Ronald E. Evans
E307017
American military personnel
NASA astronaut
United States Navy officer
aerospace engineer
human
naval aviator
Ronald E. Evans was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy aviator best known for serving as the command module pilot on the final Apollo lunar mission.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ronald E. Evans canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2169230 — 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: Ronald E. Evans Context triple: [Apollo 17, commandModulePilot, Ronald E. Evans]
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A.
James A. Allison
James A. Allison was an American entrepreneur and industrialist best known as one of the founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Allison Engineering Company, a major aircraft engine manufacturer.
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B.
Frederick W. Lander
Frederick W. Lander was a 19th-century American civil engineer and explorer best known for surveying and constructing overland wagon routes to the western United States.
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C.
Richard H. Garrett
Richard H. Garrett was a Virginia farmer best known for owning the rural property near Port Royal where John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, was captured and killed in 1865.
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D.
Eric E. Osmond
Eric E. Osmond is a film editor best known for his work on the animated feature "The Super Mario Bros. Movie."
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E.
Kenneth W. Hess
Kenneth W. Hess is an aerospace and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
- 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: Ronald E. Evans Target entity description: Ronald E. Evans was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy aviator best known for serving as the command module pilot on the final Apollo lunar mission.
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A.
James A. Allison
James A. Allison was an American entrepreneur and industrialist best known as one of the founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Allison Engineering Company, a major aircraft engine manufacturer.
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B.
Frederick W. Lander
Frederick W. Lander was a 19th-century American civil engineer and explorer best known for surveying and constructing overland wagon routes to the western United States.
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C.
Richard H. Garrett
Richard H. Garrett was a Virginia farmer best known for owning the rural property near Port Royal where John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, was captured and killed in 1865.
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D.
Eric E. Osmond
Eric E. Osmond is a film editor best known for his work on the animated feature "The Super Mario Bros. Movie."
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E.
Kenneth W. Hess
Kenneth W. Hess is an aerospace and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Ronald E. Evans Description of subject: Ronald E. Evans was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy aviator best known for serving as the command module pilot on the final Apollo lunar mission.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.