landing of Space Shuttle Columbia STS-3
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The landing of Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-3 was NASA’s third Space Shuttle mission and the only shuttle landing ever conducted at White Sands in New Mexico, following weather-related diversions from its primary landing sites.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| landing of Space Shuttle Columbia STS-3 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4271303 — 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: landing of Space Shuttle Columbia STS-3 Context triple: [White Sands Space Harbor, notableEvent, landing of Space Shuttle Columbia STS-3]
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A.
STS-5 with Columbia
STS-5 with Columbia was NASA’s first fully operational Space Shuttle mission, marking the beginning of routine shuttle-based spaceflight in 1982.
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B.
STS-30
STS-30 was a 1989 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for deploying the Magellan spacecraft to Venus.
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C.
STS-103
STS-103 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 1999 dedicated to repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope to extend its operational life and scientific capabilities.
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D.
STS-34
STS-34 was a 1989 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for deploying the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter and carrying a crew that included astronaut Shannon Lucid.
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E.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
- 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: landing of Space Shuttle Columbia STS-3 Target entity description: The landing of Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-3 was NASA’s third Space Shuttle mission and the only shuttle landing ever conducted at White Sands in New Mexico, following weather-related diversions from its primary landing sites.
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A.
STS-5 with Columbia
STS-5 with Columbia was NASA’s first fully operational Space Shuttle mission, marking the beginning of routine shuttle-based spaceflight in 1982.
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B.
STS-30
STS-30 was a 1989 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for deploying the Magellan spacecraft to Venus.
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C.
STS-103
STS-103 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 1999 dedicated to repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope to extend its operational life and scientific capabilities.
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D.
STS-34
STS-34 was a 1989 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for deploying the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter and carrying a crew that included astronaut Shannon Lucid.
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E.
STS-31
STS-31 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission best known for deploying the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Space Shuttle landing
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Space Shuttle mission ⓘ Space Shuttle orbiter ⓘ astronaut ⓘ astronaut ⓘ spaceflight event ⓘ |
| alternateLandingSiteForMission | White Sands Space Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 2 ⓘ |
| diversionReason | adverse weather at primary landing sites ⓘ |
| divertedFrom | Edwards Air Force Base NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedByMission | STS-4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOnlyShuttleLandingAt | White Sands Space Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingCommander | Jack R. Lousma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1982-03-30 ⓘ |
| landingDecelerationMethod |
drag chute not yet used on this mission
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wheel brakes ⓘ |
| landingLocation | White Sands Missile Range NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingPilot | C. Gordon Fullerton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingRegion | New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingRunway | Runway 17 at White Sands Space Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingSite | White Sands Space Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingSurfaceType | gypsum runway ⓘ |
| landingTimeUTC | 16:04:46 ⓘ |
| missionDesignation | STS-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 8 days 0 hours 4 minutes ⓘ |
| missionDurationDays | 8 ⓘ |
| missionLaunchDate | 1982-03-22 ⓘ |
| missionLaunchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionNumberInProgram | 3 ⓘ |
| missionPhase | end of orbital mission STS-3 ⓘ |
| missionProgram | Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionType | orbital test flight ⓘ |
| notableAs |
only Space Shuttle landing at White Sands
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third Space Shuttle mission overall ⓘ third orbital flight of Space Shuttle Columbia ⓘ |
| operatedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitalInclinationDegrees | 38.0 ⓘ |
| orbitApogeeKilometers | 247 ⓘ |
| orbitPerigeeKilometers | 243 ⓘ |
| partOf | STS-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededByMission | STS-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLandingSiteForMission | Edwards Air Force Base NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weatherIssueAt |
Edwards Air Force Base
NERFINISHED
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Kennedy Space Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: landing of Space Shuttle Columbia STS-3 Description of subject: The landing of Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-3 was NASA’s third Space Shuttle mission and the only shuttle landing ever conducted at White Sands in New Mexico, following weather-related diversions from its primary landing sites.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
White Sands Space Harbor (former Shuttle landing site)
→
notableEvent
→
landing of Space Shuttle Columbia STS-3
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subject surface form:
White Sands Space Harbor