Mir EO-23
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Mir EO-23 was a long-duration expedition to the Russian Mir space station in the late 1990s that included NASA astronaut Michael Foale as part of the crew.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mir EO-23 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7797271 — 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: Mir EO-23 Context triple: [Michael Foale, spaceMission, Mir EO-23]
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Mir EO-20
Mir EO-20 was a long-duration crewed expedition to the Russian Mir space station that took place just before the Mir EO-21 mission.
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Mir EO-21
Mir EO-21 was a long-duration 1996 expedition to the Russian Mir space station that included NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid as a research cosmonaut.
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Mir EO-22
Mir EO-22 was a long-duration crewed expedition to the Russian Mir space station, continuing its scientific research and operations in low Earth orbit.
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D.
Mio
Mio is the Japanese-led Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, a component of the joint ESA–JAXA BepiColombo mission designed to study Mercury’s magnetic field and space environment.
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E.
Mengo
Mengo is a historic hill and neighborhood in Kampala, Uganda, that served as the traditional political and cultural center of the Kingdom of Buganda.
- 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: Mir EO-23 Target entity description: Mir EO-23 was a long-duration expedition to the Russian Mir space station in the late 1990s that included NASA astronaut Michael Foale as part of the crew.
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A.
Mir EO-20
Mir EO-20 was a long-duration crewed expedition to the Russian Mir space station that took place just before the Mir EO-21 mission.
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B.
Mir EO-21
Mir EO-21 was a long-duration 1996 expedition to the Russian Mir space station that included NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid as a research cosmonaut.
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C.
Mir EO-22
Mir EO-22 was a long-duration crewed expedition to the Russian Mir space station, continuing its scientific research and operations in low Earth orbit.
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D.
Mio
Mio is the Japanese-led Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, a component of the joint ESA–JAXA BepiColombo mission designed to study Mercury’s magnetic field and space environment.
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E.
Mengo
Mengo is a historic hill and neighborhood in Kampala, Uganda, that served as the traditional political and cultural center of the Kingdom of Buganda.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mir expedition
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long-duration spaceflight mission ⓘ |
| associatedProgram | NASA–Mir Phase 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Vasily Tsibliyev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Aleksandr Lazutkin
NERFINISHED
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Michael Foale NERFINISHED ⓘ Vasily Tsibliyev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| damagedModule | Spektr module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| duration | about 185 days ⓘ |
| emergencyResponse |
cables rerouted to restore power
ⓘ
crew sealed off Spektr module ⓘ |
| endDate | 1997-08-14 ⓘ |
| evaCrewMember |
Aleksandr Lazutkin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Foale NERFINISHED ⓘ Vasily Tsibliyev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| evaPerformed | Yes ⓘ |
| evaPurpose | inspect damage from Progress collision ⓘ |
| flightEngineer | Aleksandr Lazutkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Mir EO-24 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incident | Progress M-34 collision with Mir ⓘ |
| incidentDate | 1997-06-25 ⓘ |
| inclination | about 51.6 degrees ⓘ |
| internationalCooperation | Shuttle–Mir Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1997-08-14 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1997-02-10 ⓘ |
| launchPad | Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 1/5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSite | Baikonur Cosmodrome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Soyuz-U NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionType | space station expedition ⓘ |
| nasaParticipation | Yes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation of NASA astronaut Michael Foale
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serious in-orbit collision and emergency recovery ⓘ |
| objective |
long-duration habitation of Mir
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scientific research in microgravity ⓘ technology demonstration for future spaceflight ⓘ |
| operator |
RKA
NERFINISHED
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Roscosmos NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian Space Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Mir EO-22 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| program | Mir program ⓘ |
| resultOfIncident |
depressurization of Spektr module
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power loss on Mir ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Soyuz TM-25 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStation | Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStationOrbit | Low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| startDate | 1997-02-10 ⓘ |
| visitingAstronaut | Michael Foale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mir EO-23 Description of subject: Mir EO-23 was a long-duration expedition to the Russian Mir space station in the late 1990s that included NASA astronaut Michael Foale as part of the crew.
Referenced by (1)
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