Charles Frank Bolden Jr.
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Charles Frank Bolden Jr. is a retired U.S. Marine Corps Major General, former NASA astronaut, and former NASA Administrator who flew on four Space Shuttle missions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Frank Bolden Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9808856 — 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: Charles Frank Bolden Jr. Context triple: [Charles F. Bolden Jr., fullName, Charles Frank Bolden Jr.]
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A.
Emanuel Cleaver
Emanuel Cleaver is a longtime Democratic politician and United Methodist pastor who has represented the Kansas City–area 5th District of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2005.
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B.
David du Bose Gaillard
David du Bose Gaillard was a U.S. Army engineer best known for supervising the excavation of the central canal cut through the Continental Divide during the construction of the Panama Canal.
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C.
Marion Barry
Marion Barry was a longtime Washington, D.C. politician and four-term mayor whose career combined major civil rights and urban development achievements with highly publicized scandals.
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D.
Garland Mosley
Garland Mosley is an American songwriter and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with his brother, the acclaimed producer Timbaland.
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E.
Marc H. Morial
Marc H. Morial is an American civil rights leader, lawyer, and former mayor of New Orleans who has served as president and CEO of the National Urban League.
- 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: Charles Frank Bolden Jr. Target entity description: Charles Frank Bolden Jr. is a retired U.S. Marine Corps Major General, former NASA astronaut, and former NASA Administrator who flew on four Space Shuttle missions.
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A.
Emanuel Cleaver
Emanuel Cleaver is a longtime Democratic politician and United Methodist pastor who has represented the Kansas City–area 5th District of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2005.
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B.
David du Bose Gaillard
David du Bose Gaillard was a U.S. Army engineer best known for supervising the excavation of the central canal cut through the Continental Divide during the construction of the Panama Canal.
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C.
Marion Barry
Marion Barry was a longtime Washington, D.C. politician and four-term mayor whose career combined major civil rights and urban development achievements with highly publicized scandals.
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D.
Garland Mosley
Garland Mosley is an American songwriter and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with his brother, the acclaimed producer Timbaland.
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E.
Marc H. Morial
Marc H. Morial is an American civil rights leader, lawyer, and former mayor of New Orleans who has served as president and CEO of the National Urban League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA Administrator
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NASA astronaut ⓘ United States Marine Corps general ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Defense Superior Service Medal
NERFINISHED
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Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
United States Naval Academy
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University of Southern California ⓘ |
| employer |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NERFINISHED
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United States Marine Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Bolden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
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space exploration ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | Major General ⓘ |
| hasHonorificSuffix | USMC (Ret.) ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Major General ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first African American to serve as NASA Administrator on a permanent basis ⓘ |
| notableWork |
advocacy for STEM education and diversity in space programs
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leadership of NASA during Space Shuttle retirement and early Commercial Crew era ⓘ |
| numberOfSpaceMissions | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
administrator
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astronaut ⓘ military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceNumberOfYears | over 30 years in the United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-31
NERFINISHED
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STS-45 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-60 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-61-C NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Charles Frank Bolden Jr. Description of subject: Charles Frank Bolden Jr. is a retired U.S. Marine Corps Major General, former NASA astronaut, and former NASA Administrator who flew on four Space Shuttle missions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.