Ken Mattingly
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NASA astronaut
United States Navy officer
aerospace engineer
human
naval officer
rear admiral
test pilot
Ken Mattingly was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral best known for his roles in the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, including serving as command module pilot on Apollo 16.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ken Mattingly canonical | 7 |
| Thomas K. Mattingly II | 2 |
| Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II | 2 |
| Thomas K. Mattingly II – Apollo 16 (CMP), Apollo 13 backup crew | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T577747 — 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: Ken Mattingly Context triple: [Apollo 13, portraysCharacter, Ken Mattingly]
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A.
Jack Swigert
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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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.
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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D.
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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E.
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-41-B and was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- 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: Ken Mattingly Target entity description: Ken Mattingly was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral best known for his roles in the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, including serving as command module pilot on Apollo 16.
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A.
Jack Swigert
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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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.
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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D.
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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E.
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-41-B and was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
United States Navy officer ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ naval officer ⓘ rear admiral ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| academicDegree | Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Legion of Merit
ⓘ
NASA Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ NASA Exceptional Service Medal ⓘ Distinguished Flying Cross ⓘ
surface form:
Navy Distinguished Flying Cross
Navy Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-03-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Auburn University ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ |
| familyName | Mattingly ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
ⓘ
space exploration ⓘ |
| fullName |
Ken Mattingly
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II
|
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | rear admiral ⓘ |
| nickname | Ken Mattingly self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being removed from the Apollo 13 prime crew due to exposure to rubella
ⓘ
flying on early Space Shuttle missions ⓘ serving as command module pilot on Apollo 16 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
naval officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Apollo program
ⓘ
NASA Space Shuttle program ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
|
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
command module pilot of Apollo 16
ⓘ
spacecraft commander of STS-4 ⓘ spacecraft commander of STS-51-C ⓘ |
| residence |
Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Texas, United States
|
| selectedAsAstronautBy | NASA Astronaut Group 5 ⓘ |
| servedOn |
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt
ⓘ
USS Saratoga ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Apollo 13
ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo 13 (support crew / backup crew role)
Apollo 16 ⓘ STS-4 ⓘ STS-51-C ⓘ |
| spacewalks | 1 ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth Mattingly ⓘ |
| totalEVA_Time | 1 hour 23 minutes (approximate) ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | 21 days 04 hours 34 minutes (approximate) ⓘ |
| yearOfAstronautSelection | 1966 ⓘ |
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: Ken Mattingly Description of subject: Ken Mattingly was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral best known for his roles in the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, including serving as command module pilot on Apollo 16.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Thomas K. Mattingly II
this entity surface form:
Thomas K. Mattingly II
this entity surface form:
Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II
subject surface form:
STS-51-C
subject surface form:
STS-51-C
this entity surface form:
Thomas K. Mattingly II – Apollo 16 (CMP), Apollo 13 backup crew
subject surface form:
Thomas Mattingly
this entity surface form:
Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II
subject surface form:
Thomas Mattingly