Rex Walheim
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Rex Walheim is a NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Air Force colonel best known for his spacewalks on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the final Shuttle flight, STS-135.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rex Walheim canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2092862 — 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: Rex Walheim Context triple: [STS-135, missionSpecialist, Rex Walheim]
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A.
Ray Davis
Ray Davis is an American businessman best known as the principal owner and co-chairman of Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers.
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B.
Peter Brock
Peter Brock was a legendary Australian touring car driver, best known for his multiple Bathurst 1000 victories and iconic status in Holden motorsport history.
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C.
Carroll Shelby
Carroll Shelby was a legendary American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur best known for creating high-performance cars like the Shelby Cobra and collaborating with Ford on the GT40 program.
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D.
Gary Cederstrom
Gary Cederstrom is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous postseason games and served as crew chief in multiple World Series.
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E.
Gunther Stent
Gunther Stent was a German-born American molecular biologist and philosopher of science known for his pioneering work in bacteriophage genetics and his reflections on the social and ethical implications of scientific research.
- 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: Rex Walheim Target entity description: Rex Walheim is a NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Air Force colonel best known for his spacewalks on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the final Shuttle flight, STS-135.
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A.
Ray Davis
Ray Davis is an American businessman best known as the principal owner and co-chairman of Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers.
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B.
Peter Brock
Peter Brock was a legendary Australian touring car driver, best known for his multiple Bathurst 1000 victories and iconic status in Holden motorsport history.
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C.
Carroll Shelby
Carroll Shelby was a legendary American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur best known for creating high-performance cars like the Shelby Cobra and collaborating with Ford on the GT40 program.
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D.
Gary Cederstrom
Gary Cederstrom is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous postseason games and served as crew chief in multiple World Series.
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E.
Gunther Stent
Gunther Stent was a German-born American molecular biologist and philosopher of science known for his pioneering work in bacteriophage genetics and his reflections on the social and ethical implications of scientific research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Air Force officer ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Force Aerial Achievement Medal
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Defense Meritorious Service Medal ⓘ Defense Superior Service Medal ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ Meritorious Service Medal ⓘ NASA Exceptional Service Medal ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Air Command and Staff College
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Armed Forces Staff College ⓘ Naval Postgraduate School ⓘ Squadron Officer School ⓘ University of California, Berkeley ⓘ University of Houston ⓘ |
| employer |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA
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| familyName | Walheim ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
extravehicular activity
ⓘ
human spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | Rex ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering
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Master of Science in industrial engineering ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| missionRole | mission specialist ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
flew on final Space Shuttle mission
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performed multiple spacewalks ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role on final Space Shuttle flight STS-135
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spacewalks on International Space Station assembly missions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
participation in final Space Shuttle mission STS-135
ⓘ
spacewalks on Space Shuttle missions ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
fighter pilot ⓘ test engineer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
STS-110
ⓘ
STS-122 ⓘ STS-135 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Assistant Director for Operations, Flight Operations Directorate
ⓘ
CAPCOM at Johnson Space Center ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Mission Control
Chief of the EVA branch, Astronaut Office ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-110
ⓘ
linked to:
STS-110
Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-122 ⓘ
linked to:
STS-122
Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-135 ⓘ
linked to:
STS-135
|
| workLocation | Johnson Space Center ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Rex Walheim Description of subject: Rex Walheim is a NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Air Force colonel best known for his spacewalks on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the final Shuttle flight, STS-135.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.