Apollo 10
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Apollo 10 was a 1969 NASA mission that served as a full dress rehearsal for the first Moon landing, testing all lunar operations except the actual touchdown.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apollo 10 canonical | 17 |
| Apollo 10 (backup pad role) | 1 |
| Apollo 10 mission | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1260964 — 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 10 Context triple: [Apollo 11, precededBy, Apollo 10]
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A.
Apollo 12
Apollo 12 was NASA’s second crewed mission to land humans on the Moon, notable for its precise landing near the Surveyor 3 probe in November 1969.
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B.
Apollo 14
Apollo 14 was NASA’s 1971 crewed mission that successfully returned astronauts to the Moon, notable for precision lunar landing and extensive surface exploration following the Apollo 13 accident.
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C.
Gemini 12
Gemini 12 was the final crewed mission of NASA’s Gemini program, notable for successfully advancing spacewalk techniques and rendezvous/docking procedures that paved the way for Apollo lunar missions.
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D.
Apollo 8
Apollo 8 was the 1968 NASA mission that first carried humans into orbit around the Moon, marking a pivotal milestone in the space race and lunar exploration.
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E.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the historic 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon and safely returned them to Earth.
- 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 10 Target entity description: Apollo 10 was a 1969 NASA mission that served as a full dress rehearsal for the first Moon landing, testing all lunar operations except the actual touchdown.
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A.
Apollo 12
Apollo 12 was NASA’s second crewed mission to land humans on the Moon, notable for its precise landing near the Surveyor 3 probe in November 1969.
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B.
Apollo 14
Apollo 14 was NASA’s 1971 crewed mission that successfully returned astronauts to the Moon, notable for precision lunar landing and extensive surface exploration following the Apollo 13 accident.
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C.
Gemini 12
Gemini 12 was the final crewed mission of NASA’s Gemini program, notable for successfully advancing spacewalk techniques and rendezvous/docking procedures that paved the way for Apollo lunar missions.
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D.
Apollo 8
Apollo 8 was the 1968 NASA mission that first carried humans into orbit around the Moon, marking a pivotal milestone in the space race and lunar exploration.
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E.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the historic 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon and safely returned them to Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apollo program mission
ⓘ
crewed spaceflight ⓘ |
| achieved | first crewed flight of Lunar Module in lunar orbit ⓘ |
| capsuleRecovery | Pacific Ocean splashdown ⓘ |
| commander |
Thomas Stafford
ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas P. Stafford
|
| commandModule | Charlie Brown ⓘ |
| commandModuleCallsign | Charlie Brown ⓘ |
| commandModulePilot | John W. Young ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewMember |
Eugene Cernan
ⓘ
surface form:
Eugene A. Cernan
John W. Young ⓘ Thomas Stafford ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas P. Stafford
|
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| destination | Moon ⓘ |
| didNotInclude | lunar surface landing ⓘ |
| followedBy | Apollo 11 ⓘ |
| launchCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| launchDate | 1969-05-18 ⓘ |
| launchLocation | Kennedy Space Center ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B ⓘ |
| launchState | Florida ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Saturn V ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| lunarModule | Snoopy ⓘ |
| lunarModuleCallsign | Snoopy ⓘ |
| lunarModuleManufacturer |
Grumman
ⓘ
surface form:
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
|
| lunarModulePilot |
Eugene Cernan
ⓘ
surface form:
Eugene A. Cernan
|
| lunarPericynthionAltitude | about 15.6 kilometers above lunar surface ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 8 days 3 minutes ⓘ |
| missionPhaseTested |
lunar module descent to low lunar altitude
ⓘ
lunar module separation and rendezvous ⓘ lunar orbit operations ⓘ |
| missionRole |
dress rehearsal for first Moon landing
ⓘ
test of all lunar operations except landing ⓘ |
| missionType | lunar orbit mission ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitType | lunar orbit ⓘ |
| precededBy | Apollo 9 ⓘ |
| primaryObjective | qualify the Lunar Module for Apollo 11 landing mission ⓘ |
| program | Apollo program ⓘ |
| recoveryOperator |
United States Navy
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surface form:
U.S. Navy
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| returnDate | 1969-05-26 ⓘ |
| secondaryObjective |
photograph Apollo 11 landing sites
ⓘ
test navigation and docking in lunar orbit ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraftManufacturer |
Rockwell International
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surface form:
North American Rockwell
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| spacecraftType |
Apollo Lunar Module
ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo CSM and LM
|
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 10 Description of subject: Apollo 10 was a 1969 NASA mission that served as a full dress rehearsal for the first Moon landing, testing all lunar operations except the actual touchdown.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Apollo 10 (backup pad role)
this entity surface form:
Apollo 10 mission
subject surface form:
Launch Pad 39B