Richard H. Truly
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Richard H. Truly is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral who later served as the eighth Administrator of NASA.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard H. Truly canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7743687 — 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: Richard H. Truly Context triple: [STS-2, pilot, Richard H. Truly]
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Peter H. Raven
Peter H. Raven is an influential American botanist and environmentalist renowned for his work in plant systematics, biodiversity conservation, and leadership of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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B.
Eric R. Pianka
Eric R. Pianka is an American evolutionary ecologist and herpetologist renowned for his influential work on lizard ecology, biodiversity, and theoretical ecology.
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C.
Daniel J. Chure
Daniel J. Chure is an American paleontologist known for his research on large Jurassic theropod dinosaurs and his long-time work at Dinosaur National Monument.
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D.
Edward J. Sparling
Edward J. Sparling was an American educator and university administrator best known as the founding president of Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he championed social justice and inclusive admissions policies.
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E.
Richard Huelsenbeck
Richard Huelsenbeck was a German poet, writer, and psychoanalyst who was a leading founding member and theorist of the Dada movement in Zurich and Berlin.
- 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: Richard H. Truly Target entity description: Richard H. Truly is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral who later served as the eighth Administrator of NASA.
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A.
Peter H. Raven
Peter H. Raven is an influential American botanist and environmentalist renowned for his work in plant systematics, biodiversity conservation, and leadership of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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B.
Eric R. Pianka
Eric R. Pianka is an American evolutionary ecologist and herpetologist renowned for his influential work on lizard ecology, biodiversity, and theoretical ecology.
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C.
Daniel J. Chure
Daniel J. Chure is an American paleontologist known for his research on large Jurassic theropod dinosaurs and his long-time work at Dinosaur National Monument.
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D.
Edward J. Sparling
Edward J. Sparling was an American educator and university administrator best known as the founding president of Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he championed social justice and inclusive admissions policies.
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E.
Richard Huelsenbeck
Richard Huelsenbeck was a German poet, writer, and psychoanalyst who was a leading founding member and theorist of the Dada movement in Zurich and Berlin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA Administrator
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NASA astronaut ⓘ United States Navy officer ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ rear admiral ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
George H. W. Bush
NERFINISHED
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Ronald Reagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Defense Distinguished Service Medal
NERFINISHED
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Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Georgia Institute of Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Truly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace
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space exploration ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | rear admiral ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | post-Challenger Space Shuttle return-to-flight leadership ⓘ |
| notableWork | Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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engineer ⓘ naval officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| officeNumber | 8th Administrator of NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Administrator of NASA
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Associate Administrator for Space Flight NERFINISHED ⓘ astronaut ⓘ |
| precededBy | James C. Fletcher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | United States Navy officer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Approach and Landing Tests of Space Shuttle Enterprise
NERFINISHED
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STS-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Daniel S. Goldin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasAboard |
Space Shuttle Challenger
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Enterprise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Houston, Texas
NERFINISHED
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Kennedy Space Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Richard H. Truly Description of subject: Richard H. Truly is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral who later served as the eighth Administrator of NASA.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.