STS-38
E492452
STS-38 was a classified 1990 U.S. Space Shuttle mission primarily dedicated to deploying a Department of Defense payload in low Earth orbit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-38 canonical | 5 |
| STS-38 crew | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5050260 — 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-38 Context triple: [Space Shuttle Atlantis, mission, STS-38]
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A.
STS-87
STS-87 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and solar physics experiments, notable for including astronaut Kalpana Chawla among its crew.
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B.
STS-135
STS-135 was the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, flown by Atlantis in 2011 to resupply the International Space Station and conclude the shuttle era.
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C.
STS-97
STS-97 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that delivered and installed the first set of U.S.-built solar arrays to the International Space Station, significantly increasing the station’s power capacity.
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D.
STS-83
STS-83 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity science research as part of the Microgravity Science Laboratory program.
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E.
STS-99
STS-99 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that conducted the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission to create a highly detailed 3D map of most of Earth’s land surface.
- 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-38 Target entity description: STS-38 was a classified 1990 U.S. Space Shuttle mission primarily dedicated to deploying a Department of Defense payload in low Earth orbit.
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A.
STS-87
STS-87 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and solar physics experiments, notable for including astronaut Kalpana Chawla among its crew.
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B.
STS-135
STS-135 was the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, flown by Atlantis in 2011 to resupply the International Space Station and conclude the shuttle era.
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C.
STS-97
STS-97 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that delivered and installed the first set of U.S.-built solar arrays to the International Space Station, significantly increasing the station’s power capacity.
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D.
STS-83
STS-83 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity science research as part of the Microgravity Science Laboratory program.
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E.
STS-99
STS-99 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2000 that conducted the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission to create a highly detailed 3D map of most of Earth’s land surface.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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-38 Description of subject: STS-38 was a classified 1990 U.S. Space Shuttle mission primarily dedicated to deploying a Department of Defense payload in low Earth orbit.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: STS-38