Eric A. Boe
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Eric A. Boe is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force fighter and test pilot who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric A. Boe canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4986111 — 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: Eric A. Boe Context triple: [STS-133, pilot, Eric A. Boe]
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A.
David M. Abshire
David M. Abshire was an American diplomat, public servant, and foreign policy expert best known as a co-founder of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and for his roles in U.S. national security and international affairs.
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B.
Donald Schmitt
Donald Schmitt is a Canadian architect known for co-founding the prominent firm Diamond and Schmitt Architects and contributing to major cultural and institutional building projects.
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C.
John David Stier
John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
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D.
Eric L. Beason
Eric L. Beason is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the superhero blockbuster "Spider-Man 3."
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E.
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
Jeffrey A. Hoffman is an American NASA astronaut and astrophysicist best known for his multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
- 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: Eric A. Boe Target entity description: Eric A. Boe is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force fighter and test pilot who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
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A.
David M. Abshire
David M. Abshire was an American diplomat, public servant, and foreign policy expert best known as a co-founder of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and for his roles in U.S. national security and international affairs.
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B.
Donald Schmitt
Donald Schmitt is a Canadian architect known for co-founding the prominent firm Diamond and Schmitt Architects and contributing to major cultural and institutional building projects.
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C.
John David Stier
John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
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D.
Eric L. Beason
Eric L. Beason is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the superhero blockbuster "Spider-Man 3."
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E.
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
Jeffrey A. Hoffman is an American NASA astronaut and astrophysicist best known for his multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
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fighter pilot ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
NASA mission medals
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military decorations from the United States Air Force ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Air Force Test Pilot School
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linked to:
United States Air Force Test Pilot School
Georgia Institute of Technology ⓘ United States Air Force Academy ⓘ |
| employer |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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linked to:
NASA
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| familyName | Boe ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
ⓘ
human spaceflight ⓘ test flying ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric ⓘ |
| hasExperienceIn |
fighter aircraft operations
ⓘ
flight test operations ⓘ spacecraft operations ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
serving as a pilot on multiple Space Shuttle missions
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transitioning from U.S. Air Force test pilot to NASA astronaut ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Space Shuttle commander
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Space Shuttle pilot ⓘ |
| notableWork | piloting Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
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fighter pilot ⓘ military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participantIn | International Space Station assembly and resupply missions ⓘ |
| positionHeld | NASA astronaut ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronautBy | NASA ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-126
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STS-133 ⓘ |
| wasOnBoard |
Space Shuttle Discovery
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Endeavour ⓘ |
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: Eric A. Boe Description of subject: Eric A. Boe is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force fighter and test pilot who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.