STS-4
E370998
STS-4 was the fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, a 1982 test flight of Columbia that marked the final mission of the Shuttle’s orbital flight test program.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-4 canonical | 10 |
| STS-4 mission | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3568833 — 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-4 Context triple: [Ken Mattingly, spaceMission, STS-4]
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A.
STS-41
STS-41 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that deployed the Ulysses spacecraft to study the Sun’s polar regions.
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B.
STS-41C
STS-41C was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission notable for successfully repairing the Solar Maximum Mission satellite during the first on-orbit satellite repair operation.
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C.
STS-7
STS-7 was a 1983 NASA Space Shuttle mission notable for carrying Sally Ride, who became the first American woman in space during the flight.
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D.
STS-41-D
STS-41-D was the maiden orbital mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery, launched by NASA in 1984 to deploy communications satellites and conduct scientific experiments.
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E.
STS-41B
STS-41B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission best known for the first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
- 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-4 Target entity description: STS-4 was the fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, a 1982 test flight of Columbia that marked the final mission of the Shuttle’s orbital flight test program.
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A.
STS-41
STS-41 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that deployed the Ulysses spacecraft to study the Sun’s polar regions.
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B.
STS-41C
STS-41C was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission notable for successfully repairing the Solar Maximum Mission satellite during the first on-orbit satellite repair operation.
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C.
STS-7
STS-7 was a 1983 NASA Space Shuttle mission notable for carrying Sally Ride, who became the first American woman in space during the flight.
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D.
STS-41-D
STS-41-D was the maiden orbital mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery, launched by NASA in 1984 to deploy communications satellites and conduct scientific experiments.
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E.
STS-41B
STS-41B was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission best known for the first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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-4 Description of subject: STS-4 was the fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, a 1982 test flight of Columbia that marked the final mission of the Shuttle’s orbital flight test program.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
STS-5 with Columbia
linked to: STS-4
subject linked to:
Jack R. Lousma – STS-3
subject linked to:
Vance D. Brand – STS-5