STS-107
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STS-107 was the final mission of Space Shuttle Columbia, tragically ending in 2003 when the orbiter disintegrated during reentry, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| STS-107 canonical | 40 |
| Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission | 2 |
| Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107 | 2 |
| STS-107 Columbia disaster | 1 |
| STS-107 crew | 1 |
| STS-107 microgravity research mission | 1 |
| STS-107 mission | 1 |
| research mission STS-107 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T249392 — 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: STS-107 Context triple: [NASA Space Shuttle program, notableMission, STS-107]
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A.
STS-51L
STS-51L was the ill-fated 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger mission that ended in disaster shortly after launch, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members and major reforms in NASA’s spaceflight program.
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STS-135
STS-135 was the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, flown by Atlantis in 2011 to resupply the International Space Station and conclude the shuttle era.
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C.
STS-41B
STS-41B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission best known for the first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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D.
STS-88
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, delivering and assembling its initial U.S. and Russian modules in orbit.
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E.
STS-61
STS-61 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission best known for successfully repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope during a series of complex spacewalks.
- 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: STS-107 Target entity description: STS-107 was the final mission of Space Shuttle Columbia, tragically ending in 2003 when the orbiter disintegrated during reentry, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
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A.
STS-51L
STS-51L was the ill-fated 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger mission that ended in disaster shortly after launch, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members and major reforms in NASA’s spaceflight program.
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B.
STS-135
STS-135 was the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, flown by Atlantis in 2011 to resupply the International Space Station and conclude the shuttle era.
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C.
STS-41B
STS-41B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission best known for the first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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D.
STS-88
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, delivering and assembling its initial U.S. and Russian modules in orbit.
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E.
STS-61
STS-61 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission best known for successfully repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope during a series of complex spacewalks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: STS-107 Description of subject: STS-107 was the final mission of Space Shuttle Columbia, tragically ending in 2003 when the orbiter disintegrated during reentry, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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McCool
McCool Elementary/Middle School, Guam
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McCool Hall, United States Naval Academy
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Husband Hill on Mars
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Ramon
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Ramon
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McCool, Texas
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McCool, Texas