Launch Complex 18
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Launch Complex 18 is a former U.S. launch facility at Cape Canaveral used primarily for early missile and space vehicle tests during the Cold War era.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Launch Complex 18A | 3 |
| Launch Complex 18 canonical | 2 |
| Launch Complex 17 | 1 |
| Launch Complex 18 Pad A | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4080343 — 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: Launch Complex 18 Context triple: [LC-18A, partOf, Launch Complex 18]
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A.
Launch Complex 19
Launch Complex 19 is a historic launch pad at Cape Canaveral used primarily for NASA’s Project Gemini crewed spaceflights in the 1960s.
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B.
Launch Complex 39C
Launch Complex 39C is a small launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center designed to support launches of small-class commercial and government rockets.
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C.
Launch Complex 39
Launch Complex 39 is a major NASA launch facility at Kennedy Space Center, best known as the departure site for Apollo Moon missions and Space Shuttle flights.
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D.
Space Launch Complex 2
Space Launch Complex 2 is a launch facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base historically used for launching small to medium-class rockets into polar and sun-synchronous orbits.
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E.
Space Launch Complex 4
Space Launch Complex 4 is a major West Coast orbital launch site used primarily for polar-orbit and sun-synchronous satellite missions.
- 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: Launch Complex 18 Target entity description: Launch Complex 18 is a former U.S. launch facility at Cape Canaveral used primarily for early missile and space vehicle tests during the Cold War era.
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A.
Launch Complex 19
Launch Complex 19 is a historic launch pad at Cape Canaveral used primarily for NASA’s Project Gemini crewed spaceflights in the 1960s.
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B.
Launch Complex 39C
Launch Complex 39C is a small launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center designed to support launches of small-class commercial and government rockets.
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C.
Launch Complex 39
Launch Complex 39 is a major NASA launch facility at Kennedy Space Center, best known as the departure site for Apollo Moon missions and Space Shuttle flights.
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D.
Space Launch Complex 2
Space Launch Complex 2 is a launch facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base historically used for launching small to medium-class rockets into polar and sun-synchronous orbits.
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E.
Space Launch Complex 4
Space Launch Complex 4 is a major West Coast orbital launch site used primarily for polar-orbit and sun-synchronous satellite missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military installation
ⓘ
rocket launch site ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | LC-18 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| environment | coastal launch site ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
launch pads
ⓘ
support equipment ⓘ |
| hasSubstructure |
Launch Pad 18A
NERFINISHED
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Launch Pad 18B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early Space Age ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
testing early U.S. missile systems
ⓘ
testing early U.S. space launch vehicles ⓘ |
| launchPadCount | 2 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brevard County, Florida
NERFINISHED
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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station NERFINISHED ⓘ Florida ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Cape Canaveral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cape Canaveral missile test range
NERFINISHED
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Eastern Range NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | deactivated ⓘ |
| usedBy |
United States Air Force
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United States Army ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ |
| usedDuring | Cold War ⓘ |
| usedFor |
missile tests
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research and development launches ⓘ space vehicle tests ⓘ test 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: Launch Complex 18 Description of subject: Launch Complex 18 is a former U.S. launch facility at Cape Canaveral used primarily for early missile and space vehicle tests during the Cold War era.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Launch Complex 18 Pad A
this entity surface form:
Launch Complex 17
this entity surface form:
Launch Complex 18A
this entity surface form:
Launch Complex 18A
this entity surface form:
Launch Complex 18A