STS-3
E427215
STS-3 was the third NASA Space Shuttle mission, flown by Columbia in 1982 to test the shuttle’s systems and capabilities in orbit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-3 canonical | 11 |
| STS-3: 1982-03-30 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4271304 — 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-3 Context triple: [White Sands Space Harbor, usedForMission, STS-3]
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A.
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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B.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
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C.
STS-30
STS-30 was a 1989 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for deploying the Magellan spacecraft to Venus.
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D.
STS-4
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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E.
STS-51A
STS-51A was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission notable for successfully retrieving and returning two stranded communications satellites from orbit.
- 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-3 Target entity description: STS-3 was the third NASA Space Shuttle mission, flown by Columbia in 1982 to test the shuttle’s systems and capabilities in orbit.
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A.
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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B.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
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C.
STS-30
STS-30 was a 1989 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for deploying the Magellan spacecraft to Venus.
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D.
STS-4
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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E.
STS-51A
STS-51A was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission notable for successfully retrieving and returning two stranded communications satellites from orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA Space Shuttle mission
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Columbia mission ⓘ orbital spaceflight ⓘ |
| callSign | Columbia ⓘ |
| commander | Jack R. Lousma ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewMember |
C. Gordon Fullerton
ⓘ
Jack R. Lousma ⓘ |
| crewNationality | American ⓘ |
| crewSize | 2 ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1982-03-30 ⓘ |
| landingRunway | Runway 17 ⓘ |
| landingSite |
White Sands Missile Range
ⓘ
White Sands Space Harbor ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1982-03-22 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
ⓘ
LC-39A ⓘ |
| missionDuration |
8 days
ⓘ
8 days 0 hours 4 minutes ⓘ |
| missionNumber | 3 ⓘ |
| missionType |
orbital test of Space Transportation System
ⓘ
test flight ⓘ |
| nextMission | STS-4 ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
first and only Space Shuttle landing at White Sands Space Harbor
ⓘ
third orbital flight of Space Shuttle Columbia ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitApogee | 247 km ⓘ |
| orbitInclination | 38.0 degrees ⓘ |
| orbitPerigee | 243 km ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 130 ⓘ |
| payload |
OSS-1
ⓘ
Office of Space Science-1 payload ⓘ Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) structure tests ⓘ |
| payloadBayExperiments |
environmental monitoring experiments
ⓘ
materials science experiments ⓘ thermal test article ⓘ |
| pilot | C. Gordon Fullerton ⓘ |
| previousMission | STS-2 ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
continue orbital flight testing of Space Shuttle Columbia
ⓘ
test Space Shuttle systems in orbit ⓘ |
| program |
Space Shuttle program
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Space Shuttle program
|
| spaceAgency |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA
|
| spacecraft | Columbia ⓘ |
| spaceShuttle |
OV-102
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Columbia ⓘ |
| spaceTransportationSystemFlight | STS-3 ⓘ |
| vehicleFlightNumber | Columbia flight 3 ⓘ |
| year | 1982 ⓘ |
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-3 Description of subject: STS-3 was the third NASA Space Shuttle mission, flown by Columbia in 1982 to test the shuttle’s systems and capabilities in orbit.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
White Sands Space Harbor (former Shuttle landing site)
subject linked to:
WSH
linked to: STS-3