Resnik
E206455
actress
astronaut
bioethicist
electrical engineer
family name
human
opera singer
philosopher
surname
Resnik is a surname most notably associated with Judith Resnik, the American astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Resnik canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1853794 — 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: Resnik Context triple: [Judith Resnik, familyName, Resnik]
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A.
Abelson
Abelson is a surname most notably associated with Hal Abelson, an American computer scientist and educator known for his work on the Scheme programming language and the textbook "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs."
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B.
Sloan
Sloan is a surname most notably associated with Alfred P. Sloan, the influential long-time president and chairman of General Motors.
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C.
Sloan
Sloan is a small unincorporated community in Clark County, Nevada, located just south of Las Vegas along Interstate 15.
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D.
Borstein
Borstein is the surname of American actress and comedian Alex Borstein, known for her voice role as Lois Griffin on "Family Guy" and her performance on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."
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E.
Ussishkin
Ussishkin is a Jewish family name most prominently associated with Zionist leader Menachem Ussishkin.
- 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: Resnik Target entity description: Resnik is a surname most notably associated with Judith Resnik, the American astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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A.
Abelson
Abelson is a surname most notably associated with Hal Abelson, an American computer scientist and educator known for his work on the Scheme programming language and the textbook "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs."
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B.
Sloan
Sloan is a surname most notably associated with Alfred P. Sloan, the influential long-time president and chairman of General Motors.
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C.
Sloan
Sloan is a small unincorporated community in Clark County, Nevada, located just south of Las Vegas along Interstate 15.
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D.
Borstein
Borstein is the surname of American actress and comedian Alex Borstein, known for her voice role as Lois Griffin on "Family Guy" and her performance on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."
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E.
Ussishkin
Ussishkin is a Jewish family name most prominently associated with Zionist leader Menachem Ussishkin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
astronaut ⓘ bioethicist ⓘ electrical engineer ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ opera singer ⓘ philosopher ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-04-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-01-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Carnegie Mellon University
ⓘ
linked to:
CMU
University of Maryland, College Park ⓘ
linked to:
University of Maryland
|
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace
ⓘ
electrical engineering ⓘ opera ⓘ philosophy of mathematics ⓘ research ethics ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Slavic languages ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
David Resnik
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Hollis Resnik ⓘ Judith Resnik ⓘ Michael Resnik ⓘ Yakov Resnik ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Reznik ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the astronauts who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ⓘ |
| participantIn |
STS-41-D
ⓘ
STS-51-L ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Akron, Ohio, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Akron
|
| placeOfDeath |
Space Shuttle Challenger, over Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
linked to:
Space Shuttle Challenger
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| voiceType | baritone ⓘ |
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: Resnik Description of subject: Resnik is a surname most notably associated with Judith Resnik, the American astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.