STS-2
E175570
STS-2 was NASA’s second Space Shuttle mission, flown by Columbia in November 1981 as part of the early test flights of the reusable orbiter program.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-2 canonical | 10 |
| Space Shuttle mission STS-2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1523524 — 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: STS-2 Context triple: [STS-1, followedBy, STS-2]
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A.
STS-7
STS-7 was a 1983 NASA Space Shuttle mission notable for carrying Sally Ride, who became the first American woman in space during the flight.
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B.
STS-1
STS-1 was the inaugural crewed mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, marking the first orbital test flight of the reusable orbiter Columbia in 1981.
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C.
STS-26
STS-26 was the 1988 NASA Space Shuttle mission that marked the program’s return to flight following the Challenger disaster.
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D.
STS-61
STS-61 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission best known for successfully repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope during a series of complex spacewalks.
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E.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
- 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: STS-2 Target entity description: STS-2 was NASA’s second Space Shuttle mission, flown by Columbia in November 1981 as part of the early test flights of the reusable orbiter program.
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A.
STS-7
STS-7 was a 1983 NASA Space Shuttle mission notable for carrying Sally Ride, who became the first American woman in space during the flight.
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B.
STS-1
STS-1 was the inaugural crewed mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, marking the first orbital test flight of the reusable orbiter Columbia in 1981.
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C.
STS-26
STS-26 was the 1988 NASA Space Shuttle mission that marked the program’s return to flight following the Challenger disaster.
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D.
STS-61
STS-61 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission best known for successfully repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope during a series of complex spacewalks.
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E.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: STS-2 Description of subject: STS-2 was NASA’s second Space Shuttle mission, flown by Columbia in November 1981 as part of the early test flights of the reusable orbiter program.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.