Sandra Magnus
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Sandra Magnus is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent several months aboard the International Space Station.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sandra Magnus canonical | 7 |
| Sandra H. Magnus | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2092861 — 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: Sandra Magnus Context triple: [STS-135, missionSpecialist, Sandra Magnus]
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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.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Eileen Collins
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.
- 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: Sandra Magnus Target entity description: Sandra Magnus is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent several months aboard the International Space Station.
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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.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Eileen Collins
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American astronaut
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NASA astronaut ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| affiliation | NASA ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
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NASA Space Flight Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Georgia Institute of Technology
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University of Missouri–Rolla ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Magnus ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | aerospace engineering ⓘ |
| genre | space exploration ⓘ |
| givenName | Sandra ⓘ |
| hasExperience |
International Space Station operations
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Space Shuttle operations ⓘ extravehicular activity training ⓘ long-duration spaceflight ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | executive in aerospace industry ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the last astronauts to fly on the Space Shuttle program
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serving several months aboard the International Space Station ⓘ |
| notableRole |
crew member of Expedition 18 to the ISS
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mission specialist on STS-112 ⓘ mission specialist on STS-119 ⓘ mission specialist on STS-135 ⓘ |
| notableWork | long-duration mission on the International Space Station ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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engineer ⓘ |
| operatorOf |
International Space Station
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Space Shuttle Atlantis ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Expedition 18 long-duration ISS mission
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final Space Shuttle mission STS-135 ⓘ
linked to:
STS-135
|
| partOf | U.S. human spaceflight program ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
flight engineer on the International Space Station
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mission specialist on Space Shuttle missions ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Expedition 18
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STS-112 ⓘ STS-119 ⓘ STS-135 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Johnson Space Center ⓘ |
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: Sandra Magnus Description of subject: Sandra Magnus is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent several months aboard the International Space Station.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sandra Magnus
linked to: Sandra Magnus
linked to: Sandra Magnus
linked to: Sandra Magnus
subject linked to:
Expedition 18 long-duration ISS mission