Thomas Patten Stafford
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Thomas Patten Stafford was an American NASA astronaut, Air Force general, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 10 mission that orbited the Moon as a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Patten Stafford canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3463838 — 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: Thomas Patten Stafford Context triple: [Thomas Stafford, fullName, Thomas Patten Stafford]
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A.
William Hal Ashby
William Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor best known for his offbeat, character-driven films of the 1970s such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
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B.
Lee Patrick
Lee Patrick was an American character actress best known for her prolific film and television work from the 1930s through the 1960s, including roles in classics like "The Maltese Falcon."
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C.
Charles Stevens
Charles Stevens is a person known primarily as a relative of Damien Holland.
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D.
Arthur K. Bolton
Arthur K. Bolton was the Attorney General of Georgia who defended the state's abortion law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton.
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E.
John Boies Tileston
John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
- 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: Thomas Patten Stafford Target entity description: Thomas Patten Stafford was an American NASA astronaut, Air Force general, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 10 mission that orbited the Moon as a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
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A.
William Hal Ashby
William Hal Ashby was an influential American film director and editor best known for his offbeat, character-driven films of the 1970s such as "Harold and Maude," "Shampoo," and "Being There."
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B.
Lee Patrick
Lee Patrick was an American character actress best known for her prolific film and television work from the 1930s through the 1960s, including roles in classics like "The Maltese Falcon."
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C.
Charles Stevens
Charles Stevens is a person known primarily as a relative of Damien Holland.
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D.
Arthur K. Bolton
Arthur K. Bolton was the Attorney General of Georgia who defended the state's abortion law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton.
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E.
John Boies Tileston
John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Thomas Patten Stafford Description of subject: Thomas Patten Stafford was an American NASA astronaut, Air Force general, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 10 mission that orbited the Moon as a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Thomas P. Stafford commanded Apollo 10