David Scott
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David Scott is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the commander of NASA's Apollo 15 mission and the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Scott canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7536694 — 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: David Scott Context triple: [Alexei Leonov, coAuthorWith, David Scott]
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A.
Jerry Linenger
Jerry Linenger is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy flight surgeon best known for his long-duration, often perilous mission aboard the Russian Mir space station in the late 1990s.
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B.
Charles M. Duke Jr.
Charles M. Duke Jr. is an American astronaut, U.S. Air Force officer, and test pilot best known for walking on the Moon during the Apollo 16 mission.
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C.
Harrison H. Schmitt
Harrison H. Schmitt is a geologist and former NASA astronaut who became the first professional scientist to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission.
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D.
James B. Irwin
James B. Irwin was a NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel who became the eighth person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission.
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E.
John Young Stewart
John Young Stewart is the birth name of Sir Jackie Stewart, the legendary Scottish Formula One racing driver and three-time World Drivers' Champion.
- 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: David Scott Target entity description: David Scott is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the commander of NASA's Apollo 15 mission and the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
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A.
Jerry Linenger
Jerry Linenger is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy flight surgeon best known for his long-duration, often perilous mission aboard the Russian Mir space station in the late 1990s.
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B.
Charles M. Duke Jr.
Charles M. Duke Jr. is an American astronaut, U.S. Air Force officer, and test pilot best known for walking on the Moon during the Apollo 16 mission.
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C.
Harrison H. Schmitt
Harrison H. Schmitt is a geologist and former NASA astronaut who became the first professional scientist to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission.
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D.
James B. Irwin
James B. Irwin was a NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel who became the eighth person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission.
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E.
John Young Stewart
John Young Stewart is the birth name of Sir Jackie Stewart, the legendary Scottish Formula One racing driver and three-time World Drivers' Champion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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astronaut ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
NERFINISHED
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Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ NASA Exceptional Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWorker |
Alfred Worden
NERFINISHED
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James A. McDivitt NERFINISHED ⓘ James B. Irwin NERFINISHED ⓘ Neil Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-06-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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USAF Experimental Test Pilot School NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
ⓘ
astronautics ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction space memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | Colonel ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first person to drive the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon
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seventh person to walk on the Moon ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Gemini 8 in-flight emergency and early mission termination ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Apollo 15 mission
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Two Sides of the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
aerospace engineer
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astronaut ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Apollo 15 lunar landing
NERFINISHED
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Apollo program NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedExtravehicularActivityOn | Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Antonio, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
command module pilot of Apollo 9
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commander of Apollo 15 ⓘ pilot of Gemini 8 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Apollo 15
NERFINISHED
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Apollo 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini 8 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: David Scott Description of subject: David Scott is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the commander of NASA's Apollo 15 mission and the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.