Vostok programme
E209610
The Vostok programme was the Soviet Union’s pioneering human spaceflight project that launched the first person, Yuri Gagarin, into orbit in 1961.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vostok program | 12 |
| Vostok programme canonical | 7 |
| Vostok launch vehicle program | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1855049 — 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: Vostok programme Context triple: [Vostok-K rocket, partOf, Vostok programme]
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A.
Soviet space program
The Soviet space program was the government-led initiative of the USSR that pioneered early space exploration, achieving milestones such as launching the first artificial satellite and the first human into space.
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B.
Vostok 1
Vostok 1 was the Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight, marking humanity’s inaugural journey into outer space in 1961.
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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.
Vostok-K rocket
The Vostok-K rocket was a Soviet launch vehicle that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight in history.
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E.
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 and marking the beginning of the space age.
- 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: Vostok programme Target entity description: The Vostok programme was the Soviet Union’s pioneering human spaceflight project that launched the first person, Yuri Gagarin, into orbit in 1961.
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A.
Soviet space program
The Soviet space program was the government-led initiative of the USSR that pioneered early space exploration, achieving milestones such as launching the first artificial satellite and the first human into space.
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B.
Vostok 1
Vostok 1 was the Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight, marking humanity’s inaugural journey into outer space in 1961.
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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.
Vostok-K rocket
The Vostok-K rocket was a Soviet launch vehicle that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight in history.
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E.
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 and marking the beginning of the space age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Vostok programme Description of subject: The Vostok programme was the Soviet Union’s pioneering human spaceflight project that launched the first person, Yuri Gagarin, into orbit in 1961.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Vostok program
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Vostok program
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Vostok program
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Vostok 1
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Vostok 6
this entity surface form:
Vostok program
subject surface form:
Vostok-L
this entity surface form:
Vostok program
this entity surface form:
Vostok program
this entity surface form:
Vostok program
this entity surface form:
Vostok program
this entity surface form:
Vostok program
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Vostok launch vehicle program
this entity surface form:
Vostok program