Stuart A. Roosa
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Stuart A. Roosa was a NASA astronaut and command module pilot on Apollo 14, known for orbiting the Moon while his crewmates explored the lunar surface.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stuart A. Roosa canonical | 8 |
| Stuart Allen Roosa | 1 |
| Stuart Roosa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2169261 — 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: Stuart A. Roosa Context triple: [Apollo 17, backupCommandModulePilot, Stuart A. Roosa]
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A.
Fred Haise
Fred Haise is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the lunar module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
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B.
Harrison H. Schmitt
Harrison H. Schmitt is a geologist and former NASA astronaut who became the first professional scientist to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission.
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C.
Eugene Cernan
Eugene Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, and engineer best known as the commander of Apollo 17 and the last person to walk on the Moon.
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D.
Thomas Stafford
Thomas Stafford is a retired United States Air Force general and NASA astronaut best known for commanding the Apollo 10 mission and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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E.
William Anders
William Anders was a U.S. Air Force major general and Apollo 8 astronaut best known for taking the iconic "Earthrise" photograph during humanity’s first crewed orbit of the Moon.
- 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: Stuart A. Roosa Target entity description: Stuart A. Roosa was a NASA astronaut and command module pilot on Apollo 14, known for orbiting the Moon while his crewmates explored the lunar surface.
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A.
Fred Haise
Fred Haise is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the lunar module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
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B.
Harrison H. Schmitt
Harrison H. Schmitt is a geologist and former NASA astronaut who became the first professional scientist to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission.
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C.
Eugene Cernan
Eugene Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, and engineer best known as the commander of Apollo 17 and the last person to walk on the Moon.
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D.
Thomas Stafford
Thomas Stafford is a retired United States Air Force general and NASA astronaut best known for commanding the Apollo 10 mission and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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E.
William Anders
William Anders was a U.S. Air Force major general and Apollo 8 astronaut best known for taking the iconic "Earthrise" photograph during humanity’s first crewed orbit of the Moon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Stuart A. Roosa Description of subject: Stuart A. Roosa was a NASA astronaut and command module pilot on Apollo 14, known for orbiting the Moon while his crewmates explored the lunar surface.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Stuart A. Roosa
linked to: Stuart A. Roosa