Expedition 8
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Expedition 8 was a long-duration International Space Station mission during which a small crew lived and worked in orbit, conducting scientific research and station maintenance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Expedition 8 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7797269 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Expedition 8 Context triple: [Michael Foale, spaceMission, Expedition 8]
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A.
Expedition 15
Expedition 15 was a long-duration International Space Station mission in 2007 that included NASA astronaut Sunita Williams among its crew.
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B.
Expedition 14
Expedition 14 was a long-duration International Space Station mission during which NASA astronaut Sunita Williams began her first spaceflight and set early records for spacewalking by a woman.
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C.
Expedition 51
Expedition 51 was a long-duration International Space Station mission during which a multinational crew conducted scientific research, maintenance, and technology demonstrations in low Earth orbit.
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D.
Expedition 63
Expedition 63 was a long-duration International Space Station mission in 2020 that oversaw the arrival of SpaceX’s first crewed Dragon flight and continued scientific research in low Earth orbit.
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E.
Expedition 32
Expedition 32 was a long-duration International Space Station mission in 2012 that included NASA astronaut Sunita Williams among its crew.
- 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: Expedition 8 Target entity description: Expedition 8 was a long-duration International Space Station mission during which a small crew lived and worked in orbit, conducting scientific research and station maintenance.
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A.
Expedition 15
Expedition 15 was a long-duration International Space Station mission in 2007 that included NASA astronaut Sunita Williams among its crew.
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B.
Expedition 14
Expedition 14 was a long-duration International Space Station mission during which NASA astronaut Sunita Williams began her first spaceflight and set early records for spacewalking by a woman.
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C.
Expedition 51
Expedition 51 was a long-duration International Space Station mission during which a multinational crew conducted scientific research, maintenance, and technology demonstrations in low Earth orbit.
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D.
Expedition 63
Expedition 63 was a long-duration International Space Station mission in 2020 that oversaw the arrival of SpaceX’s first crewed Dragon flight and continued scientific research in low Earth orbit.
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E.
Expedition 32
Expedition 32 was a long-duration International Space Station mission in 2012 that included NASA astronaut Sunita Williams among its crew.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
International Space Station expedition
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space mission ⓘ |
| affectedBy | Space Shuttle Columbia disaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Michael Foale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCommanderCitizenship |
United Kingdom
NERFINISHED
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United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFlightEngineerCitizenship | Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewCallsign | Vektor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Aleksandr Kaleri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Foale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 2 ⓘ |
| crewTransportSpacecraft | Soyuz TMA-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endDate | 2004-04-29 ⓘ |
| flightEngineer | Aleksandr Kaleri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Expedition 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inclination | 51.6 degrees ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingVehicle | Soyuz TMA-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchCountry | Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSite | Baikonur Cosmodrome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Soyuz TMA-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | about 194 days ⓘ |
| missionPatchFeature |
Earth globe
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ISS depiction ⓘ names of crew members ⓘ |
| missionPatchShape | circular ⓘ |
| missionType | long-duration ISS increment ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first ISS expedition with only two-person crew after Columbia accident ⓘ |
| operatingOrganization | International Space Station program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitingBody | Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitType | Low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| precededBy | Expedition 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryActivities |
scientific research
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station maintenance ⓘ technology demonstrations ⓘ |
| program | International Space Station program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchAreas |
Earth observation
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human physiology ⓘ microgravity science ⓘ technology experiments ⓘ |
| returnTransportSpacecraft | Soyuz TMA-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceAgencyInvolved |
NASA
NERFINISHED
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Roscosmos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStation | International Space Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacewalkLocation | Pirs docking compartment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacewalkMethod | Orlan spacesuit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacewalksConducted | 2 ⓘ |
| startDate | 2003-10-18 ⓘ |
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: Expedition 8 Description of subject: Expedition 8 was a long-duration International Space Station mission during which a small crew lived and worked in orbit, conducting scientific research and station maintenance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.