Bernard A. Harris Jr.
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Bernard A. Harris Jr. is an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and the first African American to perform a spacewalk.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bernard A. Harris Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7727804 — 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: Bernard A. Harris Jr. Context triple: [D-2, missionSpecialist, Bernard A. Harris Jr.]
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A.
Guion Bluford
Guion Bluford is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and former NASA astronaut best known as the first African American to travel into space.
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B.
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-41-B and was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
Hank Worden
Hank Worden was an American character actor best known for his frequent appearances in Western films, particularly in collaborations with director John Ford and star John Wayne.
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D.
Charles F. Bolden Jr.
Charles F. Bolden Jr. is a former NASA astronaut, retired U.S. Marine Corps major general, and former NASA Administrator who flew on four Space Shuttle missions.
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E.
F. Story Musgrave
F. Story Musgrave is a former NASA astronaut, physician, and engineer renowned for his extensive spaceflight career and key role in repairing the Hubble Space Telescope.
- 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: Bernard A. Harris Jr. Target entity description: Bernard A. Harris Jr. is an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and the first African American to perform a spacewalk.
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A.
Guion Bluford
Guion Bluford is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and former NASA astronaut best known as the first African American to travel into space.
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B.
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-41-B and was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
Hank Worden
Hank Worden was an American character actor best known for his frequent appearances in Western films, particularly in collaborations with director John Ford and star John Wayne.
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D.
Charles F. Bolden Jr.
Charles F. Bolden Jr. is a former NASA astronaut, retired U.S. Marine Corps major general, and former NASA Administrator who flew on four Space Shuttle missions.
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E.
F. Story Musgrave
F. Story Musgrave is a former NASA astronaut, physician, and engineer renowned for his extensive spaceflight career and key role in repairing the Hubble Space Telescope.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African-American scientist
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NASA astronaut ⓘ human ⓘ physician ⓘ spacewalker ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Texas Medical Branch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Baylor College of Medicine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NASA ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
medicine
ⓘ
space exploration ⓘ |
| founded | The Harris Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Bernard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Biology
ⓘ
Doctor of Medicine ⓘ Master of Medical Science ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
NASA Exceptional Service Medal
NERFINISHED
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NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfSpaceMission |
STS-55
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
STS-63 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Bernard A. Harris Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first African American to perform a spacewalk
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participation in first rendezvous of Space Shuttle with Mir without docking on STS-63 ⓘ |
| notableFor | promoting STEM education for underrepresented youth ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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businessman ⓘ educator ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
clinical scientist
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flight surgeon ⓘ mission specialist ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacewalkMission | STS-63 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacewalkPerformedOn | February 9, 1995 ⓘ |
| specialty |
aerospace medicine
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internal medicine ⓘ |
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: Bernard A. Harris Jr. Description of subject: Bernard A. Harris Jr. is an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and the first African American to perform a spacewalk.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.