Xichang Satellite Launch Center
E183986
Xichang Satellite Launch Center is one of China’s primary spaceports, used mainly for launching communications and navigation satellites into geostationary orbit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Xichang Satellite Launch Center canonical | 2 |
| Xichang Launch Center | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1592770 — 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: Xichang Satellite Launch Center Context triple: [China National Space Administration, usesLaunchSite, Xichang Satellite Launch Center]
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A.
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is China’s oldest and largest spaceport, located in the Gobi Desert and primarily used for launching crewed Shenzhou missions and various satellites into orbit.
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B.
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center is a major Chinese spaceport in Shanxi province primarily used for launching polar-orbiting and sun-synchronous satellites.
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C.
Tianhe
Tianhe is a town in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, best known for hosting Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, a major air transport hub in central China.
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D.
China Manned Space Agency
The China Manned Space Agency is the government body responsible for planning, developing, and operating China’s human spaceflight programs, including the Tiangong space station.
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E.
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome is the historic Soviet and now Russian-operated spaceport in Kazakhstan from which the first human spaceflight, carrying Yuri Gagarin, was launched.
- 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: Xichang Satellite Launch Center Target entity description: Xichang Satellite Launch Center is one of China’s primary spaceports, used mainly for launching communications and navigation satellites into geostationary orbit.
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A.
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is China’s oldest and largest spaceport, located in the Gobi Desert and primarily used for launching crewed Shenzhou missions and various satellites into orbit.
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B.
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center is a major Chinese spaceport in Shanxi province primarily used for launching polar-orbiting and sun-synchronous satellites.
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C.
Tianhe
Tianhe is a town in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, best known for hosting Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, a major air transport hub in central China.
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D.
China Manned Space Agency
The China Manned Space Agency is the government body responsible for planning, developing, and operating China’s human spaceflight programs, including the Tiangong space station.
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E.
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome is the historic Soviet and now Russian-operated spaceport in Kazakhstan from which the first human spaceflight, carrying Yuri Gagarin, was launched.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rocket launch site
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satellite launch center ⓘ spaceport ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
XSLC
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Xichang Satellite Launch Center ⓘ
surface form:
Xichang Launch Center
|
| constructionStarted | late 1960s ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| environment | mountainous terrain ⓘ |
| firstLaunchDate | 1984 ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
integration and test buildings
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launch control center ⓘ payload processing facilities ⓘ propellant storage facilities ⓘ tracking and telemetry stations ⓘ |
| hasLaunchPads | multiple launch complexes ⓘ |
| launchVehicleUsed |
Long March 2C
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Long March 2E ⓘ Long March 3 ⓘ Long March 3 ⓘ
surface form:
Long March 3A
Long March 3B ⓘ Long March 3C ⓘ Long March 8 (some missions) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Sichuan Province
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Southwest China ⓘ Xichang ⓘ |
| notableFor |
launching Chinese communications satellites
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launching many Beidou navigation satellites ⓘ |
| oneOf | China's three main inland launch sites ⓘ |
| operator |
China National Space Administration
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People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force ⓘ |
| partOf |
China National Space Administration
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surface form:
Chinese space program
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| primaryFunction | geostationary transfer orbit launches ⓘ |
| purpose | support China's space infrastructure for communications and navigation ⓘ |
| relatedFacility |
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
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Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center ⓘ Wenchang Space Launch Site ⓘ
surface form:
Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site
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| runBy |
China
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surface form:
People's Republic of China
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| specializesInOrbitType |
geostationary orbit
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geostationary transfer orbit ⓘ |
| supportsMissionType |
civilian space missions
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commercial satellite launches ⓘ military space missions ⓘ |
| timeZone | China Standard Time ⓘ |
| usedFor |
launching Beidou navigation satellites
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launching communications satellites ⓘ launching experimental satellites ⓘ launching navigation satellites ⓘ launching satellites to geostationary orbit ⓘ launching weather satellites ⓘ |
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: Xichang Satellite Launch Center Description of subject: Xichang Satellite Launch Center is one of China’s primary spaceports, used mainly for launching communications and navigation satellites into geostationary orbit.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Xichang Launch Center