Sharon Christa Corrigan
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Sharon Christa Corrigan, better known as Christa McAuliffe, was an American teacher selected as the first private citizen in space who tragically died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sharon Christa Corrigan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10022337 — 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: Sharon Christa Corrigan Context triple: [Sharon Christa McAuliffe, birthName, Sharon Christa Corrigan]
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A.
Sharon Murphy
Sharon Murphy is best known as the mother of the late American actress Brittany Murphy and for her involvement in the public scrutiny and legal disputes that followed her daughter's death.
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B.
Sharon McLonergan
Sharon McLonergan is a fictional character featured in the musical work "Look to the Rainbow."
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C.
Sharon Cassidy
Sharon Cassidy is a central character in the 1996 ensemble drama film "Beautiful Girls," which explores the romantic and personal struggles of a group of small-town friends.
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D.
Maureen Callahan
Maureen Callahan is an American journalist, author, and pop culture critic known for her work with publications like the New York Post and her commentary on celebrity and cultural trends.
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E.
Sharon Rooney
Sharon Rooney is a Scottish actress known for her breakout role in the TV series "My Mad Fat Diary" and subsequent work in film and television.
- 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: Sharon Christa Corrigan Target entity description: Sharon Christa Corrigan, better known as Christa McAuliffe, was an American teacher selected as the first private citizen in space who tragically died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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A.
Sharon Murphy
Sharon Murphy is best known as the mother of the late American actress Brittany Murphy and for her involvement in the public scrutiny and legal disputes that followed her daughter's death.
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B.
Sharon McLonergan
Sharon McLonergan is a fictional character featured in the musical work "Look to the Rainbow."
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C.
Sharon Cassidy
Sharon Cassidy is a central character in the 1996 ensemble drama film "Beautiful Girls," which explores the romantic and personal struggles of a group of small-town friends.
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D.
Maureen Callahan
Maureen Callahan is an American journalist, author, and pop culture critic known for her work with publications like the New York Post and her commentary on celebrity and cultural trends.
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E.
Sharon Rooney
Sharon Rooney is a Scottish actress known for her breakout role in the TV series "My Mad Fat Diary" and subsequent work in film and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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astronaut ⓘ human ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Christa McAuliffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Congressional Space Medal of Honor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
aeroplane accident ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-09-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-01-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Bowie State College
NERFINISHED
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Framingham State College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Concord High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Corrigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | social studies education ⓘ |
| givenName |
Christa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sharon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Caroline McAuliffe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scott McAuliffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritage | Irish-American ⓘ |
| honorificEponym |
Christa McAuliffe Middle School (various locations)
NERFINISHED
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Christa McAuliffe Planetarium NERFINISHED ⓘ McAuliffe crater on the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center NERFINISHED ⓘ asteroid 3352 McAuliffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Teacher in Space Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first private citizen selected to fly in space
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dying in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ⓘ |
| notableWork | planned space lessons for Teacher in Space Project ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
educator ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| participantIn | Space Shuttle Challenger disaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | crew of STS-51-L ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
|
| placeOfDeath | over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Florida, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Concord, New Hampshire, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectedAs |
first private citizen in space
ⓘ
first teacher in space ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spaceMission | STS-51-L NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttle | Space Shuttle Challenger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Steven J. McAuliffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Concord, New Hampshire, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sharon Christa Corrigan Description of subject: Sharon Christa Corrigan, better known as Christa McAuliffe, was an American teacher selected as the first private citizen in space who tragically died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Referenced by (1)
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