Diego Garcia Tracking Station
E371904
Diego Garcia Tracking Station is a U.S. military satellite tracking and communications facility located on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, supporting space operations and satellite control.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Diego Garcia Tracking Station canonical | 1 |
| United States–United Kingdom military facilities on Diego Garcia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3514033 — 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: Diego Garcia Tracking Station Context triple: [Air Force Satellite Control Network, hasSite, Diego Garcia 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.
Alaska Tracking Station
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Diego Garcia Tracking Station Target entity description: Diego Garcia Tracking Station is a U.S. military satellite tracking and communications facility located on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, supporting space operations and satellite control.
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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.
Alaska Tracking Station
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ground tracking station
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military installation ⓘ satellite tracking station ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Department of Defense
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surface form:
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Space Command ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| environment | remote island location ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
command uplink
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satellite communications ⓘ satellite control support ⓘ satellite tracking ⓘ space operations support ⓘ telemetry reception ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Indian Ocean Territory
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Diego Garcia ⓘ Indian Ocean ⓘ |
| near |
Diego Garcia
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surface form:
U.S. Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia
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| operator |
United States Air Force
ⓘ
United States Space Force ⓘ United States Armed Forces ⓘ
surface form:
United States military
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| partOf |
U.S. military space operations infrastructure
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global satellite control network ⓘ |
| securityClassification | military restricted area ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
provides mid-ocean satellite coverage
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supports U.S. operations in the Indian Ocean region ⓘ |
| supportsDomain |
defense communications
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satellite navigation support ⓘ space operations ⓘ |
| usedFor |
supporting U.S. military satellite constellations
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supporting global communications ⓘ supporting space situational awareness ⓘ |
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: Diego Garcia Tracking Station Description of subject: Diego Garcia Tracking Station is a U.S. military satellite tracking and communications facility located on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, supporting space operations and satellite control.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
United States–United Kingdom military facilities on Diego Garcia