Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A is a historic Florida launch pad used for major U.S. crewed space missions, including Apollo Moon landings, Space Shuttle flights, and current SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A canonical | 218 |
| Launch Complex 39A | 15 |
| Kennedy Space Center LC-39A | 11 |
| Kennedy Space Center LC-39A (planned) | 1 |
| Launch Pad 39A | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T249352 — 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: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A Context triple: [NASA Space Shuttle program, primaryLaunchSite, Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A]
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A.
Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center is NASA’s primary launch complex for human spaceflight and robotic missions, located on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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B.
Johnson Space Center
Johnson Space Center is NASA’s primary hub for human spaceflight operations, astronaut training, and mission control in Houston, Texas.
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C.
Stennis Space Center
Stennis Space Center is NASA’s primary rocket engine testing facility, located in southern Mississippi and crucial to the development and certification of propulsion systems for U.S. space missions.
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D.
Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral is a prominent headland on Florida’s Atlantic coast best known as a major center for U.S. space launches and aerospace activities.
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E.
Glenn Research Center
Glenn Research Center is a major NASA research facility in Ohio specializing in aeronautics and space propulsion technologies.
- 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: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A Target entity description: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A is a historic Florida launch pad used for major U.S. crewed space missions, including Apollo Moon landings, Space Shuttle flights, and current SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches.
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A.
Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center is NASA’s primary launch complex for human spaceflight and robotic missions, located on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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B.
Johnson Space Center
Johnson Space Center is NASA’s primary hub for human spaceflight operations, astronaut training, and mission control in Houston, Texas.
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C.
Stennis Space Center
Stennis Space Center is NASA’s primary rocket engine testing facility, located in southern Mississippi and crucial to the development and certification of propulsion systems for U.S. space missions.
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D.
Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral is a prominent headland on Florida’s Atlantic coast best known as a major center for U.S. space launches and aerospace activities.
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E.
Glenn Research Center
Glenn Research Center is a major NASA research facility in Ohio specializing in aeronautics and space propulsion technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rocket launch site
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spaceport launch pad ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1964 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| firstUsedForProgram | Apollo program ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
crew access arm
ⓘ
fixed service structure ⓘ flame trench ⓘ horizontal integration facility ⓘ mobile launcher platform interface ⓘ propellant storage tanks ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
first launch site to send astronauts to orbit on a commercial spacecraft
ⓘ
first launch site to send humans to the Moon ⓘ primary launch site for Apollo Moon landing missions ⓘ primary launch site for early Space Shuttle missions ⓘ |
| inauguralLaunchDate | 1967 ⓘ |
| laterUsedForProgram |
Commercial Crew Program
ⓘ
NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program ⓘ
surface form:
Commercial Resupply Services
NASA Space Shuttle program ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
|
| launchAzimuthRange | 28 degrees to 57 degrees ⓘ |
| launchVehicleSupported |
Falcon 9 rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon 9
Falcon Heavy rocket ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon Heavy
Saturn I ⓘ
surface form:
Saturn IB
Saturn V ⓘ Space Shuttle orbiter ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle
|
| leasedTo | SpaceX ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brevard County
ⓘ
surface form:
Brevard County, Florida
Florida ⓘ Kennedy Space Center ⓘ Merritt Island ⓘ |
| nearbyFacility |
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
ⓘ
surface form:
Launch Complex 39B
Vehicle Assembly Building ⓘ |
| notableLaunch |
Apollo 11
ⓘ
Apollo 4 ⓘ Apollo 8 ⓘ Crew Dragon Demo-2 ⓘ Crew-1 ⓘ Falcon Heavy rocket ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon Heavy test flight
STS-1 ⓘ STS-135 ⓘ SpaceX CRS-10 ⓘ |
| operator |
NASA
ⓘ
SpaceX ⓘ |
| ownedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | Launch Complex 39 ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| timezone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Apollo program
ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo lunar landing missions
Apollo program launches ⓘ Artemis program test and support launches ⓘ Commercial Crew Program missions ⓘ International Space Station resupply missions ⓘ Space Shuttle launches ⓘ SpaceX Falcon 9 launches ⓘ SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches ⓘ crewed spaceflight launches ⓘ uncrewed orbital launches ⓘ |
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: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A Description of subject: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A is a historic Florida launch pad used for major U.S. crewed space missions, including Apollo Moon landings, Space Shuttle flights, and current SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches.
Referenced by (246)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
STS-41-B
subject surface form:
STS-39
subject surface form:
STS-67
subject surface form:
STS-3
subject surface form:
STS-5
subject surface form:
STS-109
Apollo 17 Command and Service Module America
→
launchSite
→
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
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subject surface form:
Axiom Mission 1
subject surface form:
Inspiration4
subject surface form:
STS-41-G