Valentina Tereshkova
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Valentina Tereshkova is a Soviet cosmonaut and engineer who became the first woman to fly in space, piloting Vostok 6 in 1963.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Valentina Tereshkova canonical | 8 |
| Tereshkova | 1 |
| Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1730885 — 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: Valentina Tereshkova Context triple: [Harmon Trophy, notableRecipient, Valentina Tereshkova]
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A.
Valentina Goryacheva
Valentina Goryacheva is the widow of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and a Russian public figure who has been involved in preserving his legacy.
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B.
Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar is a Canadian neurologist, astronaut, and photographer who became the first Canadian woman to travel into space.
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C.
Helen Sharman
Helen Sharman is a British chemist and astronaut who became the first British person in space after being selected for the 1991 Project Juno mission to the Mir space station.
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D.
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, orbiting Earth on 12 April 1961 and becoming an international symbol of the Space Age.
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E.
Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer who became the first woman of Indian origin in space and tragically died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
- 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: Valentina Tereshkova Target entity description: Valentina Tereshkova is a Soviet cosmonaut and engineer who became the first woman to fly in space, piloting Vostok 6 in 1963.
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A.
Valentina Goryacheva
Valentina Goryacheva is the widow of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and a Russian public figure who has been involved in preserving his legacy.
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B.
Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar is a Canadian neurologist, astronaut, and photographer who became the first Canadian woman to travel into space.
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C.
Helen Sharman
Helen Sharman is a British chemist and astronaut who became the first British person in space after being selected for the 1991 Project Juno mission to the Mir space station.
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D.
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, orbiting Earth on 12 April 1961 and becoming an international symbol of the Space Age.
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E.
Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer who became the first woman of Indian origin in space and tragically died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Valentina Tereshkova Description of subject: Valentina Tereshkova is a Soviet cosmonaut and engineer who became the first woman to fly in space, piloting Vostok 6 in 1963.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Soviet space program
subject linked to:
Vostok programme
linked to: Valentina Tereshkova
linked to: Valentina Tereshkova