JSC
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JSC is NASA’s primary human spaceflight center in Houston, Texas, responsible for astronaut training, mission control, and spacecraft development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| JSC canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T716995 — 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: JSC Context triple: [Johnson Space Center, abbreviation, JSC]
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A.
JST
JST is the time zone used throughout Japan, nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9).
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B.
CSC
CSC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Supreme Court of Canada, the country's highest judicial authority.
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C.
Nisshoki
Nisshoki, more commonly known as the Hinomaru, is the national flag of Japan featuring a red sun disc centered on a white field.
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D.
John Company
John Company is a historical nickname for the British East India Company, the powerful trading corporation that played a central role in establishing British rule in India.
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E.
JEC
JEC is a bipartisan U.S. congressional committee that analyzes economic conditions and advises Congress on economic policy.
- 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: JSC Target entity description: JSC is NASA’s primary human spaceflight center in Houston, Texas, responsible for astronaut training, mission control, and spacecraft development.
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A.
JST
JST is the time zone used throughout Japan, nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9).
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B.
CSC
CSC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Supreme Court of Canada, the country's highest judicial authority.
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C.
Nisshoki
Nisshoki, more commonly known as the Hinomaru, is the national flag of Japan featuring a red sun disc centered on a white field.
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D.
John Company
John Company is a historical nickname for the British East India Company, the powerful trading corporation that played a central role in establishing British rule in India.
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E.
JEC
JEC is a bipartisan U.S. congressional committee that analyzes economic conditions and advises Congress on economic policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA center
ⓘ
human spaceflight center ⓘ research and development center ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Johnson Space Center
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
|
| city | Houston ⓘ |
| coordinatesMissionControlFor |
International Space Station operations
ⓘ
crewed NASA missions ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employerOf |
NASA Astronaut Corps
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA astronauts
aerospace engineers ⓘ flight controllers ⓘ spaceflight medical personnel ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
human spaceflight
ⓘ
space exploration ⓘ space operations ⓘ spacecraft systems engineering ⓘ |
| fullName |
Johnson Space Center
ⓘ
surface form:
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
|
| hasFacility |
Johnson Space Center
ⓘ
surface form:
Astronaut Training Facility
Johnson Space Center ⓘ
surface form:
Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center
NASA Mission Control ⓘ
surface form:
Mission Control Center
Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory ⓘ Sonny Carter Training Facility ⓘ Space Vehicle Mockup Facility ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn |
Apollo program mission operations
ⓘ
Artemis program support ⓘ International Space Station program ⓘ NASA Space Shuttle program ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program operations
|
| locatedIn |
Houston
ⓘ
surface form:
Houston, Texas
Texas ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| namedAfter | Lyndon B. Johnson ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| ownedBy | United States government ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA human spaceflight infrastructure ⓘ |
| region | Clear Lake area ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
International Space Station operations support
ⓘ
Orion spacecraft program support ⓘ astronaut training ⓘ extravehicular activity training ⓘ flight control for crewed missions ⓘ human spaceflight operations ⓘ mission control ⓘ mission planning ⓘ spacecraft development ⓘ spaceflight medical operations ⓘ spaceflight simulation and testing ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| type | government facility ⓘ |
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: JSC Description of subject: JSC is NASA’s primary human spaceflight center in Houston, Texas, responsible for astronaut training, mission control, and spacecraft development.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.