Johnson Space Center

E14335

NASA center spaceflight center

Johnson Space Center is NASA’s primary hub for human spaceflight operations, astronaut training, and mission control in Houston, Texas.

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All labels observed (18)

Label	Occurrences
NASA Johnson Space Center	46
Johnson Space Center canonical	40
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center	7
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center	4
Manned Spacecraft Center	4
Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center	3
Mission Control Center Houston	3
Johnson Space Center Mission Control Center	2
Astronaut Training Facility	1
Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas	1
Mission Control Center	1
Mission Control Center in Houston	1
NASA Johnson Space Center complex	1
NASA Johnson Space Center training complex	1
NASA Mission Control Center	1
Onizuka Village, Johnson Space Center	1
Space Center Houston	1
Space Vehicle Mockup Facility	1

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]

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ⓘ spaceflight center ⓘ
abbreviation	JSC ⓘ
associatedWithProgram	Apollo program ⓘ Artemis program ⓘ International Space Station program ⓘ NASA Space Shuttle program ⓘ surface form: Space Shuttle program
cityServed	Houston ⓘ
continent	North America ⓘ
coordinates	29.5593°N 95.0890°W ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
employs	astronauts ⓘ engineers ⓘ flight controllers ⓘ scientists ⓘ
formerName	Johnson Space Center self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Manned Spacecraft Center
hasFacility	Johnson Space Center self-linksurface differs ⓘ 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
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 ⓘ