Pete Worden
E653622
NASA official
SETI advocate
United States Air Force officer
astrophysicist
human
space industry executive
Pete Worden is an American astrophysicist, retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, and former director of NASA’s Ames Research Center who now leads major private space and SETI-related ventures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pete Worden canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7272801 — 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: Pete Worden Context triple: [Breakthrough Initiatives, keyPerson, Pete Worden]
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A.
Michael J. Massimino
Michael J. Massimino is a former NASA astronaut and engineer best known for his space shuttle missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope and for later appearing as himself on the TV show "The Big Bang Theory."
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B.
Matt Mason
Matt Mason is a young survivor and the son of resistance leader Tom Mason in the post-apocalyptic science fiction TV series "Falling Skies."
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C.
Daniel M. Tani
Daniel M. Tani is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent extended time aboard the International Space Station.
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D.
Luca Parmitano
Luca Parmitano is an Italian astronaut and test pilot with the European Space Agency who has flown multiple missions to the International Space Station and served as its commander.
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E.
James F. Bell III
James F. Bell III is a planetary scientist and astronomer known for leading camera and imaging investigations on NASA Mars missions, including serving as principal investigator for the Mastcam-Z instrument on the Perseverance rover.
- 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: Pete Worden Target entity description: Pete Worden is an American astrophysicist, retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, and former director of NASA’s Ames Research Center who now leads major private space and SETI-related ventures.
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A.
Michael J. Massimino
Michael J. Massimino is a former NASA astronaut and engineer best known for his space shuttle missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope and for later appearing as himself on the TV show "The Big Bang Theory."
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B.
Matt Mason
Matt Mason is a young survivor and the son of resistance leader Tom Mason in the post-apocalyptic science fiction TV series "Falling Skies."
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C.
Daniel M. Tani
Daniel M. Tani is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent extended time aboard the International Space Station.
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D.
Luca Parmitano
Luca Parmitano is an Italian astronaut and test pilot with the European Space Agency who has flown multiple missions to the International Space Station and served as its commander.
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E.
James F. Bell III
James F. Bell III is a planetary scientist and astronomer known for leading camera and imaging investigations on NASA Mars missions, including serving as principal investigator for the Mastcam-Z instrument on the Perseverance rover.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA official
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SETI advocate ⓘ United States Air Force officer ⓘ astrophysicist ⓘ human ⓘ space industry executive ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Arizona
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University of Michigan ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA Ames Research Center
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linked to:
Ames Research Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration ⓘ
linked to:
NASA
United States Air Force ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
astronomy
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astrophysics ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
SETI
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astrophysics ⓘ space policy ⓘ space science ⓘ |
| genre | scientific writing ⓘ |
| givenName |
Peter
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Simon ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
management of research centers
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public outreach on space exploration ⓘ space policy advising ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocating innovative, low-cost space missions
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bridging government and private space sectors ⓘ supporting SETI research ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| name | Simon Peter Worden ⓘ |
| nickname | Pete ⓘ |
| notableIdea | use of small satellites for space science ⓘ |
| notableProject |
collaboration between NASA and private space companies
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support of Breakthrough Listen SETI program ⓘ |
| notableWork |
advocacy for private space ventures
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leadership of NASA Ames Research Center ⓘ promotion of small satellites and CubeSats ⓘ support for Breakthrough Initiatives ⓘ |
| occupation |
aerospace executive
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astrophysicist ⓘ military officer ⓘ research administrator ⓘ space scientist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | director of NASA Ames Research Center ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Moffett Field, California
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Silicon Valley ⓘ |
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: Pete Worden Description of subject: Pete Worden is an American astrophysicist, retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, and former director of NASA’s Ames Research Center who now leads major private space and SETI-related ventures.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.