Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility
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The Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility is a NASA center in West Virginia dedicated to ensuring the safety and reliability of the agency’s software and mission-critical systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T747383 — 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: Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility Context triple: [Goddard Space Flight Center, affiliatedWith, Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility]
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A.
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton was an American character actress best known for her iconic portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
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B.
Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
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C.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
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D.
Karen Verne
Karen Verne was a German-born actress who appeared in Hollywood films of the 1940s and was once married to actor Peter Lorre.
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E.
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan is an Indian-American physicist and engineer renowned for his pioneering research in fluid turbulence and contributions to fluid dynamics.
- 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: Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility Target entity description: The Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility is a NASA center in West Virginia dedicated to ensuring the safety and reliability of the agency’s software and mission-critical systems.
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A.
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton was an American character actress best known for her iconic portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
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B.
Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
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C.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
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D.
Karen Verne
Karen Verne was a German-born actress who appeared in Hollywood films of the 1940s and was once married to actor Peter Lorre.
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E.
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan is an Indian-American physicist and engineer renowned for his pioneering research in fluid turbulence and contributions to fluid dynamics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA facility
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research and development center ⓘ verification and validation facility ⓘ |
| affiliation |
NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate
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surface form:
NASA Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Space Operations Mission Directorate
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employs |
aerospace engineers
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computer scientists ⓘ safety and mission assurance specialists ⓘ software engineers ⓘ systems engineers ⓘ |
| field |
safety engineering
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software engineering ⓘ systems engineering ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
autonomous systems software
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flight software ⓘ ground systems software ⓘ mission assurance ⓘ safety-critical systems ⓘ software assurance ⓘ spaceflight software ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
independent assessments
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requirements verification ⓘ risk assessment ⓘ safety analysis ⓘ software analysis ⓘ software assurance research ⓘ software testing ⓘ tools and methods development for IV&V ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryFunction |
ensuring reliability of NASA mission-critical software
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ensuring safety of NASA mission-critical software ⓘ independent verification and validation of NASA software ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
NASA IV&V Facility
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surface form:
NASA IV&V Program
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| locatedIn |
Fairmont, West Virginia
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West Virginia ⓘ |
| mission | improve safety and reliability of NASA missions through independent software verification and validation ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Katherine Johnson ⓘ |
| namedForAffiliation |
Langley Research Center
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surface form:
NASA Langley Research Center
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| namedForOccupation | mathematician ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| ownedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
Goddard Space Flight Center
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surface form:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA IV&V Facility ⓘ
surface form:
NASA IV&V Program
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| providesServiceFor |
NASA Earth science missions
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NASA human spaceflight missions ⓘ NASA planetary missions ⓘ NASA robotic space missions ⓘ |
| sector |
aerospace
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space exploration ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility Description of subject: The Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility is a NASA center in West Virginia dedicated to ensuring the safety and reliability of the agency’s software and mission-critical systems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Goddard Space Flight Center
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affiliatedWith
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Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility
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