STS-41C
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STS-41C was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission notable for successfully repairing the Solar Maximum Mission satellite during the first on-orbit satellite repair operation.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1583765 — 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: STS-41C Context triple: [STS-41B, followedBy, STS-41C]
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STS-41B
STS-41B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission best known for the first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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STS-41-D
STS-41-D was the maiden orbital mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery, launched by NASA in 1984 to deploy communications satellites and conduct scientific experiments.
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STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
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STS-61-C
STS-61-C was a 1986 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission notable for carrying future U.S. Senator and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson as a payload specialist.
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STS-43
STS-43 was a 1991 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission that deployed the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-E (TDRS-E) and conducted a variety of scientific and technological experiments in 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-41C Target entity description: STS-41C was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission notable for successfully repairing the Solar Maximum Mission satellite during the first on-orbit satellite repair operation.
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STS-41B
STS-41B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission best known for the first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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STS-41-D
STS-41-D was the maiden orbital mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery, launched by NASA in 1984 to deploy communications satellites and conduct scientific experiments.
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C.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
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STS-61-C
STS-61-C was a 1986 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission notable for carrying future U.S. Senator and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson as a payload specialist.
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E.
STS-43
STS-43 was a 1991 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission that deployed the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-E (TDRS-E) and conducted a variety of scientific and technological experiments in low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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-41C Description of subject: STS-41C was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission notable for successfully repairing the Solar Maximum Mission satellite during the first on-orbit satellite repair operation.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B
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Crippen