Mercury-Atlas 9
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Mercury-Atlas 9 was NASA’s final crewed Mercury mission, during which astronaut Gordon Cooper completed the longest and last solo orbital flight of the program in 1963.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mercury-Atlas 9 canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1116608 — 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: Mercury-Atlas 9 Context triple: [Mercury program, lastCrewedFlight, Mercury-Atlas 9]
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A.
Mercury-Redstone 3
Mercury-Redstone 3 was the 1961 NASA mission that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight, marking a major early milestone in human space exploration.
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B.
Gemini 11
Gemini 11 was a 1966 NASA crewed spaceflight that advanced orbital rendezvous, docking, and high-altitude operations as part of the Gemini program’s preparation for Apollo lunar missions.
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C.
Gemini 3
Gemini 3 was NASA’s first crewed Gemini spacecraft mission, flown in 1965 by astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young to test orbital maneuvering and spacecraft systems for future spaceflights.
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D.
Gemini 4
Gemini 4 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight best known for carrying out the first American spacewalk during the Gemini program.
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E.
Gemini 6A
Gemini 6A was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight that achieved the first successful rendezvous between two orbiting spacecraft during the Gemini program.
- 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: Mercury-Atlas 9 Target entity description: Mercury-Atlas 9 was NASA’s final crewed Mercury mission, during which astronaut Gordon Cooper completed the longest and last solo orbital flight of the program in 1963.
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A.
Mercury-Redstone 3
Mercury-Redstone 3 was the 1961 NASA mission that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight, marking a major early milestone in human space exploration.
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B.
Gemini 11
Gemini 11 was a 1966 NASA crewed spaceflight that advanced orbital rendezvous, docking, and high-altitude operations as part of the Gemini program’s preparation for Apollo lunar missions.
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C.
Gemini 3
Gemini 3 was NASA’s first crewed Gemini spacecraft mission, flown in 1965 by astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young to test orbital maneuvering and spacecraft systems for future spaceflights.
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D.
Gemini 4
Gemini 4 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight best known for carrying out the first American spacewalk during the Gemini program.
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E.
Gemini 6A
Gemini 6A was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight that achieved the first successful rendezvous between two orbiting spacecraft during the Gemini program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mercury program mission
ⓘ
crewed spaceflight mission ⓘ orbital spaceflight ⓘ |
| apoapsis | approximately 265 kilometers ⓘ |
| astronautFullName |
Gordon Cooper
ⓘ
surface form:
L. Gordon Cooper Jr.
|
| astronautNationality |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| callSign | Faith 7 ⓘ |
| commander | Gordon Cooper ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewMember | Gordon Cooper ⓘ |
| crewSize | 1 ⓘ |
| crewStatus | returned safely ⓘ |
| followedBy | Gemini 3 ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | marked the end of America’s first crewed spaceflight program ⓘ |
| inclination | 32.5 degrees ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1963-05-16 ⓘ |
| landingMethod | ocean splashdown ⓘ |
| landingSite | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1963-05-15 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14
ⓘ
Cape Canaveral ⓘ
surface form:
Cape Canaveral, Florida
|
| launchVehicle | Atlas LV-3B ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 34 hours 19 minutes 49 seconds ⓘ |
| missionName | Faith 7 ⓘ |
| missionObjective |
conduct scientific experiments in orbit
ⓘ
evaluate astronaut performance during prolonged spaceflight ⓘ test spacecraft systems on an extended-duration flight ⓘ |
| missionOutcome | success ⓘ |
| notableEvent | manual reentry and landing after automatic system issues ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
last U.S. solo orbital mission
ⓘ
longest Mercury mission ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 22 ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| periapsis | approximately 163 kilometers ⓘ |
| precededBy | Mercury-Atlas 8 ⓘ |
| program |
Mercury program
ⓘ
surface form:
Project Mercury
|
| recoveredBy |
United States Navy
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Navy
|
| spacecraftRecoveryBy | USS Kearsarge ⓘ |
| spacecraftSerialNumber |
Mercury spacecraft
ⓘ
surface form:
Mercury spacecraft 20
|
| spacecraftType | Mercury spacecraft ⓘ |
| wasFinalCrewedMissionOf |
Mercury program
ⓘ
surface form:
Project Mercury
|
| wasFinalMissionOf |
Mercury program
ⓘ
surface form:
Project Mercury
|
| wasFinalSoloUSOrbitalFlight | true ⓘ |
| yearOfFlight | 1963 ⓘ |
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: Mercury-Atlas 9 Description of subject: Mercury-Atlas 9 was NASA’s final crewed Mercury mission, during which astronaut Gordon Cooper completed the longest and last solo orbital flight of the program in 1963.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.