Alaska Tracking Station
E369560
Alaska Tracking Station is a U.S. Air Force satellite ground facility in Alaska that supports tracking, telemetry, and control of military and other government spacecraft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alaska Tracking Station canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3514032 — 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: Alaska Tracking Station Context triple: [Air Force Satellite Control Network, hasSite, Alaska Tracking Station]
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A.
Hawaii Tracking Station
Hawaii Tracking Station is a U.S. Air Force satellite tracking and communications facility in Hawaii that supports space operations within the Air Force Satellite Control Network.
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B.
New Hampshire Tracking Station
New Hampshire Tracking Station is a U.S. Air Force satellite ground station in New Hampshire that supports tracking, telemetry, and control of military and government spacecraft.
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C.
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is a major NASA facility in California that houses large radio antennas used to track and communicate with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
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D.
Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex
The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex is a NASA-affiliated ground station in Australia that tracks and communicates with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
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E.
Brewster station
Brewster station is a Metro-North Railroad commuter rail stop on the Harlem Line in Brewster, New York, providing regional service to and from New York City.
- 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: Alaska Tracking Station Target entity description: Alaska Tracking Station is a U.S. Air Force satellite ground facility in Alaska that supports tracking, telemetry, and control of military and other government spacecraft.
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A.
Hawaii Tracking Station
Hawaii Tracking Station is a U.S. Air Force satellite tracking and communications facility in Hawaii that supports space operations within the Air Force Satellite Control Network.
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B.
New Hampshire Tracking Station
New Hampshire Tracking Station is a U.S. Air Force satellite ground station in New Hampshire that supports tracking, telemetry, and control of military and government spacecraft.
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C.
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is a major NASA facility in California that houses large radio antennas used to track and communicate with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
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D.
Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex
The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex is a NASA-affiliated ground station in Australia that tracks and communicates with interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Network.
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E.
Brewster station
Brewster station is a Metro-North Railroad commuter rail stop on the Harlem Line in Brewster, New York, providing regional service to and from New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Air Force installation
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satellite ground station ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
Department of Defense
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surface form:
U.S. Department of Defense
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| domain |
military space operations
ⓘ
satellite communications ⓘ |
| function |
satellite tracking
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spacecraft command and control ⓘ support of U.S. government spacecraft ⓘ support of military spacecraft ⓘ telemetry reception ⓘ |
| hasCapability |
real-time satellite tracking
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receiving spacecraft telemetry ⓘ sending commands to spacecraft ⓘ |
| infrastructureType | ground segment of space system ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| location | Alaska ⓘ |
| operator |
United States Space Force
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Space Force
United States Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf |
Air Force Satellite Control Network
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surface form:
U.S. military satellite control network
|
| sector | defense ⓘ |
| supports |
national security space missions
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telemetry, tracking, and command operations ⓘ tracking of Earth-orbiting satellites ⓘ |
| usedFor |
support of military satellite constellations
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support of other U.S. government satellites ⓘ |
| user |
Department of Defense
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surface form:
U.S. Department of Defense
United States Space Force ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Space Force
United States Air Force ⓘ |
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: Alaska Tracking Station Description of subject: Alaska Tracking Station is a U.S. Air Force satellite ground facility in Alaska that supports tracking, telemetry, and control of military and other government spacecraft.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.