Michael E. Lopez-Alegria
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Michael E. López-Alegría is a Spanish-American astronaut and former NASA veteran who has flown multiple Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions and later became a commercial spaceflight commander.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael E. Lopez-Alegria canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11380268 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael E. Lopez-Alegria Context triple: [STS-92, missionSpecialist, Michael E. Lopez-Alegria]
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A.
Joseph M. Acaba
Joseph M. Acaba is a NASA astronaut, former U.S. Marine and educator who has flown multiple space shuttle and International Space Station missions.
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B.
J. David López-Salido
J. David López-Salido is an economist known for his coauthored research in macroeconomics and monetary policy, including work with Jordi Galí.
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C.
Franklin R. Chang-Díaz
Franklin R. Chang-Díaz is a Costa Rican–American physicist, former NASA astronaut, and veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions who is also known for his work on advanced plasma rocket propulsion.
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D.
Rick Martinez
Rick Martinez is a fictional NASA astronaut and pilot in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel "The Martian."
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E.
Gregory E. Chamitoff
Gregory E. Chamitoff is a Canadian-American engineer, former NASA astronaut, and International Space Station long-duration crew member who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
- 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 E. Lopez-Alegria Target entity description: Michael E. López-Alegría is a Spanish-American astronaut and former NASA veteran who has flown multiple Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions and later became a commercial spaceflight commander.
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A.
Joseph M. Acaba
Joseph M. Acaba is a NASA astronaut, former U.S. Marine and educator who has flown multiple space shuttle and International Space Station missions.
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B.
J. David López-Salido
J. David López-Salido is an economist known for his coauthored research in macroeconomics and monetary policy, including work with Jordi Galí.
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C.
Franklin R. Chang-Díaz
Franklin R. Chang-Díaz is a Costa Rican–American physicist, former NASA astronaut, and veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions who is also known for his work on advanced plasma rocket propulsion.
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D.
Rick Martinez
Rick Martinez is a fictional NASA astronaut and pilot in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel "The Martian."
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E.
Gregory E. Chamitoff
Gregory E. Chamitoff is a Canadian-American engineer, former NASA astronaut, and International Space Station long-duration crew member who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerospace executive
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astronaut ⓘ commercial astronaut ⓘ human ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Spain
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Spain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-05-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Naval Postgraduate School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| employer |
Axiom Space
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | López-Alegría NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| ISSExpedition | Expedition 14 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Captain ⓘ |
| name | Michael E. López-Alegría NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a Spanish-American NASA astronaut
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commanding the first all-private astronaut mission to the ISS ⓘ |
| numberOfEVAs | 10 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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commercial spaceflight commander ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| performedEVA | yes ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Madrid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position |
Commander of Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1)
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Commander of Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) ⓘ Commander of ISS Expedition 14 ⓘ |
| recordHeld | most cumulative EVA time by a NASA astronaut (at time of retirement) ⓘ |
| retiredFromNASA | 2012 ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronaut | 1992 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Ax-1
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ax-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Expedition 14 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-113 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-73 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-92 NERFINISHED ⓘ Soyuz TMA-9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleFlight |
STS-113
NERFINISHED
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STS-73 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-92 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStation |
International Space Station
NERFINISHED
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Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| totalEVATime | 67 hours 40 minutes ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | over 257 days ⓘ |
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 E. Lopez-Alegria Description of subject: Michael E. López-Alegría is a Spanish-American astronaut and former NASA veteran who has flown multiple Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions and later became a commercial spaceflight commander.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.