Leestma
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Leestma is a surname most notably associated with David C. Leestma, an American astronaut and former NASA official.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leestma canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11389030 — 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: Leestma Context triple: [David C. Leestma, familyName, Leestma]
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A.
Leven
Leven is a coastal town in eastern Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth in the council area of Fife.
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B.
Ederveen
Ederveen is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland, known for its rural character and location within the municipality of Ede.
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C.
Cromstrijen
Cromstrijen was a former municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland, comprising several villages on the island of Hoeksche Waard.
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D.
Raalte
Raalte is a town and municipality in the Dutch province of Overijssel, known for its agricultural surroundings and regional festivals.
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E.
De Horst
De Horst is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland, known as part of the municipality of Berg en Dal near the city of Nijmegen.
- 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: Leestma Target entity description: Leestma is a surname most notably associated with David C. Leestma, an American astronaut and former NASA official.
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A.
Leven
Leven is a coastal town in eastern Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth in the council area of Fife.
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B.
Ederveen
Ederveen is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland, known for its rural character and location within the municipality of Ede.
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C.
Cromstrijen
Cromstrijen was a former municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland, comprising several villages on the island of Hoeksche Waard.
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D.
Raalte
Raalte is a town and municipality in the Dutch province of Overijssel, known for its agricultural surroundings and regional festivals.
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E.
De Horst
De Horst is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland, known as part of the municipality of Berg en Dal near the city of Nijmegen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
United States Navy officer ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Naval Postgraduate School
ⓘ
United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Leestma ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
ⓘ
spaceflight ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin | Dutch-American ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | David C. Leestma ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant | Leestema ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Dutch ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Space Shuttle missions
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Space Shuttle program
|
| occupation |
NASA official
ⓘ
aerospace engineer ⓘ astronaut ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of Flight Crew Operations at NASA Johnson Space Center
ⓘ
Manager of the Space Shuttle Program Integration Office ⓘ |
| rank | Captain (U.S. Navy) ⓘ |
| spaceflightTime | over 22 days ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-28
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STS-41-G ⓘ STS-45 ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Netherlands
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| wasSelectedAsAstronautIn | 1980 ⓘ |
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: Leestma Description of subject: Leestma is a surname most notably associated with David C. Leestma, an American astronaut and former NASA official.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Leestma