Douglas H. Wheelock
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Douglas H. Wheelock is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Army colonel known for his spaceflights on the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, including serving as commander of Expedition 25.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Douglas H. Wheelock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5224952 — 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: Douglas H. Wheelock Context triple: [STS-120, missionSpecialist, Douglas H. Wheelock]
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A.
Robert B. Stearns
Robert B. Stearns was an American financier best known as a co-founder of the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.
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B.
Timothy L. Pflueger
Timothy L. Pflueger was a prominent American architect known for his influential Art Deco and Moderne designs in the San Francisco Bay Area, including major theaters, skyscrapers, and civic projects.
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C.
Thomas J. Biersteker
Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
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D.
James A. Abrahamson
James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
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E.
Kenneth W. Hess
Kenneth W. Hess is an aerospace and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
- 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: Douglas H. Wheelock Target entity description: Douglas H. Wheelock is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Army colonel known for his spaceflights on the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, including serving as commander of Expedition 25.
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A.
Robert B. Stearns
Robert B. Stearns was an American financier best known as a co-founder of the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.
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B.
Timothy L. Pflueger
Timothy L. Pflueger was a prominent American architect known for his influential Art Deco and Moderne designs in the San Francisco Bay Area, including major theaters, skyscrapers, and civic projects.
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C.
Thomas J. Biersteker
Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
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D.
James A. Abrahamson
James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
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E.
Kenneth W. Hess
Kenneth W. Hess is an aerospace and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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human ⓘ military officer ⓘ spacewalker ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Bronze Star Medal
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Defense Superior Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ NASA Exceptional Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Georgia Institute of Technology
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Army Command and General Staff College NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Military Academy at West Point NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Wheelock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
aerospace engineering
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applied science ⓘ |
| givenName | Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
flew on Space Shuttle Discovery
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participated in ISS assembly missions ⓘ performed multiple extravehicular activities ⓘ served as a test pilot for the U.S. Army ⓘ served as commander of the International Space Station ⓘ |
| notableWork |
long-duration mission on the International Space Station
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sharing Earth photography from space via social media ⓘ spacewalks for ISS assembly and maintenance ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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engineer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| partOf |
International Space Station Expedition 24
NERFINISHED
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International Space Station Expedition 25 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
commander of Expedition 25
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flight engineer of Expedition 24 ⓘ mission specialist on STS-120 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialMediaPlatform |
Twitter, Inc.
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surface form:
Twitter
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| spacecraft |
Soyuz TMA-19
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Expedition 24
NERFINISHED
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Expedition 25 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-120 NERFINISHED ⓘ Soyuz TMA-19 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Johnson Space Center 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: Douglas H. Wheelock Description of subject: Douglas H. Wheelock is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Army colonel known for his spaceflights on the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, including serving as commander of Expedition 25.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.