Zarya
E183891
Zarya is the first module of the International Space Station, providing initial power, propulsion, and guidance functions for the orbiting laboratory.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zarya canonical | 8 |
| Zarya (FGB) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1639135 — 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: Zarya Context triple: [STS-88, deliveredModule, Zarya]
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A.
Beryl Commando
Beryl Commando is a compact carbine variant of the Polish Beryl assault rifle designed for close-quarters combat and specialized military use.
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B.
Sonya
Sonya is a gentle, selfless young woman in Leo Tolstoy’s novel "War and Peace," known for her unrequited love and quiet loyalty to the Rostov family.
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C.
Ashe Marson
Ashe Marson is a fictional young man-about-town and amateur sleuth created by P. G. Wodehouse, best known as one of the central characters in the comic novel "Something Fresh."
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D.
Storm Shadow
Storm Shadow is a long-range, air-launched cruise missile designed for precision strikes against high-value, hardened targets.
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E.
Yuri
Yuri is a common Russian given name, famously borne by Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space.
- 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: Zarya Target entity description: Zarya is the first module of the International Space Station, providing initial power, propulsion, and guidance functions for the orbiting laboratory.
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A.
Beryl Commando
Beryl Commando is a compact carbine variant of the Polish Beryl assault rifle designed for close-quarters combat and specialized military use.
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B.
Sonya
Sonya is a gentle, selfless young woman in Leo Tolstoy’s novel "War and Peace," known for her unrequited love and quiet loyalty to the Rostov family.
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C.
Ashe Marson
Ashe Marson is a fictional young man-about-town and amateur sleuth created by P. G. Wodehouse, best known as one of the central characters in the comic novel "Something Fresh."
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D.
Storm Shadow
Storm Shadow is a long-range, air-launched cruise missile designed for precision strikes against high-value, hardened targets.
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E.
Yuri
Yuri is a common Russian given name, famously borne by Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Functional Cargo Block
ⓘ
International Space Station module ⓘ space station module ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
FGB
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Functional Cargo Block ⓘ ISS module Zarya ⓘ |
| builtUnderContractFor | NASA ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Unity (Node 1)
ⓘ
surface form:
Unity module
Zvezda service module ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| diameter | about 4.1 meters ⓘ |
| dockedWith |
Unity (Node 1)
ⓘ
surface form:
Unity module
Zvezda service module ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1998 ⓘ |
| firstISSModule | true ⓘ |
| fundedBy |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| guidanceSystem | onboard computers and gyroscopes ⓘ |
| hasDockingPorts | multiple docking ports for visiting spacecraft and modules ⓘ |
| inclination | about 51.6 degrees ⓘ |
| launchCountry | Kazakhstan ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1998-11-20 ⓘ |
| launchedBefore |
Unity (Node 1)
ⓘ
surface form:
Unity module
|
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome
ⓘ
surface form:
Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 81/23
|
| launchVehicle |
Proton rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
Proton-K rocket
|
| length | about 12.6 meters ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center ⓘ |
| mass | about 19,300 kilograms ⓘ |
| operator |
NASA
ⓘ
Roscosmos ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod | about 92 minutes ⓘ |
| orbitsEarth | yes ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| partOf | International Space Station ⓘ |
| powerGeneration | about 3 kilowatts initially ⓘ |
| powerSystem | solar arrays and batteries ⓘ |
| powerTransferCapability | can transfer electrical power to other ISS modules ⓘ |
| pressurizedVolume | about 71 cubic meters ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
provide guidance and attitude control for the ISS
ⓘ
provide initial power for the ISS ⓘ provide propulsion for the ISS ⓘ provide storage for propellant, cargo, and equipment ⓘ |
| propellantStorage | stores fuel for reboost and attitude control ⓘ |
| propulsionSystem | main engines and attitude control thrusters ⓘ |
| providesPropellantTo | Zvezda service module ⓘ |
| roleInISSAssembly | served as initial control module for early ISS configuration ⓘ |
| solarArraySpan | about 10.7 meters ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
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: Zarya Description of subject: Zarya is the first module of the International Space Station, providing initial power, propulsion, and guidance functions for the orbiting laboratory.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Zarya (FGB)