Reinhard Furrer
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Reinhard Furrer was a German physicist and astronaut who flew on NASA’s Space Shuttle mission STS-61-A (D-1), becoming one of West Germany’s first spacefarers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reinhard Furrer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7723045 — 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: Reinhard Furrer Context triple: [D-1, crewMember, Reinhard Furrer]
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A.
Urs Furrer
Urs Furrer was a cinematographer known for his work on the 1973 crime thriller film "The Seven-Ups."
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B.
Bernhard Wicki
Bernhard Wicki was an Austrian-Swiss film director and actor best known for his anti-war films and his co-direction of the World War II epic "The Longest Day."
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C.
Christoph Riggenbach
Christoph Riggenbach was a Swiss architect known for designing the Kunstmuseum Basel, one of the oldest public art collections in the world.
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D.
Andreas Maurer
Andreas Maurer was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Alpine peak Mont Maudit in the Mont Blanc massif.
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E.
Urs Bühler
Urs Bühler is a Swiss tenor best known as a member of the multinational classical crossover vocal group Il Divo.
- 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: Reinhard Furrer Target entity description: Reinhard Furrer was a German physicist and astronaut who flew on NASA’s Space Shuttle mission STS-61-A (D-1), becoming one of West Germany’s first spacefarers.
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A.
Urs Furrer
Urs Furrer was a cinematographer known for his work on the 1973 crime thriller film "The Seven-Ups."
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B.
Bernhard Wicki
Bernhard Wicki was an Austrian-Swiss film director and actor best known for his anti-war films and his co-direction of the World War II epic "The Longest Day."
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C.
Christoph Riggenbach
Christoph Riggenbach was a Swiss architect known for designing the Kunstmuseum Basel, one of the oldest public art collections in the world.
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D.
Andreas Maurer
Andreas Maurer was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Alpine peak Mont Maudit in the Mont Blanc massif.
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E.
Urs Bühler
Urs Bühler is a Swiss tenor best known as a member of the multinational classical crossover vocal group Il Divo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronaut
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human ⓘ physicist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | aircraft accident ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatusDuringFlight | citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
ⓘ
West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1940-11-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1995-09-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
ETH Zurich
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Free University of Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Kiel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Free University of Berlin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
German Aerospace Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Furrer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
physics
ⓘ
space science ⓘ |
| givenName | Reinhard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| memberOf | German Spacelab D-1 team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionRole | payload specialist ⓘ |
| name | Reinhard Alfred Furrer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableWork | microgravity experiments on STS-61-A ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
physicist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| participantIn |
D-1 Spacelab mission
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
STS-61-A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Austria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tyrol NERFINISHED ⓘ Wörgl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Berlin
ⓘ
Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceAgencyAffiliation |
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NASA (as payload specialist) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleFlownOn | Space Shuttle Challenger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | 7 days 00 hours 44 minutes ⓘ |
| wasOneOf | first West German astronauts ⓘ |
| workLocation | Berlin 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: Reinhard Furrer Description of subject: Reinhard Furrer was a German physicist and astronaut who flew on NASA’s Space Shuttle mission STS-61-A (D-1), becoming one of West Germany’s first spacefarers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.