Tiangong space station
E34212
The Tiangong space station is China’s modular, permanently crewed orbital outpost that serves as the centerpiece of its independent human spaceflight and research program in low Earth orbit.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tiangong space station canonical | 15 |
| Tiangong program | 5 |
| Tiangong space station program | 5 |
| Tiangong | 3 |
| Chinese space station | 1 |
| Chinese space station program | 1 |
| Tiangong space station missions | 1 |
| Tiangong-1 | 1 |
| Tiangong-2 | 1 |
| 天宫 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T262173 — 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: Tiangong space station Context triple: [China, hasSpaceStation, Tiangong space station]
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A.
Dragon spacecraft
The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX’s reusable cargo and crew capsule designed to transport supplies and astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station and other orbital destinations.
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B.
International Space Station program
The International Space Station program is a multinational collaborative effort to design, build, and operate a permanently crewed orbital research laboratory in low Earth orbit.
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C.
Kosmos
Kosmos is Alexander von Humboldt’s multi-volume work that presents a comprehensive scientific and philosophical overview of the natural world and the universe.
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D.
Starliner spacecraft
The Starliner spacecraft is Boeing’s crewed space capsule designed to transport astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, including missions to the International Space Station.
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E.
James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is a large, space-based observatory designed to study the universe in infrared light, revealing the formation of the first galaxies, stars, and planetary systems with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution.
- 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: Tiangong space station Target entity description: The Tiangong space station is China’s modular, permanently crewed orbital outpost that serves as the centerpiece of its independent human spaceflight and research program in low Earth orbit.
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A.
Dragon spacecraft
The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX’s reusable cargo and crew capsule designed to transport supplies and astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station and other orbital destinations.
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B.
International Space Station program
The International Space Station program is a multinational collaborative effort to design, build, and operate a permanently crewed orbital research laboratory in low Earth orbit.
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C.
Kosmos
Kosmos is Alexander von Humboldt’s multi-volume work that presents a comprehensive scientific and philosophical overview of the natural world and the universe.
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D.
Starliner spacecraft
The Starliner spacecraft is Boeing’s crewed space capsule designed to transport astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, including missions to the International Space Station.
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E.
James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is a large, space-based observatory designed to study the universe in infrared light, revealing the formation of the first galaxies, stars, and planetary systems with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crewed space station
ⓘ
modular space station ⓘ orbital space station ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Chinese space station ⓘ |
| altitude | about 340–450 kilometers ⓘ |
| assemblyComplete | late 2022 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | April 2021 ⓘ |
| coreModule | Tianhe ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| crewCapacity | 3 ⓘ |
| designLifetime | at least 10 years ⓘ |
| firstCrewArrival | June 2021 ⓘ |
| firstCrewMission | Shenzhou 12 ⓘ |
| firstModuleLaunch | 29 April 2021 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
external experiment platforms
ⓘ
multiple docking ports ⓘ robotic arm ⓘ |
| hasModule |
Mengtian laboratory module
ⓘ
Tianhe core module ⓘ Wentian laboratory module ⓘ |
| inclination | about 41.5 degrees ⓘ |
| isContemporaryWith |
International Space Station program
ⓘ
surface form:
International Space Station
|
| isPartOf |
China’s human spaceflight program
ⓘ
China National Space Administration ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese space program
|
| isPermanentlyCrewed | true ⓘ |
| isSuccessorOf |
Tiangong space station
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tiangong-1
Tiangong space station self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tiangong-2
|
| laboratoryModule |
Mengtian
ⓘ
Wentian ⓘ |
| languageOfOperations | Chinese ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Long March 5B ⓘ |
| maximumCrewCapacity | 6 ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Heavenly Palace ⓘ |
| operator |
China Manned Space Agency
ⓘ
China National Space Administration ⓘ |
| orbits | Earth ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| powerSource | solar arrays ⓘ |
| purpose |
human spaceflight
ⓘ
international scientific cooperation ⓘ space science research ⓘ technology demonstration ⓘ |
| researchField |
Earth observation
ⓘ
fluid physics ⓘ materials science ⓘ microgravity science ⓘ space medicine ⓘ space technology testing ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| supportsDockingWith |
Shenzhou 12
ⓘ
surface form:
Shenzhou crewed spacecraft
Tianzhou cargo spacecraft ⓘ |
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: Tiangong space station Description of subject: The Tiangong space station is China’s modular, permanently crewed orbital outpost that serves as the centerpiece of its independent human spaceflight and research program in low Earth orbit.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Tiangong-1
this entity surface form:
Tiangong-2
this entity surface form:
Tiangong space station program
this entity surface form:
Tiangong program
this entity surface form:
Chinese space station program
this entity surface form:
Tiangong program
this entity surface form:
Tiangong space station program
this entity surface form:
Tiangong
this entity surface form:
Tiangong
this entity surface form:
Tiangong space station program
this entity surface form:
Tiangong program
this entity surface form:
Tiangong space station missions
this entity surface form:
Tiangong
this entity surface form:
Tiangong space station program
this entity surface form:
Tiangong program
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天宫
this entity surface form:
Chinese space station
this entity surface form:
Tiangong space station program