Megan McArthur
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Megan McArthur is a NASA astronaut and oceanographer best known for her role as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle missions, including the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing flight.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Megan McArthur canonical | 8 |
| K. Megan McArthur | 5 |
| Katherine Megan McArthur | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2238558 — 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: Megan McArthur Context triple: [STS-125, missionSpecialist, Megan McArthur]
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A.
Megan Foster
Megan Foster is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Coralville, Iowa.
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B.
Megan Walsh
Megan Walsh is the teenage government-trained assassin who goes undercover as a high school student in the action-comedy film "Barely Lethal."
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C.
Megan Griffin
Megan Griffin is a fictional teenage character from the animated television series "Family Guy," known as the often-mocked and socially awkward daughter of the Griffin family.
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D.
Megan Holley
Megan Holley is an American screenwriter best known for writing the indie dramedy film "Sunshine Cleaning."
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E.
Megan Davis
Megan Davis is an Australian constitutional lawyer and Indigenous rights advocate renowned for her leadership in advancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights and constitutional recognition.
- 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: Megan McArthur Target entity description: Megan McArthur is a NASA astronaut and oceanographer best known for her role as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle missions, including the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing flight.
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A.
Megan Foster
Megan Foster is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Coralville, Iowa.
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B.
Megan Walsh
Megan Walsh is the teenage government-trained assassin who goes undercover as a high school student in the action-comedy film "Barely Lethal."
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C.
Megan Griffin
Megan Griffin is a fictional teenage character from the animated television series "Family Guy," known as the often-mocked and socially awkward daughter of the Griffin family.
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D.
Megan Holley
Megan Holley is an American screenwriter best known for writing the indie dramedy film "Sunshine Cleaning."
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E.
Megan Davis
Megan Davis is an Australian constitutional lawyer and Indigenous rights advocate renowned for her leadership in advancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights and constitutional recognition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
human ⓘ oceanographer ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering
ⓘ
PhD in Oceanography ⓘ |
| alternateName |
K. Megan McArthur
ⓘ
linked to:
Megan McArthur
Katherine Megan McArthur ⓘ
linked to:
Megan McArthur
|
| astronautSelectionYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1971-08-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
ⓘ
University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | McArthur ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace
ⓘ
oceanography ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Katherine ⓘ |
| hasChild | 1 son ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
NASA Distinguished Service awards (various team awards)
ⓘ
NASA Space Flight Medal ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| militaryService | none ⓘ |
| missionEnd |
STS-125 2009-05-24
ⓘ
SpaceX Crew-2 2021-11-08 ⓘ |
| missionStart |
STS-125 2009-05-11
ⓘ
SpaceX Crew-2 2021-04-23 ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
helped extend the life and capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope
ⓘ
served as pilot on a commercial crew spacecraft ⓘ |
| notableWork |
final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission
ⓘ
linked to:
Hubble Servicing Mission 4
|
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
oceanographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States ⓘ |
| researchActivity |
oceanographic field operations
ⓘ
undersea acoustic communication and navigation ⓘ |
| residence | Houston, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| roleInMission |
mission specialist on STS-125
ⓘ
pilot of Crew Dragon Endeavour on SpaceX Crew-2 ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronautBy | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraftFlown |
Crew Dragon Endeavour
ⓘ
linked to:
Crew Dragon Freedom
Space Shuttle Atlantis ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-125
ⓘ
SpaceX Crew-2 ⓘ
linked to:
Crew-2
|
| spaceStationVisit | International Space Station ⓘ |
| spouse |
Bob Behnken
ⓘ
linked to:
Robert L. Behnken
|
| totalTimeInSpace | approximately 212 days ⓘ |
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: Megan McArthur Description of subject: Megan McArthur is a NASA astronaut and oceanographer best known for her role as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle missions, including the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing flight.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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