Michael Fincke
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Michael Fincke is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer known for his long-duration stays on the International Space Station and multiple Space Shuttle missions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Fincke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9635444 — 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: Michael Fincke Context triple: [STS-134, missionSpecialist, Michael Fincke]
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A.
Valerie Jane Eustace
Valerie Jane Eustace was the longtime wife of British novelist John le Carré and the mother of his children, who largely remained out of the public eye despite his fame.
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B.
Julanne Johnston
Julanne Johnston was an American silent film actress best known for her role opposite Douglas Fairbanks in the classic 1924 fantasy film "The Thief of Bagdad."
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C.
Julie Payette
Julie Payette is a Canadian engineer, former astronaut, and public servant who served as the 29th Governor General of Canada.
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D.
Ashley Lukashevsky
Ashley Lukashevsky is an illustrator and visual artist known for bold, socially engaged artwork that centers themes of racial justice, feminism, and immigrant rights.
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E.
Lisa Ann Walter
Lisa Ann Walter is an American actress and comedian best known for her roles in films like "The Parent Trap" (1998) and the TV series "Abbott Elementary."
- 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: Michael Fincke Target entity description: Michael Fincke is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer known for his long-duration stays on the International Space Station and multiple Space Shuttle missions.
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A.
Valerie Jane Eustace
Valerie Jane Eustace was the longtime wife of British novelist John le Carré and the mother of his children, who largely remained out of the public eye despite his fame.
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B.
Julanne Johnston
Julanne Johnston was an American silent film actress best known for her role opposite Douglas Fairbanks in the classic 1924 fantasy film "The Thief of Bagdad."
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C.
Julie Payette
Julie Payette is a Canadian engineer, former astronaut, and public servant who served as the 29th Governor General of Canada.
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D.
Ashley Lukashevsky
Ashley Lukashevsky is an illustrator and visual artist known for bold, socially engaged artwork that centers themes of racial justice, feminism, and immigrant rights.
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E.
Lisa Ann Walter
Lisa Ann Walter is an American actress and comedian best known for her roles in films like "The Parent Trap" (1998) and the TV series "Abbott Elementary."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1967-03-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Stanford University ⓘ United States Air Force Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Air Force Test Pilot School NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Houston–Clear Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
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United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Fincke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
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human spaceflight ⓘ |
| fullName | Edward Michael Fincke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics ⓘ Master of Science in Planetary Geology ⓘ Master of Science in Space Systems ⓘ |
| hasChild | three children ⓘ |
| hasFlownOn |
Soyuz spacecraft
NERFINISHED
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Space Shuttle Endeavour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFlownTo | International Space Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken |
English
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Japanese ⓘ Russian ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | one of the American astronauts with the longest cumulative time in space of his era ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Space Shuttle missions
NERFINISHED
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long-duration missions on the International Space Station ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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engineer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Expedition 18
NERFINISHED
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Expedition 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ International Space Station program NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-126 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-134 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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surface form:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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| residence | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spouse | Renita Saikia Fincke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Michael Fincke Description of subject: Michael Fincke is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer known for his long-duration stays on the International Space Station and multiple Space Shuttle missions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.