FGB Zarya
E183893
FGB Zarya is the first module of the International Space Station, serving as an initial control, propulsion, and storage unit launched in 1998.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FGB Zarya canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1639137 — 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: FGB Zarya Context triple: [STS-88, deliveredModule, FGB Zarya]
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A.
Soyuz spacecraft
The Soyuz spacecraft is a long-serving Russian crewed vehicle used to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
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B.
Cygnus spacecraft
The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
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C.
Voskhod spacecraft
The Voskhod spacecraft was a Soviet crewed space capsule that succeeded Vostok and enabled milestones such as the first multi-person crewed mission and the first spacewalk during the early space race.
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D.
Titan IIIE
Titan IIIE was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, equipped with a Centaur upper stage and used in the 1970s to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 1 on interplanetary trajectories.
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E.
RV Vityaz
RV Vityaz was a Soviet research vessel renowned for its deep-sea oceanographic expeditions, including pioneering surveys of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
- 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: FGB Zarya Target entity description: FGB Zarya is the first module of the International Space Station, serving as an initial control, propulsion, and storage unit launched in 1998.
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A.
Soyuz spacecraft
The Soyuz spacecraft is a long-serving Russian crewed vehicle used to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
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B.
Cygnus spacecraft
The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
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C.
Voskhod spacecraft
The Voskhod spacecraft was a Soviet crewed space capsule that succeeded Vostok and enabled milestones such as the first multi-person crewed mission and the first spacewalk during the early space race.
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D.
Titan IIIE
Titan IIIE was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, equipped with a Centaur upper stage and used in the 1970s to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 1 on interplanetary trajectories.
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E.
RV Vityaz
RV Vityaz was a Soviet research vessel renowned for its deep-sea oceanographic expeditions, including pioneering surveys of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Functional Cargo Block
ⓘ
International Space Station module ⓘ space station module ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
FGB
ⓘ
Zarya Functional Cargo Block ⓘ
surface form:
Functional Cargo Block Zarya
ISS module Zarya ⓘ Zarya ⓘ |
| attachedTo |
International Space Station
ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Orbital Segment of the ISS
|
| builtFor | NASA ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | TKS spacecraft FGB design ⓘ |
| designBureau |
Sergei Korolev design bureau
ⓘ
surface form:
S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
|
| diameter | 4.11 m ⓘ |
| dockingPorts | multiple docking ports for visiting spacecraft and modules ⓘ |
| firstISSModule | true ⓘ |
| function |
attitude control
ⓘ
cargo storage ⓘ electrical power supply ⓘ guidance and navigation ⓘ orbit reboost ⓘ propulsion ⓘ |
| funding | funded by the United States ⓘ |
| inclination | 51.6 degrees ⓘ |
| joinedTo |
Unity (Node 1)
ⓘ
surface form:
Unity Node 1
|
| joinedToDate | 1998-12-06 ⓘ |
| launchContractor | Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center ⓘ |
| launchCountry | Kazakhstan ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1998-11-20 ⓘ |
| launchedForProgram | International Space Station program ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome
ⓘ
surface form:
Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 81/23
|
| launchVehicle |
Proton rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
Proton-K rocket
|
| length | 12.56 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center ⓘ |
| mass | 19323 kg ⓘ |
| operator | Roscosmos ⓘ |
| orbit |
low Earth orbit
ⓘ
surface form:
Low Earth orbit
|
| orbitPeriod | approximately 92 minutes ⓘ |
| owner | Roscosmos ⓘ |
| partOf | International Space Station ⓘ |
| powerGeneration | 3 kW ⓘ |
| pressurizedVolume | 71.5 m3 ⓘ |
| program | International Space Station ⓘ |
| role |
control module
ⓘ
propulsion module ⓘ storage module ⓘ |
| solarArraySpan | 24.4 m ⓘ |
| spacecraftType |
FGB
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surface form:
FGB-1
|
| status | in service ⓘ |
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: FGB Zarya Description of subject: FGB Zarya is the first module of the International Space Station, serving as an initial control, propulsion, and storage unit launched in 1998.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.