Jack Swigert
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Jack Swigert was an American astronaut, test pilot, and politician best known as the command module pilot of NASA’s ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Swigert canonical | 5 |
| John L. Swigert Sr. | 1 |
| John Leonard Swigert Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T577746 — 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: Jack Swigert Context triple: [Apollo 13, portraysCharacter, Jack Swigert]
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A.
Fred Haise
Fred Haise is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the lunar module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
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B.
Francis R. Scobee
Francis R. Scobee was a United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s final mission, STS-51-L.
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C.
Jim Lovell
Jim Lovell is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission and as a co-author of the memoir "Lost Moon," which inspired the film "Apollo 13."
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D.
Michael Collins
Michael Collins was an American astronaut and command module pilot on the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing mission.
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E.
Frank Borman
Frank Borman is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known for commanding the historic Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
- 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: Jack Swigert Target entity description: Jack Swigert was an American astronaut, test pilot, and politician best known as the command module pilot of NASA’s ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission.
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A.
Fred Haise
Fred Haise is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the lunar module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
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B.
Francis R. Scobee
Francis R. Scobee was a United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s final mission, STS-51-L.
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C.
Jim Lovell
Jim Lovell is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission and as a co-author of the memoir "Lost Moon," which inspired the film "Apollo 13."
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D.
Michael Collins
Michael Collins was an American astronaut and command module pilot on the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing mission.
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E.
Frank Borman
Frank Borman is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer best known for commanding the historic Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Jack Swigert Description of subject: Jack Swigert was an American astronaut, test pilot, and politician best known as the command module pilot of NASA’s ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Leonard Swigert Jr.
this entity surface form:
John L. Swigert Sr.
subject surface form:
Mount Olivet Cemetery (Wheat Ridge, Colorado)