Discovery flight 17
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Discovery flight 17 is the seventeenth Space Shuttle Discovery mission, corresponding to NASA's STS-51 flight.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Discovery flight 17 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22931576 — 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: Discovery flight 17 Context triple: [STS-51, vehicleFlightNumber, Discovery flight 17]
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A.
Flight 17P
Flight 17P was a historic SpaceShipOne mission that contributed to winning the Ansari X Prize by demonstrating successful private suborbital spaceflight.
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B.
Discovery flight 27
Discovery flight 27 is the Space Shuttle Discovery mission designated STS-103, a 1999 NASA flight primarily tasked with servicing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope.
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C.
Flight 16P
Flight 16P was the historic SpaceShipOne mission that achieved the first privately funded human spaceflight into suborbital space.
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D.
Flight 426
Flight 426 is the El Al commercial airliner that was hijacked in 1968 in one of the early notable incidents of modern aviation hijacking.
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E.
Flight 15P
Flight 15P was the historic 2004 suborbital test flight of SpaceShipOne that became the first privately funded human spaceflight.
- 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: Discovery flight 17 Target entity description: Discovery flight 17 is the seventeenth Space Shuttle Discovery mission, corresponding to NASA's STS-51 flight.
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A.
Flight 17P
Flight 17P was a historic SpaceShipOne mission that contributed to winning the Ansari X Prize by demonstrating successful private suborbital spaceflight.
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B.
Discovery flight 27
Discovery flight 27 is the Space Shuttle Discovery mission designated STS-103, a 1999 NASA flight primarily tasked with servicing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope.
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C.
Flight 16P
Flight 16P was the historic SpaceShipOne mission that achieved the first privately funded human spaceflight into suborbital space.
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D.
Flight 426
Flight 426 is the El Al commercial airliner that was hijacked in 1968 in one of the early notable incidents of modern aviation hijacking.
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E.
Flight 15P
Flight 15P was the historic 2004 suborbital test flight of SpaceShipOne that became the first privately funded human spaceflight.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.