Apollo 11
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Apollo 11 was the historic 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon and safely returned them to Earth.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apollo 11 canonical | 53 |
| Apollo 11 Moon landing | 10 |
| Apollo 11 mission | 3 |
| Apollo 11 Launch | 1 |
| Apollo 11 commander | 1 |
| Apollo 11 lunar surface EVA | 1 |
| Apollo 11 mission insignia | 1 |
| Apollo 11 mission operations | 1 |
| Apollo 11 mission tracking | 1 |
| The Apollo 11 astronauts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T93057 — 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: Apollo 11 Context triple: [NASA, launchedMission, Apollo 11]
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A.
Apollo program
The Apollo program was NASA’s landmark human spaceflight initiative that successfully landed astronauts on the Moon and returned them safely to Earth during the 1960s and early 1970s.
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B.
Gemini program
The Gemini program was NASA’s second human spaceflight project in the 1960s, designed to develop critical space travel techniques such as orbital rendezvous, docking, and long-duration missions that paved the way for the Apollo Moon landings.
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C.
Mercury program
The Mercury program was the United States' first human spaceflight initiative, designed to send American astronauts into space and orbit Earth during the early 1960s.
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D.
Artemis program
The Artemis program is NASA’s ongoing initiative to return humans to the Moon, establish a sustainable lunar presence, and prepare for future crewed missions to Mars.
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E.
Saturn V
Saturn V was a powerful American heavy-lift launch vehicle used during the Apollo and Skylab programs to send astronauts and payloads into space, including missions to the Moon.
- 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: Apollo 11 Target entity description: Apollo 11 was the historic 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon and safely returned them to Earth.
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A.
Apollo program
The Apollo program was NASA’s landmark human spaceflight initiative that successfully landed astronauts on the Moon and returned them safely to Earth during the 1960s and early 1970s.
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B.
Gemini program
The Gemini program was NASA’s second human spaceflight project in the 1960s, designed to develop critical space travel techniques such as orbital rendezvous, docking, and long-duration missions that paved the way for the Apollo Moon landings.
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C.
Mercury program
The Mercury program was the United States' first human spaceflight initiative, designed to send American astronauts into space and orbit Earth during the early 1960s.
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D.
Artemis program
The Artemis program is NASA’s ongoing initiative to return humans to the Moon, establish a sustainable lunar presence, and prepare for future crewed missions to Mars.
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E.
Saturn V
Saturn V was a powerful American heavy-lift launch vehicle used during the Apollo and Skylab programs to send astronauts and payloads into space, including missions to the Moon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA space mission
ⓘ
crewed spaceflight mission ⓘ lunar landing mission ⓘ |
| backupCommander | Jim Lovell ⓘ |
| backupCommandModulePilot | William Anders ⓘ |
| backupLunarModulePilot | Fred Haise ⓘ |
| callSignCommandModule | Columbia ⓘ |
| callSignLunarModule | Eagle ⓘ |
| commander |
Neil A. Armstrong
ⓘ
surface form:
Neil Armstrong
|
| commandModule | Columbia ⓘ |
| commandModulePilot | Michael Collins ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewMember |
Buzz Aldrin
ⓘ
Michael Collins ⓘ Neil A. Armstrong ⓘ
surface form:
Neil Armstrong
|
| crewQuarantineDuration | 21 days after splashdown ⓘ |
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| distanceTraveled |
about 1.53 million kilometers
ⓘ
about 952000 miles ⓘ |
| evaCount | 1 lunar surface EVA ⓘ |
| evaDuration | about 2 hours 31 minutes ⓘ |
| firstHumanMoonLanding | true ⓘ |
| followedBy | Apollo 12 ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | first mission to land humans on the Moon and return them safely to Earth ⓘ |
| landingMethod | ocean splashdown ⓘ |
| landingSite |
Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
surface form:
North Pacific Ocean
|
| launchDate | 1969-07-16 ⓘ |
| launchLocation |
Merritt Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Merritt Island, Florida, United States
|
| launchSite |
Kennedy Space Center
ⓘ
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Saturn V
ⓘ
Saturn V ⓘ
surface form:
Saturn V SA-506
|
| lunarLandingCoordinates | 0.67408°N 23.47297°E ⓘ |
| lunarLandingDate | 1969-07-20 ⓘ |
| lunarLandingSite |
Mare Tranquillitatis
ⓘ
Mare Tranquillitatis ⓘ
surface form:
Sea of Tranquility
|
| lunarModule | Eagle ⓘ |
| lunarModulePilot | Buzz Aldrin ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 8 days 3 hours 18 minutes ⓘ |
| missionDurationHours | 195.3 ⓘ |
| missionNumber | 11 ⓘ |
| notableQuote |
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
ⓘ
The Eagle has landed. ⓘ |
| objective |
collect lunar samples
ⓘ
demonstrate capability to land humans on the Moon ⓘ deploy scientific experiments on the lunar surface ⓘ perform a crewed lunar landing and return safely to Earth ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| precededBy | Apollo 10 ⓘ |
| primeContractorCommandModule |
Rockwell International
ⓘ
surface form:
North American Rockwell
|
| primeContractorLunarModule |
Grumman
ⓘ
surface form:
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
|
| program | Apollo program ⓘ |
| returnRecoveryShip | USS Hornet (CV-12) ⓘ |
| samplesReturnedMass | about 21.5 kilograms ⓘ |
| serviceModule |
Apollo command and service module
ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo Service Module
|
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraft |
Apollo command and service module
ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo 11 spacecraft
|
| spaceRaceContext | major milestone in the Cold War-era Space Race ⓘ |
| splashdownDate | 1969-07-24 ⓘ |
| status | completed ⓘ |
| televisionBroadcast | first live TV broadcast of humans on the Moon ⓘ |
| timeOnLunarSurface | about 21 hours 36 minutes ⓘ |
| worldwideViewersEstimate | hundreds of millions of people ⓘ |
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: Apollo 11 Description of subject: Apollo 11 was the historic 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon and safely returned them to Earth.
Referenced by (73)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Apollo 11 Moon landing
this entity surface form:
Apollo 11 mission operations
subject surface form:
Saturn V
this entity surface form:
Apollo 11 Moon landing
this entity surface form:
Apollo 11 Launch
this entity surface form:
Apollo 11 mission insignia
this entity surface form:
Apollo 11 Moon landing
this entity surface form:
Apollo 11 mission
this entity surface form:
Apollo 11 mission tracking