mir ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitApogee | approximately 394 kilometers ⓘ |
| orbitInclination | 51.6 degrees ⓘ |
| orbitingTarget | Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitPerigee | approximately 379 kilometers ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 169 ⓘ |
| pilot | Michael J. Bloomfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | STS-85 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| program |
Shuttle–Mir program
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NASA Space Shuttle program ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
|
| roleChange |
C. Michael Foale returned from Mir
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David A. Wolf launched to Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Space Shuttle Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftSerial | OV-104 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttle | Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| year | 1997 ⓘ |
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: STS-86 Description of subject: STS-86 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle mission that conducted a docking with the Russian Mir space station as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.