Jon A. McBride
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Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jon A. McBride canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2053971 — 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: Jon A. McBride Context triple: [STS-41-G, crewMember, Jon A. McBride]
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A.
Steven M. Tipton
Steven M. Tipton is an American sociologist of religion and ethics known for his collaborative work on the role of religion and moral values in contemporary American life.
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B.
John McGowan
John McGowan was a writer whose work served as the basis for the 1943 musical film "Girl Crazy."
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C.
James L. Wilmeth
James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
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D.
Robert J. Wynne
Robert J. Wynne was an American journalist and public official who served in senior federal financial and postal administration roles in the early 20th century.
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E.
Don Graham
Don Graham is a real estate developer best known for his role in creating Honolulu’s Ala Moana Center, one of the largest open-air shopping malls in the world.
- 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: Jon A. McBride Target entity description: Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
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A.
Steven M. Tipton
Steven M. Tipton is an American sociologist of religion and ethics known for his collaborative work on the role of religion and moral values in contemporary American life.
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B.
John McGowan
John McGowan was a writer whose work served as the basis for the 1943 musical film "Girl Crazy."
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C.
James L. Wilmeth
James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
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D.
Robert J. Wynne
Robert J. Wynne was an American journalist and public official who served in senior federal financial and postal administration roles in the early 20th century.
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E.
Don Graham
Don Graham is a real estate developer best known for his role in creating Honolulu’s Ala Moana Center, one of the largest open-air shopping malls in the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Navy officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | McBride ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
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human spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | Jon ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Captain, U.S. Navy ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | served as pilot on Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-G ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a former NASA astronaut
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piloting the Space Shuttle Challenger ⓘ |
| notableWork | piloting STS-41-G mission ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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military officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | pilot of Space Shuttle Challenger on STS-41-G ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronautBy | NASA ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | United States Navy ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Space Shuttle Challenger ⓘ |
| spaceMission | STS-41-G ⓘ |
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: Jon A. McBride Description of subject: Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Space Shuttle Challenger STS-41-G
subject linked to:
Space Shuttle Challenger STS-41-G