James McDivitt
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James McDivitt was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew on the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions, playing a key role in the early American space program.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James McDivitt canonical | 9 |
| James Alton McDivitt | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3726052 — 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: James McDivitt Context triple: [Gemini 4, commander, James McDivitt]
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A.
David Hedison
David Hedison was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the 1960s sci-fi series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and for appearing in two James Bond films.
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B.
Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond was an American film and television actor, director, and composer active from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood dramas and musicals.
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C.
Vic Morrow
Vic Morrow was an American actor best known for his role in the television series "Combat!" and for his tragic death in a helicopter accident during the filming of "Twilight Zone: The Movie."
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D.
Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar was an American character actor best known for playing Peter Thornton on the television series "MacGyver" and for his numerous supporting roles in film and TV.
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E.
Michael Rennie
Michael Rennie was a British film and television actor best known for his role as the alien Klaatu in the classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951).
- 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: James McDivitt Target entity description: James McDivitt was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew on the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions, playing a key role in the early American space program.
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A.
David Hedison
David Hedison was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the 1960s sci-fi series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and for appearing in two James Bond films.
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B.
Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond was an American film and television actor, director, and composer active from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood dramas and musicals.
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C.
Vic Morrow
Vic Morrow was an American actor best known for his role in the television series "Combat!" and for his tragic death in a helicopter accident during the filming of "Twilight Zone: The Movie."
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D.
Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar was an American character actor best known for playing Peter Thornton on the television series "MacGyver" and for his numerous supporting roles in film and TV.
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E.
Michael Rennie
Michael Rennie was a British film and television actor best known for his role as the alien Klaatu in the classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951).
- 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: James McDivitt Description of subject: James McDivitt was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew on the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions, playing a key role in the early American space program.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.