Robert D. Cabana
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Robert D. Cabana is a former NASA astronaut and Marine Corps colonel who later served in senior leadership roles at NASA, including as director of the Kennedy Space Center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert D. Cabana canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1639126 — 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: Robert D. Cabana Context triple: [STS-88, commander, Robert D. Cabana]
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A.
James A. Abrahamson
James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
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B.
Dennis J. Picard
Dennis J. Picard was a prominent engineer and leader in radar technology whose contributions to the field led the IEEE to name its prestigious Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications in his honor.
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C.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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D.
Thomas J. Biersteker
Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
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E.
Michael P. Shawver
Michael P. Shawver is a film editor known for his frequent collaborations with director Ryan Coogler on acclaimed films such as Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther.
- 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: Robert D. Cabana Target entity description: Robert D. Cabana is a former NASA astronaut and Marine Corps colonel who later served in senior leadership roles at NASA, including as director of the Kennedy Space Center.
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A.
James A. Abrahamson
James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
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B.
Dennis J. Picard
Dennis J. Picard was a prominent engineer and leader in radar technology whose contributions to the field led the IEEE to name its prestigious Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications in his honor.
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C.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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D.
Thomas J. Biersteker
Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
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E.
Michael P. Shawver
Michael P. Shawver is a film editor known for his frequent collaborations with director Ryan Coogler on acclaimed films such as Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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United States Marine Corps officer ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in mathematics
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Master of Science in engineering ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Defense Superior Service Medal
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Distinguished Flying Cross ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ NASA Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ NASA Exceptional Service Medal ⓘ NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Naval Postgraduate School
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United States Naval Academy ⓘ United States Naval Test Pilot School ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Naval Test Pilot School
|
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Cabana ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
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human spaceflight ⓘ space station operations ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership of Kennedy Space Center during Space Shuttle transition to commercial crew era ⓘ |
| notableWork | first International Space Station assembly mission STS-88 ⓘ |
| occupation |
aerospace engineer
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astronaut ⓘ civil servant ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
NASA astronaut office chief of astronaut training
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associate administrator of NASA ⓘ deputy associate administrator of NASA ⓘ director of NASA Johnson Space Center Flight Crew Operations ⓘ director of NASA Kennedy Space Center ⓘ director of NASA Stennis Space Center ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceflightTime | over 37 days in space ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-41
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STS-53 ⓘ STS-65 ⓘ STS-88 ⓘ |
| wasCommanderOf | STS-88 ⓘ |
| wasMissionSpecialistOn | STS-41 ⓘ |
| wasPilotOf |
STS-53
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STS-65 ⓘ |
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: Robert D. Cabana Description of subject: Robert D. Cabana is a former NASA astronaut and Marine Corps colonel who later served in senior leadership roles at NASA, including as director of the Kennedy Space Center.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.