James S. Voss
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James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James S. Voss canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4861194 — 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 S. Voss Context triple: [STS-44, missionSpecialist, James S. Voss]
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A.
Vincent G. Kling
Vincent G. Kling was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his influential modernist designs and major urban projects, particularly in Philadelphia.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Ronald L. Vaughn
Ronald L. Vaughn is an American academic administrator best known for leading the University of Tampa through significant growth and development as its long-serving president.
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E.
Glenn S. Dumke
Glenn S. Dumke was an American historian and academic administrator best known for leading and expanding the California State University system during his long tenure as its chancellor.
- 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 S. Voss Target entity description: James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
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A.
Vincent G. Kling
Vincent G. Kling was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his influential modernist designs and major urban projects, particularly in Philadelphia.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Ronald L. Vaughn
Ronald L. Vaughn is an American academic administrator best known for leading the University of Tampa through significant growth and development as its long-serving president.
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E.
Glenn S. Dumke
Glenn S. Dumke was an American historian and academic administrator best known for leading and expanding the California State University system during his long tenure as its chancellor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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U.S. Army officer ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Army Commendation Medal
NERFINISHED
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Defense Meritorious Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Defense Superior Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ Meritorious Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Exceptional Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Auburn University
NERFINISHED
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University of Colorado Boulder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Voss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | aerospace engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| laterWork | engineering and academic roles after NASA career ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Cold War era service ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Colonel ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
flew on five Space Shuttle missions
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participated in assembly and early operations of the International Space Station ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
launched to ISS on Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-102
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returned from ISS on Space Shuttle Endeavour during STS-105 ⓘ served as flight engineer on Expedition 2 to the ISS ⓘ |
| notableWork | long-duration mission on the International Space Station ⓘ |
| numberOfEVAs | multiple spacewalks ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
engineer ⓘ |
| performedExtravehicularActivity | yes ⓘ |
| retiredFrom |
NASA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceNumberOfSpaceFlights | 5 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Expedition 2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
STS-101 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-102 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-44 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-53 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-69 NERFINISHED ⓘ Soyuz TM-31 NERFINISHED ⓘ Soyuz TM-32 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeInSpace | over 200 days ⓘ |
| timeOnISS | over five months ⓘ |
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 S. Voss Description of subject: James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.