N. Jan Davis
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N. Jan Davis is an American engineer, former NASA astronaut, and veteran of three Space Shuttle missions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| N. Jan Davis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7844434 — 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: N. Jan Davis Context triple: [Spacelab-J, missionSpecialist, N. Jan Davis]
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A.
Dorothy E. Davis
Dorothy E. Davis was the lead student plaintiff in the Virginia school desegregation case Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, one of the five cases consolidated into the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education.
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B.
Lyn Davis
Lyn Davis is best known as the wife of influential American television writer and producer Norman Lear.
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C.
Georgia Davis
Georgia Davis was the second wife of American comedian and actor Red Skelton, with whom she shared both personal and professional aspects of his entertainment career.
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D.
Carol Davis
Carol Davis is the mother of Mark Davis, the principal owner and managing general partner of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders.
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E.
Nancy Dickson
Nancy Dickson is known as the wife of American attorney and statesman James Baker, who served in several high-level U.S. government positions.
- 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: N. Jan Davis Target entity description: N. Jan Davis is an American engineer, former NASA astronaut, and veteran of three Space Shuttle missions.
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A.
Dorothy E. Davis
Dorothy E. Davis was the lead student plaintiff in the Virginia school desegregation case Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, one of the five cases consolidated into the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education.
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B.
Lyn Davis
Lyn Davis is best known as the wife of influential American television writer and producer Norman Lear.
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C.
Georgia Davis
Georgia Davis was the second wife of American comedian and actor Red Skelton, with whom she shared both personal and professional aspects of his entertainment career.
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D.
Carol Davis
Carol Davis is the mother of Mark Davis, the principal owner and managing general partner of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders.
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E.
Nancy Dickson
Nancy Dickson is known as the wife of American attorney and statesman James Baker, who served in several high-level U.S. government positions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American engineer
ⓘ
NASA astronaut ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
NASA Exceptional Service Medal
NERFINISHED
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NASA Space Flight Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1953-11-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Auburn University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Georgia Institute of Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
aerospace engineering
ⓘ
mechanical engineering ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Bachelor’s degree in applied biology
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Doctorate in mechanical engineering ⓘ Master’s degree in mechanical engineering ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| laterPosition | managerial and engineering roles at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Society of Women Engineers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryStatus | civilian ⓘ |
| missionSTS-47LandingDate | 1992-09-20 ⓘ |
| missionSTS-47LaunchDate | 1992-09-12 ⓘ |
| missionSTS-60LandingDate | 1994-02-11 ⓘ |
| missionSTS-60LaunchDate | 1994-02-03 ⓘ |
| missionSTS-85LandingDate | 1997-08-19 ⓘ |
| missionSTS-85LaunchDate | 1997-08-07 ⓘ |
| NASAAstronautGroup | NASA Astronaut Group 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Flew on STS-47 with her then-husband Mark C. Lee ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first married couples to fly together in space ⓘ |
| notableWork | Contributions to Space Shuttle payload and structures engineering ⓘ |
| numberOfSpaceMissions | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cocoa Beach, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromAstronautCorps | 1999 ⓘ |
| roleInMission | mission specialist ⓘ |
| selectionAsAstronaut | 1987 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-47
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
STS-60 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-85 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleFlownOn |
Space Shuttle Columbia
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Mark C. Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | ~23 days ⓘ |
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: N. Jan Davis Description of subject: N. Jan Davis is an American engineer, former NASA astronaut, and veteran of three Space Shuttle missions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.