STS-56
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STS-56 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission focused on studying Earth's atmosphere and solar interactions using the ATLAS-2 payload.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-56 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7727840 — 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-56 Context triple: [Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science 2, spaceShuttleMissionDesignation, STS-56]
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A.
STS-66
STS-66 was a 1994 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission focused on studying Earth's atmosphere and climate using the ATLAS-3 payload and related experiments.
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B.
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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C.
STS-51-F
STS-51-F was a 1985 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission notable for its Spacelab 2 scientific payload and an in-flight main engine shutdown that led to the first use of an Abort to Orbit procedure.
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D.
STS-51-J
STS-51-J was a classified 1985 U.S. Space Shuttle mission for the Department of Defense that marked the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis.
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E.
STS-51-L
STS-51-L was the ill-fated 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger mission that ended in disaster shortly after launch, resulting in the loss of all seven crew members.
- 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-56 Target entity description: STS-56 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission focused on studying Earth's atmosphere and solar interactions using the ATLAS-2 payload.
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A.
STS-66
STS-66 was a 1994 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission focused on studying Earth's atmosphere and climate using the ATLAS-3 payload and related experiments.
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B.
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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C.
STS-51-F
STS-51-F was a 1985 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission notable for its Spacelab 2 scientific payload and an in-flight main engine shutdown that led to the first use of an Abort to Orbit procedure.
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D.
STS-51-J
STS-51-J was a classified 1985 U.S. Space Shuttle mission for the Department of Defense that marked the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis.
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E.
STS-51-L
STS-51-L was the ill-fated 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger mission that ended in disaster shortly after launch, resulting in the loss of all seven crew members.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA spaceflight
ⓘ
Space Shuttle mission ⓘ |
| commander | Kenneth D. Cameron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewMember |
Ellen Ochoa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kenneth D. Cameron NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenneth D. Cockrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Foale NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen S. Oswald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 5 ⓘ |
| EVAPerformed | no ⓘ |
| followedBy | STS-57 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| freeFlyerDeployed | SPARTAN-201 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| freeFlyerOperation | solar wind and corona observations ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1993-04-17 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1993-04-08 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 9 days 6 hours 8 minutes ⓘ |
| missionNumber | 56 ⓘ |
| missionPatch | STS-56 mission insignia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionSpecialist |
Ellen Ochoa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kenneth D. Cockrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Foale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFirst | first flight of Ellen Ochoa ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitApogee | 306 km ⓘ |
| orbitInclination | 57.0 degrees ⓘ |
| orbitPerigee | 296 km ⓘ |
| orbitPeriod | 90.3 minutes ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 148 ⓘ |
| payload |
Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SPARTAN-201 free-flyer NERFINISHED ⓘ SSBUV-7 (Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet experiment) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tethered Satellite System support equipment ⓘ |
| pilot | Stephen S. Oswald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | STS-55 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryPayload | ATLAS-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| program |
NASA Space Shuttle program
ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
|
| scienceFocus |
Earth's atmosphere
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
middle atmosphere chemistry ⓘ ozone layer studies ⓘ solar radiation measurements ⓘ solar-terrestrial interactions ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftSerialNumber | OV-103 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleProgramMissionNumber | 54 ⓘ |
| yearOfSpaceflight | 1993 ⓘ |
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-56 Description of subject: STS-56 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission focused on studying Earth's atmosphere and solar interactions using the ATLAS-2 payload.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.