Alan L. Bean
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Alan L. Bean was a NASA astronaut, lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, and the fourth person to walk on the Moon, who later became known for his space-themed artwork.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan L. Bean canonical | 28 |
| Alan Bean | 3 |
| Alan LaVern Bean | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2330334 — 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: Alan L. Bean Context triple: [Apollo 12, lunarModulePilot, Alan L. Bean]
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A.
Alfred M. Worden
Alfred M. Worden was an American astronaut and test pilot best known for serving as the command module pilot on NASA's Apollo 15 lunar mission.
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B.
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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C.
Pete Conrad
Pete Conrad was an American astronaut, naval officer, and the third person to walk on the Moon, best known for his role in NASA’s Gemini and Apollo programs.
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D.
James B. Irwin
James B. Irwin was a NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel who became the eighth person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission.
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E.
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.
- 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: Alan L. Bean Target entity description: Alan L. Bean was a NASA astronaut, lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, and the fourth person to walk on the Moon, who later became known for his space-themed artwork.
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A.
Alfred M. Worden
Alfred M. Worden was an American astronaut and test pilot best known for serving as the command module pilot on NASA's Apollo 15 lunar mission.
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B.
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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C.
Pete Conrad
Pete Conrad was an American astronaut, naval officer, and the third person to walk on the Moon, best known for his role in NASA’s Gemini and Apollo programs.
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D.
James B. Irwin
James B. Irwin was a NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel who became the eighth person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Alan L. Bean Description of subject: Alan L. Bean was a NASA astronaut, lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, and the fourth person to walk on the Moon, who later became known for his space-themed artwork.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alan L. Bean
linked to: Alan L. Bean
linked to: Alan L. Bean
linked to: Alan L. Bean
subject linked to:
Wheeler, Texas, United States
subject linked to:
Wheeler, Texas, United States
subject linked to:
Richard F. Gordon Jr. (Gemini 11 crewmate: Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr.)