Janet L. Kavandi
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Janet L. Kavandi is a former NASA astronaut and engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and later served as director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Janet L. Kavandi canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11346427 — 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: Janet L. Kavandi Context triple: [STS-99, missionSpecialist, Janet L. Kavandi]
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A.
Mary L. Mandola
Mary L. Mandola was the wife of American science fiction author Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins).
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B.
Elizabeth J. Feinler
Elizabeth J. Feinler is an American information scientist best known for leading early internet directory and naming services, including managing the first WHOIS and domain name registries.
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C.
Christine M. Riordan
Christine M. Riordan is an American academic leader and management scholar known for serving as president of Adelphi University and for her work on leadership, diversity, and organizational change.
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D.
Susan E. Eichhorn
Susan E. Eichhorn is a researcher and scientific author known for coauthoring scholarly work with prominent botanist Peter H. Raven.
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E.
Deborah Koons
Deborah Koons is an American documentary filmmaker and environmental activist best known for her marriage to Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia.
- 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: Janet L. Kavandi Target entity description: Janet L. Kavandi is a former NASA astronaut and engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and later served as director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center.
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A.
Mary L. Mandola
Mary L. Mandola was the wife of American science fiction author Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins).
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B.
Elizabeth J. Feinler
Elizabeth J. Feinler is an American information scientist best known for leading early internet directory and naming services, including managing the first WHOIS and domain name registries.
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C.
Christine M. Riordan
Christine M. Riordan is an American academic leader and management scholar known for serving as president of Adelphi University and for her work on leadership, diversity, and organizational change.
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D.
Susan E. Eichhorn
Susan E. Eichhorn is a researcher and scientific author known for coauthoring scholarly work with prominent botanist Peter H. Raven.
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E.
Deborah Koons
Deborah Koons is an American documentary filmmaker and environmental activist best known for her marriage to Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
aerospace engineer ⓘ engineer ⓘ human ⓘ scientist ⓘ woman ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor’s degree in chemistry
ⓘ
Master’s degree in chemistry ⓘ PhD in engineering ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Missouri Southern State College
ⓘ
linked to:
Missouri Southern State University
Missouri University of Science and Technology ⓘ University of Washington ⓘ |
| employer |
NASA
ⓘ
NASA Glenn Research Center ⓘ
linked to:
Glenn Research Center
Sierra Space ⓘ
linked to:
Sierra Nevada Corporation
|
| familyName | Kavandi ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
ⓘ
human spaceflight operations ⓘ space technology development ⓘ spaceflight ⓘ |
| givenName | Janet ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
flew on three Space Shuttle missions
ⓘ
served as director of NASA Glenn Research Center ⓘ |
| notableRole | director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Space Shuttle mission STS-104
ⓘ
linked to:
STS-104
Space Shuttle mission STS-91 ⓘ Space Shuttle mission STS-99 ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
engineer ⓘ |
| operator |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Discovery ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour ⓘ |
| participantIn |
STS-104
ⓘ
STS-91 ⓘ STS-99 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of NASA Glenn Research Center
ⓘ
executive at Sierra Space ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
STS-104
ⓘ
STS-91 ⓘ STS-99 ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cleveland, Ohio
ⓘ
Houston, Texas ⓘ
linked to:
Houston
|
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: Janet L. Kavandi Description of subject: Janet L. Kavandi is a former NASA astronaut and engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions and later served as director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.