Brent W. Jett Jr.
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Brent W. Jett Jr. is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later held leadership roles within the astronaut corps.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brent W. Jett Jr. canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7603378 — 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: Brent W. Jett Jr. Context triple: [STS-115, commander, Brent W. Jett Jr.]
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A.
Craig R. Baxley
Craig R. Baxley is an American film and television director and former stunt coordinator known for his work on high-octane action projects in the 1980s and 1990s.
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B.
Curtis L. Brown Jr.
Curtis L. Brown Jr. is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel who piloted and commanded multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s.
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C.
Jim Gilstrap
Jim Gilstrap is an American soul and R&B singer best known for his session work and for singing the male lead vocal on the theme song to the television show "Good Times."
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D.
James G. Batterson
James G. Batterson was a 19th-century American businessman and insurance pioneer best known for founding what became the Travelers Companies.
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E.
Jim Bridwell
Jim Bridwell was a pioneering American rock climber and mountaineer renowned for his bold first ascents and influential role in the development of modern big-wall climbing in Yosemite.
- 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: Brent W. Jett Jr. Target entity description: Brent W. Jett Jr. is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later held leadership roles within the astronaut corps.
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A.
Craig R. Baxley
Craig R. Baxley is an American film and television director and former stunt coordinator known for his work on high-octane action projects in the 1980s and 1990s.
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B.
Curtis L. Brown Jr.
Curtis L. Brown Jr. is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel who piloted and commanded multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1990s.
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C.
Jim Gilstrap
Jim Gilstrap is an American soul and R&B singer best known for his session work and for singing the male lead vocal on the theme song to the television show "Good Times."
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D.
James G. Batterson
James G. Batterson was a 19th-century American businessman and insurance pioneer best known for founding what became the Travelers Companies.
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E.
Jim Bridwell
Jim Bridwell was a pioneering American rock climber and mountaineer renowned for his bold first ascents and influential role in the development of modern big-wall climbing in Yosemite.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Navy officer ⓘ human ⓘ naval aviator ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Medal
NERFINISHED
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Defense Meritorious Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Defense Superior Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ Meritorious Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Exceptional Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Naval Test Pilot School NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| employer |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NERFINISHED
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United States Navy ⓘ |
| familyName | Jett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
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human spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | Brent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| militaryStatus | retired ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
flew more than 5,000 flight hours in more than 30 different aircraft
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logged over 1,000 hours in space ⓘ participated in assembly of the International Space Station ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Space Shuttle mission STS-115 resumption of ISS assembly after Columbia accident
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle mission STS-72 retrieval of Space Flyer Unit and OAST-Flyer NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle mission STS-81 fifth Shuttle-Mir docking mission NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle mission STS-97 delivery of P6 truss segment to the International Space Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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naval aviator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief of the Astronaut Office
NERFINISHED
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Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office ⓘ Director of Operations for NASA at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center ⓘ |
| residence | Houston, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceNumberOfSpaceFlights | 4 ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-115
NERFINISHED
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STS-72 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-81 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-97 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleFlown |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Endeavour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleRole |
commander
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pilot ⓘ |
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: Brent W. Jett Jr. Description of subject: Brent W. Jett Jr. is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later held leadership roles within the astronaut corps.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.