Carl E. Walz
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Carl E. Walz is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer known for his multiple Space Shuttle flights and long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carl E. Walz canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7815403 — 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: Carl E. Walz Context triple: [International Microgravity Laboratory 2, missionSpecialist, Carl E. Walz]
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A.
Tim Walz
Tim Walz is an American politician and former U.S. Representative who serves as the Democratic governor of Minnesota.
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B.
Michael R. Miller
Michael R. Miller is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the 2006 installment of the Rocky franchise.
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C.
Brian Whitmer
Brian Whitmer is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system.
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D.
Mark Kilmer
Mark Kilmer is the brother of American actor Val Kilmer and a member of the Kilmer family, which has ties to the entertainment industry.
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E.
Jeff Walz
Jeff Walz is a prominent American college basketball coach best known for building the University of Louisville women’s program into a perennial national contender.
- 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: Carl E. Walz Target entity description: Carl E. Walz is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer known for his multiple Space Shuttle flights and long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station.
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A.
Tim Walz
Tim Walz is an American politician and former U.S. Representative who serves as the Democratic governor of Minnesota.
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B.
Michael R. Miller
Michael R. Miller is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the 2006 installment of the Rocky franchise.
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C.
Brian Whitmer
Brian Whitmer is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system.
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D.
Mark Kilmer
Mark Kilmer is the brother of American actor Val Kilmer and a member of the Kilmer family, which has ties to the entertainment industry.
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E.
Jeff Walz
Jeff Walz is a prominent American college basketball coach best known for building the University of Louisville women’s program into a perennial national contender.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Air Force officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
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United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Walz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | human spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | Carl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasExperience |
extravehicular activity
ⓘ
long-duration spaceflight ⓘ microgravity research ⓘ orbital operations ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station
ⓘ
multiple Space Shuttle flights ⓘ |
| notableRole | flight engineer on Expedition 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Expedition 4
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
International Space Station program NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-108 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-51 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-65 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-79 NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordHeld | U.S. long-duration spaceflight record at the time of Expedition 4 ⓘ |
| retiredFrom |
NASA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Expedition 4
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
STS-108 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-51 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-65 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-79 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacewalks | performed multiple spacewalks ⓘ |
| wasOnBoard |
International Space Station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
International Space Station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Johnson Space Center 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: Carl E. Walz Description of subject: Carl E. Walz is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer known for his multiple Space Shuttle flights and long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.