Douglas Hurley
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Douglas Hurley is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel and NASA astronaut best known for piloting the final Space Shuttle mission STS-135 and later commanding SpaceX’s first crewed flight, Demo-2.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglas G. Hurley | 6 |
| Douglas Hurley canonical | 2 |
| Doug Hurley | 1 |
| Douglas H. Hurley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2092860 — 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: Douglas Hurley Context triple: [STS-135, pilot, Douglas Hurley]
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A.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
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B.
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
Jeffrey A. Hoffman is an American NASA astronaut and astrophysicist best known for his multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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C.
John David Stier
John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
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D.
Piers Sellers
Piers Sellers was a British-American NASA astronaut and climate scientist known for his space shuttle missions and contributions to Earth science research.
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E.
Rick Martinez
Rick Martinez is a fictional NASA astronaut and pilot in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel "The Martian."
- 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: Douglas Hurley Target entity description: Douglas Hurley is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel and NASA astronaut best known for piloting the final Space Shuttle mission STS-135 and later commanding SpaceX’s first crewed flight, Demo-2.
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A.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
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B.
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
Jeffrey A. Hoffman is an American NASA astronaut and astrophysicist best known for his multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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C.
John David Stier
John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
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D.
Piers Sellers
Piers Sellers was a British-American NASA astronaut and climate scientist known for his space shuttle missions and contributions to Earth science research.
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E.
Rick Martinez
Rick Martinez is a fictional NASA astronaut and pilot in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel "The Martian."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Douglas Hurley Description of subject: Douglas Hurley is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel and NASA astronaut best known for piloting the final Space Shuttle mission STS-135 and later commanding SpaceX’s first crewed flight, Demo-2.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Douglas Hurley
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linked to: Douglas Hurley
linked to: Douglas Hurley