Eileen Collins
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Eileen Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force colonel who became the first woman to pilot and later command a Space Shuttle mission.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eileen Collins canonical | 10 |
| Eileen M. Collins | 3 |
| Eileen Marie Collins | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1688928 — 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: Eileen Collins Context triple: [STS-114, crewMember, Eileen Collins]
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A.
Shannon Lucid
Shannon Lucid is an American biochemist and NASA astronaut known for holding long-duration spaceflight records and serving on multiple Space Shuttle and Mir space missions.
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B.
Laurel B. Clark
Laurel B. Clark was a U.S. Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle Columbia and died in the STS-107 disaster in 2003.
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C.
Judith Resnik
Judith Resnik was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut who became one of the first American women in space and tragically died during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
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D.
Sunita Williams
Sunita Williams is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Navy test pilot known for her long-duration stays on the International Space Station and holding records for spacewalks by a woman.
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E.
Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
- 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: Eileen Collins Target entity description: Eileen Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force colonel who became the first woman to pilot and later command a Space Shuttle mission.
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A.
Shannon Lucid
Shannon Lucid is an American biochemist and NASA astronaut known for holding long-duration spaceflight records and serving on multiple Space Shuttle and Mir space missions.
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B.
Laurel B. Clark
Laurel B. Clark was a U.S. Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle Columbia and died in the STS-107 disaster in 2003.
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C.
Judith Resnik
Judith Resnik was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut who became one of the first American women in space and tragically died during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
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D.
Sunita Williams
Sunita Williams is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Navy test pilot known for her long-duration stays on the International Space Station and holding records for spacewalks by a woman.
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E.
Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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aviator ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ woman ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Defense Superior Service Medal
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Distinguished Flying Cross ⓘ NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-11-19 ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and economics from Syracuse University
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Master of Arts in space systems management from Air Force Institute of Technology ⓘ Master of Science in operations research from Stanford University ⓘ |
| education |
Air Force Institute of Technology
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Corning Community College ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ Syracuse University ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
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United States Air Force ⓘ |
| familyName | Collins ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
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human spaceflight ⓘ |
| firstSpaceflight | STS-63 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Eileen Marie Collins
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linked to:
Eileen Collins
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Eileen ⓘ |
| hasWritten | memoir "Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars" ⓘ |
| honor |
inductee of the National Women’s Hall of Fame
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inductee of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first female Space Shuttle commander
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first female Space Shuttle pilot ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission
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being the first woman to pilot a Space Shuttle ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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author ⓘ military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Elmira, New York, United States
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linked to:
Elmira, New York
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| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| retiredFromNASA | 2006 ⓘ |
| roleInMission |
commander of STS-114
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commander of STS-93 ⓘ pilot of STS-63 ⓘ pilot of STS-84 ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronaut | 1990 ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-114
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STS-63 ⓘ STS-84 ⓘ STS-93 ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | approximately 38 days ⓘ |
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: Eileen Collins Description of subject: Eileen Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force colonel who became the first woman to pilot and later command a Space Shuttle mission.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Eileen Collins
subject linked to:
memoir "Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars"
subject linked to:
memoir "Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars"
linked to: Eileen Collins