Expedition 6
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Expedition 6 was a long-duration International Space Station mission in the early 2000s that conducted scientific research and station maintenance with a three-person crew.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Expedition 6 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7887393 — 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: Expedition 6 Context triple: [Kenneth D. Bowersox, spaceMission, Expedition 6]
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A.
Expedition 8
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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B.
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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C.
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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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 64
Expedition 64 was a long-duration mission to the International Space Station that featured an expanded crew complement and included NASA’s first operational Commercial Crew flight.
- 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 6 Target entity description: Expedition 6 was a long-duration International Space Station mission in the early 2000s that conducted scientific research and station maintenance with a three-person crew.
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A.
Expedition 8
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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B.
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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C.
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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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 64
Expedition 64 was a long-duration mission to the International Space Station that featured an expanded crew complement and included NASA’s first operational Commercial Crew flight.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
International Space Station expedition
ⓘ
long-duration spaceflight mission ⓘ |
| affectedBy | Space Shuttle Columbia disaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Kenneth D. Bowersox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
Russia
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewMember |
Donald R. Pettit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kenneth D. Bowersox NERFINISHED ⓘ Nikolai Budarin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| endDate | 2003-05-03 ⓘ |
| flightEngineer |
Donald R. Pettit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nikolai Budarin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Expedition 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2002-11-23 ⓘ |
| launchMission | STS-113 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Space Shuttle Endeavour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | ~161 days ⓘ |
| missionType |
research
ⓘ
space station maintenance ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first ISS expedition to return to Earth on a Soyuz after the Columbia accident ⓘ |
| numberOfEVAs | 2 ⓘ |
| operator |
NASA
ⓘ
Roscosmos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbit | Low Earth orbit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | ISS long-duration expedition sequence ⓘ |
| precededBy | Expedition 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ |
| program | International Space Station program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchArea |
Earth observation
ⓘ
life sciences ⓘ microgravity science ⓘ technology demonstration ⓘ |
| returnDate | 2003-05-03 ⓘ |
| returnSite | Kazakh Steppe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| returnVehicle | Soyuz TMA-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceAgencyOfCommander | NASA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceAgencyOfFlightEngineer |
NASA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roscosmos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftDocked |
Progress resupply spacecraft
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Soyuz TMA-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStation | International Space Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startDate | 2002-11-25 ⓘ |
| totalEVATime | ~13 hours 17 minutes ⓘ |
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 6 Description of subject: Expedition 6 was a long-duration International Space Station mission in the early 2000s that conducted scientific research and station maintenance with a three-person crew.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.