Johnson Space Center
E14335
Johnson Space Center is NASA’s primary hub for human spaceflight operations, astronaut training, and mission control in Houston, Texas.
All labels observed (18)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T93036 — 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: Johnson Space Center Context triple: [NASA, operates, Johnson Space Center]
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A.
Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center is NASA’s primary launch complex for human spaceflight and robotic missions, located on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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B.
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center is a major NASA research facility in California known for its contributions to aeronautics, space exploration, and advanced computing technologies.
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C.
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center is a NASA field center in California that conducts cutting-edge aeronautics and spaceflight research, flight testing, and technology development.
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D.
Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
The Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory was a major NACA research center focused on advancing aircraft and rocket propulsion technologies, later becoming NASA's Glenn Research Center.
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E.
NASA
NASA is the United States government agency responsible for the nation’s civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research.
- 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: Johnson Space Center Target entity description: Johnson Space Center is NASA’s primary hub for human spaceflight operations, astronaut training, and mission control in Houston, Texas.
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A.
Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center is NASA’s primary launch complex for human spaceflight and robotic missions, located on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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B.
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center is a major NASA research facility in California known for its contributions to aeronautics, space exploration, and advanced computing technologies.
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C.
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center is a NASA field center in California that conducts cutting-edge aeronautics and spaceflight research, flight testing, and technology development.
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D.
Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
The Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory was a major NACA research center focused on advancing aircraft and rocket propulsion technologies, later becoming NASA's Glenn Research Center.
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E.
NASA
NASA is the United States government agency responsible for the nation’s civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA center
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spaceflight center ⓘ |
| abbreviation | JSC ⓘ |
| associatedWithProgram |
Apollo program
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Artemis program ⓘ International Space Station program ⓘ NASA Space Shuttle program ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
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| cityServed | Houston ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| coordinates | 29.5593°N 95.0890°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| employs |
astronauts
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engineers ⓘ flight controllers ⓘ scientists ⓘ |
| formerName |
Johnson Space Center
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Manned Spacecraft Center
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| hasFacility |
Johnson Space Center
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center
Johnson Space Center self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mission Control Center
Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory ⓘ Rocket Park ⓘ Sonny Carter Training Facility ⓘ Johnson Space Center self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Space Vehicle Mockup Facility
|
| hasHeritage |
Project Apollo mission operations
ⓘ
Gemini program ⓘ
surface form:
Project Gemini mission operations
Skylab mission operations ⓘ NASA Space Shuttle program ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle mission operations
|
| hasVisitorCenter |
Johnson Space Center
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Space Center Houston
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| headquartersLocation |
Houston
ⓘ
surface form:
Houston, Texas
|
| inception | 1961 ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Texas ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| location |
Houston
ⓘ
surface form:
Houston, Texas
|
| manages | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Lyndon B. Johnson ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| ownedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
astronaut training
ⓘ
human spaceflight operations ⓘ mission control ⓘ |
| regionServed | United States human spaceflight ⓘ |
| renamed | 1963 ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
International Space Station mission operations
ⓘ
Orion spacecraft mission operations ⓘ astronaut medical operations ⓘ astronaut selection ⓘ flight control for crewed missions ⓘ spaceflight training ⓘ |
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: Johnson Space Center Description of subject: Johnson Space Center is NASA’s primary hub for human spaceflight operations, astronaut training, and mission control in Houston, Texas.
Referenced by (119)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
subject surface form:
NASA
this entity surface form:
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center
this entity surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center
this entity surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
Mission Control Center Houston
subject surface form:
OSIRIS-REx
this entity surface form:
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center
this entity surface form:
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center
this entity surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in coordination with USAF
→
coordinatedAgency
→
Johnson Space Center
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this entity surface form:
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in coordination with USAF
→
primaryNASAcenter
→
Johnson Space Center
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Manned Spacecraft Center
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in coordination with USAF
→
primaryNASAcenterCurrentName
→
Johnson Space Center
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this entity surface form:
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas
this entity surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
Manned Spacecraft Center
this entity surface form:
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center
subject surface form:
Never Panic Early
this entity surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
this entity surface form:
Mission Control Center Houston
this entity surface form:
Johnson Space Center Mission Control Center
this entity surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center