STS-87
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STS-87 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and solar physics experiments, notable for including astronaut Kalpana Chawla among its crew.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-87 canonical | 8 |
| STS-87 United States Microgravity Payload-4 mission | 1 |
| Space Shuttle Columbia STS-87 | 1 |
| Space Shuttle mission STS-87 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3505203 — 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-87 Context triple: [Kalpana Chawla, notableWork, STS-87]
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A.
STS-83
STS-83 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity science research as part of the Microgravity Science Laboratory program.
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B.
STS-82
STS-82 was NASA’s second Space Shuttle servicing mission to upgrade and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, enhancing its scientific capabilities.
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C.
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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D.
STS-58
STS-58 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on life sciences research, particularly the effects of spaceflight on the human body.
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E.
STS-76
STS-76 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering astronaut Shannon Lucid to the Russian Mir space station for a long-duration stay.
- 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-87 Target entity description: STS-87 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and solar physics experiments, notable for including astronaut Kalpana Chawla among its crew.
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A.
STS-83
STS-83 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity science research as part of the Microgravity Science Laboratory program.
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B.
STS-82
STS-82 was NASA’s second Space Shuttle servicing mission to upgrade and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, enhancing its scientific capabilities.
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C.
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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D.
STS-58
STS-58 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on life sciences research, particularly the effects of spaceflight on the human body.
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E.
STS-76
STS-76 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering astronaut Shannon Lucid to the Russian Mir space station for a long-duration stay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA spaceflight
ⓘ
Space Shuttle mission ⓘ |
| carriedPayload |
Get Away Special canisters
ⓘ
Hitchhiker payloads ⓘ Spartan 201-04 ⓘ
linked to:
Spartan-Halley (SPARTAN-203)
|
| commander | Kevin R. Kregel ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Kalpana Chawla
ⓘ
Kevin R. Kregel ⓘ Leonid Kadenyuk ⓘ Steven W. Lindsey ⓘ Takao Doi ⓘ Winston E. Scott ⓘ |
| crewSize | 6 ⓘ |
| evaCount | 2 ⓘ |
| evaPerformedBy |
Takao Doi
ⓘ
Winston E. Scott ⓘ |
| evaPurpose | space station assembly and maintenance tests ⓘ |
| experiment |
microgravity combustion experiments
ⓘ
microgravity materials science experiments ⓘ solar physics observations ⓘ space biology experiments ⓘ |
| followedBy | STS-89 ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1997-12-05 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1997-11-19 ⓘ |
| launchMass | about 115,000 kg ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 15 days 16 hours 34 minutes ⓘ |
| missionPatchFeature |
Space Shuttle Columbia with microgravity and solar imagery themes
ⓘ
linked to:
Spacelab missions
|
| missionSpecialist |
Kalpana Chawla
ⓘ
Takao Doi ⓘ Winston E. Scott ⓘ |
| missionType |
microgravity research mission
ⓘ
solar physics research mission ⓘ |
| notableFor |
deployment and recapture issues with Spartan 201
ⓘ
first flight of a Ukrainian astronaut Leonid Kadenyuk ⓘ first spaceflight of Kalpana Chawla ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitApogee | approximately 307 km ⓘ |
| orbitInclination | 28.45 degrees ⓘ |
| orbitPerigee | approximately 296 km ⓘ |
| orbitPeriod | about 90.4 minutes ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 252 ⓘ |
| payloadSpecialist | Leonid Kadenyuk ⓘ |
| pilot | Steven W. Lindsey ⓘ |
| precededBy | STS-86 ⓘ |
| primaryPayload |
USMP-4
ⓘ
United States Microgravity Payload-4 ⓘ |
| program |
Space Shuttle program
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Space Shuttle program
|
| spacecraft |
OV-102
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Columbia ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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-87 Description of subject: STS-87 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and solar physics experiments, notable for including astronaut Kalpana Chawla among its crew.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: STS-87
linked to: STS-87
linked to: STS-87