New Nine
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New Nine were the second group of NASA astronauts, selected in 1962, who played key roles in the Gemini and Apollo programs, including several future Moon-landing commanders.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Nine canonical | 1 |
| The New Nine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5817628 — 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: New Nine Context triple: [Mercury Seven, followedBy, New Nine]
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A.
New Haw
New Haw is a suburban village in Surrey, England, forming part of the commuter belt southwest of London.
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B.
Title Nine
Title Nine is a section of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States that sets out provisions related to the Supreme Court’s constitutional controversies and the mechanisms for preserving the constitutional order.
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C.
Come September
Come September is a 1961 romantic comedy film starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, and Bobby Darin, known for its lighthearted plot and picturesque Italian setting.
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D.
Release 99
Release 99 is the first 3GPP standardization release that defined the initial UMTS (3G) system architecture and capabilities.
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E.
New Youth
New Youth was an influential early 20th-century Chinese literary and intellectual magazine that championed modern ideas such as democracy, science, and vernacular language, helping to shape the New Culture Movement.
- 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: New Nine Target entity description: New Nine were the second group of NASA astronauts, selected in 1962, who played key roles in the Gemini and Apollo programs, including several future Moon-landing commanders.
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A.
New Haw
New Haw is a suburban village in Surrey, England, forming part of the commuter belt southwest of London.
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B.
Title Nine
Title Nine is a section of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States that sets out provisions related to the Supreme Court’s constitutional controversies and the mechanisms for preserving the constitutional order.
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C.
Come September
Come September is a 1961 romantic comedy film starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, and Bobby Darin, known for its lighthearted plot and picturesque Italian setting.
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D.
Release 99
Release 99 is the first 3GPP standardization release that defined the initial UMTS (3G) system architecture and capabilities.
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E.
New Youth
New Youth was an influential early 20th-century Chinese literary and intellectual magazine that championed modern ideas such as democracy, science, and vernacular language, helping to shape the New Culture Movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
NASA astronaut group ⓘ astronaut corps selection ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
NASA Astronaut Group 2
NERFINISHED
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The New Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| assignedMission | Gemini 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| followedBy | NASA Astronaut Group 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| member |
Charles "Pete" Conrad
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edward H. White II NERFINISHED ⓘ Elliot M. See Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Borman NERFINISHED ⓘ James A. Lovell Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ James A. McDivitt NERFINISHED ⓘ John W. Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Neil A. Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas P. Stafford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | New Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mission |
Apollo 10
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Apollo 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ Apollo 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ Apollo 13 NERFINISHED ⓘ Apollo 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ Apollo 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ Apollo 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ Apollo–Soyuz Test Project NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 10 NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 6A NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 9A NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-9 NERFINISHED ⓘ Skylab 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
died in Apollo 1 fire
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first American to conduct a spacewalk ⓘ first human to walk on the Moon ⓘ killed in a T-38 crash in 1966 ⓘ providing key commanders for Apollo Moon landings ⓘ |
| numberOfAstronauts | 9 ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Mercury Seven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programInvolved |
Apollo program
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gemini program NERFINISHED ⓘ Skylab program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
commander of Apollo 11
ⓘ
commander of Apollo 12 ⓘ commander of Apollo 13 ⓘ commander of Apollo 16 ⓘ commander of Apollo 8 ⓘ commander of Apollo 9 ⓘ commander of Gemini 4 ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria |
engineering or scientific education
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jet aircraft flight experience ⓘ test pilots ⓘ |
| selectionDate | 1962 ⓘ |
| selectionReason | support for Gemini and Apollo missions ⓘ |
| trainingLocation | Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston 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: New Nine Description of subject: New Nine were the second group of NASA astronauts, selected in 1962, who played key roles in the Gemini and Apollo programs, including several future Moon-landing commanders.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The New Nine