Felix Baumgartner
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Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper best known for his record-breaking 2012 stratospheric freefall from the edge of space.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Baumgartner | 1 |
| Felix Baumgartner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8271205 — 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: Felix Baumgartner Context triple: [Austrian Sportsman of the Year, notableRecipient, Felix Baumgartner]
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A.
Steve Fossett
Steve Fossett was an American adventurer and aviator renowned for setting numerous world records in solo ballooning, sailing, and powered flight.
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B.
Scott E. Parazynski
Scott E. Parazynski is an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and mountaineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later summited Mount Everest.
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C.
Colin Michael Foale
Colin Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut known for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle, Mir, and the International Space Station.
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D.
Christer Fuglesang
Christer Fuglesang is a Swedish physicist and astronaut who became the first Swede in space as a mission specialist with the European Space Agency and NASA.
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E.
Daniel Stiepleman
Daniel Stiepleman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the biographical legal drama film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "On the Basis of Sex."
- 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: Felix Baumgartner Target entity description: Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper best known for his record-breaking 2012 stratospheric freefall from the edge of space.
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A.
Steve Fossett
Steve Fossett was an American adventurer and aviator renowned for setting numerous world records in solo ballooning, sailing, and powered flight.
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B.
Scott E. Parazynski
Scott E. Parazynski is an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and mountaineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later summited Mount Everest.
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C.
Colin Michael Foale
Colin Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut known for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle, Mir, and the International Space Station.
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D.
Christer Fuglesang
Christer Fuglesang is a Swedish physicist and astronaut who became the first Swede in space as a mission specialist with the European Space Agency and NASA.
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E.
Daniel Stiepleman
Daniel Stiepleman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the biographical legal drama film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "On the Basis of Sex."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
BASE jumper
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human ⓘ skydiver ⓘ stunt performer ⓘ |
| brokeRecord |
highest altitude freefall
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highest manned balloon flight at the time ⓘ maximum vertical speed in freefall ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Austria ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1969-04-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 2012-10-14 ⓘ |
| employer | Red Bull NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Baumgartner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics-related stunts
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extreme sports ⓘ |
| freefallAltitude |
approximately 128,000 feet
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approximately 39,000 metres ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Felix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFacebookPage | Felix Baumgartner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInstagramAccount | felixbaumgartner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResidence | Austria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.felixbaumgartner.com/ ⓘ |
| knownFor |
high-altitude jumps
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precision parachute landings ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | German ⓘ |
| mission | Red Bull Stratos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Felix Baumgartner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Austrian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
2012 stratospheric freefall
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Red Bull Stratos jump NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
BASE jumper
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daredevil ⓘ parachutist ⓘ skydiver ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
BASE jumping from bridges
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BASE jumping from cliffs ⓘ BASE jumping from skyscrapers ⓘ |
| performed |
first human to break sound barrier in freefall
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highest skydive at the time ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Salzburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfEvent | near Roswell, New Mexico ⓘ |
| reachedSpeed |
approximately Mach 1.24
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faster than the speed of sound ⓘ over 1,300 km/h ⓘ |
| sponsor | Red Bull NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| used | helium balloon ⓘ |
| wore | pressure suit ⓘ |
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: Felix Baumgartner Description of subject: Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper best known for his record-breaking 2012 stratospheric freefall from the edge of space.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Baumgartner