Judith Resnik
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Judith Resnik was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut who became one of the first American women in space and tragically died during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Judith Resnik canonical | 14 |
| Judith A. Resnik | 9 |
| American astronaut Judith Resnik | 1 |
| Judith Arlene Resnik | 1 |
| astronaut Judith A. Resnik | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T310176 — 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: Judith Resnik Context triple: [Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, crewMember, Judith Resnik]
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A.
Shannon Lucid
Shannon Lucid is an American biochemist and NASA astronaut known for holding long-duration spaceflight records and serving on multiple Space Shuttle and Mir space missions.
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B.
Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
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C.
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-41-B and was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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D.
Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar is a Canadian neurologist, astronaut, and photographer who became the first Canadian woman to travel into space.
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E.
Francis R. Scobee
Francis R. Scobee was a United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s final mission, STS-51-L.
- 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: Judith Resnik Target entity description: Judith Resnik was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut who became one of the first American women in space and tragically died during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
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A.
Shannon Lucid
Shannon Lucid is an American biochemist and NASA astronaut known for holding long-duration spaceflight records and serving on multiple Space Shuttle and Mir space missions.
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B.
Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
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C.
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-41-B and was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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D.
Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar is a Canadian neurologist, astronaut, and photographer who became the first Canadian woman to travel into space.
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E.
Francis R. Scobee
Francis R. Scobee was a United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s final mission, STS-51-L.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Jew
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NASA astronaut ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ electrical engineer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering
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PhD in electrical engineering ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Congressional Space Medal of Honor ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-04-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-01-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Carnegie Mellon University
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linked to:
CMU
University of Maryland, College Park ⓘ
linked to:
University of Maryland
|
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Resnik ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
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electrical engineering ⓘ |
| fullName |
Judith Arlene Resnik
ⓘ
linked to:
Judith Resnik
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| givenName | Judith ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Charles Resnik ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | accident ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| memorial |
Judith A. Resnik Community Learning Center, Akron, Ohio
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Judith A. Resnik Elementary School, Gaithersburg, Maryland ⓘ asteroid 3356 Resnik ⓘ crater Resnik on the Moon ⓘ |
| NASAAstronautGroup | NASA Astronaut Group 8 ⓘ |
| notableEvent | launch and destruction of Space Shuttle Challenger on STS-51-L ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first Jewish astronauts from the United States
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being the second American woman in space ⓘ dying in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Akron, Ohio, United States
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linked to:
Akron
|
| placeOfDeath | over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Florida, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInMission |
mission specialist on STS-41-D
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mission specialist on STS-51-L ⓘ |
| selectionYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-41-D
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STS-51-L ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleFlownOn |
Space Shuttle Challenger
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Space Shuttle Discovery ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | approximately 6 days ⓘ |
| wasOneOf | first American women in space ⓘ |
| workedOn |
experiments in materials processing in space
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orbiter deployment and retrieval systems ⓘ |
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: Judith Resnik Description of subject: Judith Resnik was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut who became one of the first American women in space and tragically died during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Judith A. Resnik Community Learning Center, Akron, Ohio
linked to: Judith Resnik
subject linked to:
Judith A. Resnik Community Learning Center, Akron, Ohio
linked to: Judith Resnik
subject linked to:
asteroid 3356 Resnik
linked to: Judith Resnik
subject linked to:
asteroid 3356 Resnik
linked to: Judith Resnik
subject linked to:
asteroid 3356 Resnik
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crater Resnik on the Moon
linked to: Judith Resnik
subject linked to:
crater Resnik on the Moon
linked to: Judith Resnik