Jose M. Hernandez
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NASA astronaut
aerospace engineer
author
businessperson
engineer
human
public speaker
space traveler
Jose M. Hernandez is a Mexican-American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle mission STS-128 and is known for his inspiring journey from migrant farmworker to space traveler.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jose M. Hernandez canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10670767 — 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: Jose M. Hernandez Context triple: [STS-127, backupCrewMember, Jose M. Hernandez]
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A.
Victor Hernández Cruz
Victor Hernández Cruz is a Puerto Rican poet known for his innovative, jazz-influenced verse and his role as a prominent voice in contemporary Latino literature.
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B.
Luis Hernández
Luis Hernández is a retired Mexican striker renowned for his prolific goal-scoring for the Mexico national team and clubs in Mexico and abroad, including a notable stint in Major League Soccer.
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C.
Hector Ruiz
Hector Ruiz is a Mexican-American engineer and business executive best known for serving as CEO and chairman of semiconductor company AMD, where he led major strategic initiatives including the acquisition of ATI.
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D.
Francisco Verdugo
Francisco Verdugo was a Spanish military commander and governor in the Low Countries during the Eighty Years' War.
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E.
Enrique Bermúdez
Enrique Bermúdez was a Nicaraguan military officer best known as the top commander of the U.S.-backed Contra rebel forces opposing the Sandinista government in the 1980s.
- 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: Jose M. Hernandez Target entity description: Jose M. Hernandez is a Mexican-American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle mission STS-128 and is known for his inspiring journey from migrant farmworker to space traveler.
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A.
Victor Hernández Cruz
Victor Hernández Cruz is a Puerto Rican poet known for his innovative, jazz-influenced verse and his role as a prominent voice in contemporary Latino literature.
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B.
Luis Hernández
Luis Hernández is a retired Mexican striker renowned for his prolific goal-scoring for the Mexico national team and clubs in Mexico and abroad, including a notable stint in Major League Soccer.
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C.
Hector Ruiz
Hector Ruiz is a Mexican-American engineer and business executive best known for serving as CEO and chairman of semiconductor company AMD, where he led major strategic initiatives including the acquisition of ATI.
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D.
Francisco Verdugo
Francisco Verdugo was a Spanish military commander and governor in the Low Countries during the Eighty Years' War.
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E.
Enrique Bermúdez
Enrique Bermúdez was a Nicaraguan military officer best known as the top commander of the U.S.-backed Contra rebel forces opposing the Sandinista government in the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
aerospace engineer ⓘ author ⓘ businessperson ⓘ engineer ⓘ human ⓘ public speaker ⓘ space traveler ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Santa Barbara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of the Pacific NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
NERFINISHED
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NASA ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mexican American ⓘ |
| familyName | Hernandez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
ⓘ
electrical engineering ⓘ space exploration ⓘ |
| givenName | Jose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInspired | Latino and migrant communities pursuing STEM careers ⓘ |
| hasOccupationHistory | migrant farmworker ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | International Space Station resupply and crew rotation mission STS-128 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.astronautjose.com/ ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jose M. Hernandez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a former migrant farmworker who became a NASA astronaut
ⓘ
flying on Space Shuttle mission STS-128 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
From Farmworker to Astronaut (children’s book adaptation titles vary by edition)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut NERFINISHED ⓘ The Boy Who Touched the Stars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
author ⓘ engineer ⓘ public speaker ⓘ |
| operatorOfSpacecraft | Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participantIn | STS-128 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
mission specialist ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialMediaPresence |
Facebook
NERFINISHED
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Instagram NERFINISHED ⓘ Twitter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceMission | STS-128 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | biographical film "A Million Miles Away" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jose M. Hernandez Description of subject: Jose M. Hernandez is a Mexican-American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle mission STS-128 and is known for his inspiring journey from migrant farmworker to space traveler.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.