STS-73
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STS-73 was a 1995 Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity research in the United States Microgravity Laboratory-2 (USML-2).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-73 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7722572 — 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: STS-73 Context triple: [OV-102, notableMission, STS-73]
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A.
STS-71
STS-71 was a 1995 NASA Space Shuttle mission that marked the first docking of a Space Shuttle with the Russian space station Mir, advancing U.S.–Russian space cooperation.
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B.
STS-79
STS-79 was a 1996 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering supplies to the Russian Mir space station and returning astronaut Shannon Lucid to Earth after her long-duration stay in orbit.
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C.
STS-76
STS-76 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering astronaut Shannon Lucid to the Russian Mir space station for a long-duration stay.
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D.
STS-37
STS-37 was a 1991 NASA Space Shuttle mission that deployed the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and conducted various scientific experiments in low Earth orbit.
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E.
STS-74
STS-74 was a 1995 NASA Space Shuttle mission that carried Atlantis to the Russian Mir space station to deliver supplies and a docking module as part of early Shuttle–Mir cooperation.
- 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: STS-73 Target entity description: STS-73 was a 1995 Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity research in the United States Microgravity Laboratory-2 (USML-2).
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A.
STS-71
STS-71 was a 1995 NASA Space Shuttle mission that marked the first docking of a Space Shuttle with the Russian space station Mir, advancing U.S.–Russian space cooperation.
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B.
STS-79
STS-79 was a 1996 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering supplies to the Russian Mir space station and returning astronaut Shannon Lucid to Earth after her long-duration stay in orbit.
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C.
STS-76
STS-76 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering astronaut Shannon Lucid to the Russian Mir space station for a long-duration stay.
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D.
STS-37
STS-37 was a 1991 NASA Space Shuttle mission that deployed the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and conducted various scientific experiments in low Earth orbit.
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E.
STS-74
STS-74 was a 1995 NASA Space Shuttle mission that carried Atlantis to the Russian Mir space station to deliver supplies and a docking module as part of early Shuttle–Mir cooperation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA spaceflight
ⓘ
Space Shuttle mission ⓘ |
| acronym | USML-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Kenneth D. Bowersox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewSize | 7 ⓘ |
| focus | microgravity science experiments ⓘ |
| followedBy | STS-74 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laboratory | United States Microgravity Laboratory-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laboratoryModule | Spacelab module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1995-11-05 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1995-10-20 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 15 days 21 hours 52 minutes ⓘ |
| missionDurationDays | 15.91 ⓘ |
| missionName | STS-73 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionObjective | conduct microgravity experiments in USML-2 ⓘ |
| missionPatch | STS-73 mission patch ⓘ |
| missionSpecialist |
Catherine G. Coleman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
K. David Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael E. Lopez-Alegria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionType | microgravity research ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitApogeeKilometers | 304 ⓘ |
| orbiter | Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitInclinationDegrees | 39.0 ⓘ |
| orbitPerigeeKilometers | 296 ⓘ |
| orbitPeriodMinutes | 90.5 ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 256 ⓘ |
| payloadCommander | Kathryn C. Thornton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| payloadSpecialist |
Albert Sacco Jr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fred W. Leslie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pilot | Kent V. Rominger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | STS-69 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryPayload | United States Microgravity Laboratory-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| program |
NASA Space Shuttle program
ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
|
| researchDiscipline |
biotechnology
ⓘ
combustion science ⓘ commercial microgravity research ⓘ fluid physics ⓘ materials science ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftSerialNumber | OV-102 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttle | Columbia (OV-102) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedModule | Spacelab long module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| USMLSeries | second USML mission ⓘ |
| yearOfSpaceflight | 1995 ⓘ |
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: STS-73 Description of subject: STS-73 was a 1995 Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity research in the United States Microgravity Laboratory-2 (USML-2).
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.