Michael S. Hopkins
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Michael S. Hopkins is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel who has flown multiple long-duration missions to the International Space Station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael S. Hopkins canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7523829 — 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: Michael S. Hopkins Context triple: [Crew-1, crewMember, Michael S. Hopkins]
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A.
Steve Rucker
Steve Rucker is an American composer best known for his work on animated television series, particularly contributing music to shows like Dexter's Laboratory.
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B.
Michael Q. Hurley
Michael Q. Hurley is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Hurley, though specific widely known public details about him are limited.
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C.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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D.
Thomas Sadoski
Thomas Sadoski is an American actor known for his roles in television series like "The Newsroom" and films such as "John Wick" and "Wild."
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E.
Michael K. Hurley
Michael K. Hurley is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinctly associated with the surname Hurley.
- 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: Michael S. Hopkins Target entity description: Michael S. Hopkins is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel who has flown multiple long-duration missions to the International Space Station.
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A.
Steve Rucker
Steve Rucker is an American composer best known for his work on animated television series, particularly contributing music to shows like Dexter's Laboratory.
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B.
Michael Q. Hurley
Michael Q. Hurley is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Hurley, though specific widely known public details about him are limited.
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C.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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D.
Thomas Sadoski
Thomas Sadoski is an American actor known for his roles in television series like "The Newsroom" and films such as "John Wick" and "Wild."
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E.
Michael K. Hurley
Michael K. Hurley is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinctly associated with the surname Hurley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Stanford University
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NERFINISHED
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United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
aeronautical engineering
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aerospace engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasExperienceIn |
ISS operations
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extravehicular activity operations ⓘ spacecraft systems testing ⓘ spaceflight operations ⓘ |
| hasFlownTo | International Space Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
NASA Astronaut Corps
NERFINISHED
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United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation in multiple long-duration ISS expeditions
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serving as commander of the first operational SpaceX Crew Dragon mission ⓘ |
| notableRank | colonel, United States Air Force ⓘ |
| notableWork | long-duration missions to the International Space Station ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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military officer ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA Astronaut Group 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedExtravehicularActivity | yes ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Crew-1 spacecraft commander
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flight engineer on Expedition 37 ⓘ flight engineer on Expedition 38 ⓘ flight engineer on Expedition 64 ⓘ flight engineer on Expedition 65 ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronautBy | NASA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Crew Dragon Resilience
NERFINISHED
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Expedition 37 NERFINISHED ⓘ Expedition 38 NERFINISHED ⓘ Expedition 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ Expedition 65 NERFINISHED ⓘ Soyuz TMA-10M NERFINISHED ⓘ SpaceX Crew-1 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: Michael S. Hopkins Description of subject: Michael S. Hopkins is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel who has flown multiple long-duration missions to the International Space Station.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.