Launch Pad 36B
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Launch Pad 36B is one of the historic launch pads at Cape Canaveral used primarily for Atlas rocket launches during the early years of the U.S. space program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Launch Pad 36B canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2431718 — 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: Launch Pad 36B Context triple: [Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36, hasPart, Launch Pad 36B]
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Launch Pad 36A
Launch Pad 36A is one of the historic launch pads at Cape Canaveral used primarily for Atlas rocket launches during the early years of the U.S. space program.
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Launch Complex 39C
Launch Complex 39C is a small launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center designed to support launches of small-class commercial and government rockets.
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Launch Complex 39
Launch Complex 39 is a major NASA launch facility at Kennedy Space Center, best known as the departure site for Apollo Moon missions and Space Shuttle flights.
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Launch pads 39A and 39B
Launch pads 39A and 39B are historic NASA launch complexes at Kennedy Space Center, famously used for Apollo Saturn V and Space Shuttle missions and now supporting modern orbital launches.
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B is a historic NASA launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast, originally built for Apollo missions and later used for Space Shuttle launches and current Artemis program flights.
- 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: Launch Pad 36B Target entity description: Launch Pad 36B is one of the historic launch pads at Cape Canaveral used primarily for Atlas rocket launches during the early years of the U.S. space program.
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Launch Pad 36A
Launch Pad 36A is one of the historic launch pads at Cape Canaveral used primarily for Atlas rocket launches during the early years of the U.S. space program.
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Launch Complex 39C
Launch Complex 39C is a small launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center designed to support launches of small-class commercial and government rockets.
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Launch Complex 39
Launch Complex 39 is a major NASA launch facility at Kennedy Space Center, best known as the departure site for Apollo Moon missions and Space Shuttle flights.
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Launch pads 39A and 39B
Launch pads 39A and 39B are historic NASA launch complexes at Kennedy Space Center, famously used for Apollo Saturn V and Space Shuttle missions and now supporting modern orbital launches.
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B is a historic NASA launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast, originally built for Apollo missions and later used for Space Shuttle launches and current Artemis program flights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rocket launch pad
ⓘ
space launch facility ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
LC-36B
ⓘ
Pad 36B ⓘ |
| constructedFor | Atlas launch operations ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| hasNeighbor | Launch Pad 36A ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
early Atlas rocket development and operations
ⓘ
support of early U.S. planetary missions ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
ⓘ
Florida ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedOn | Atlantic coast of Florida ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
United States Space Force
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Space Force
United States Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cape Canaveral launch complexes
ⓘ
surface form:
Cape Canaveral launch infrastructure
Eastern Range ⓘ Launch Complex 36 ⓘ |
| status | historic launch pad ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NASA
ⓘ
Department of Defense ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Defense
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| usedFor |
Atlas rocket launches
ⓘ
commercial satellite launches ⓘ interplanetary probes ⓘ planetary missions ⓘ uncrewed space launches ⓘ |
| usedInProgram |
NASA planetary exploration missions
ⓘ
early U.S. space program ⓘ |
| vehicleTypeSupported |
Atlas II
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surface form:
Atlas II family
Atlas LV-3B ⓘ
surface form:
Atlas LV-3
Atlas-Centaur ⓘ |
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: Launch Pad 36B Description of subject: Launch Pad 36B is one of the historic launch pads at Cape Canaveral used primarily for Atlas rocket launches during the early years of the U.S. space program.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.