Cape Canaveral Missile Annex Launch Complex 26A
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Cape Canaveral Missile Annex Launch Complex 26A is a historic launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, best known as the site from which the United States’ first successful satellite, Explorer 1, was launched.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cape Canaveral Missile Annex Launch Complex 26A canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4012883 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cape Canaveral Missile Annex Launch Complex 26A Context triple: [Explorer 1, launchSite, Cape Canaveral Missile Annex Launch Complex 26A]
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Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36 is a historic Florida launch site that supported numerous NASA and commercial Atlas-Centaur rocket missions, including early planetary and communications satellite launches.
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17A
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17A is a historic launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, long used for Delta rocket missions and various NASA scientific satellites.
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17B
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17B is a former U.S. launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast that historically supported numerous Delta rocket missions for NASA and the U.S. military.
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 is a major launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast used primarily by SpaceX for Falcon 9 missions to low Earth orbit and beyond.
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E.
Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34
Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 is a historic launch pad in Florida best known as the site of early Apollo program missions, including the first crewed Apollo flight.
- 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: Cape Canaveral Missile Annex Launch Complex 26A Target entity description: Cape Canaveral Missile Annex Launch Complex 26A is a historic launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, best known as the site from which the United States’ first successful satellite, Explorer 1, was launched.
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A.
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36 is a historic Florida launch site that supported numerous NASA and commercial Atlas-Centaur rocket missions, including early planetary and communications satellite launches.
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B.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17A
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17A is a historic launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, long used for Delta rocket missions and various NASA scientific satellites.
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C.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17B
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17B is a former U.S. launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast that historically supported numerous Delta rocket missions for NASA and the U.S. military.
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D.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 is a major launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast used primarily by SpaceX for Falcon 9 missions to low Earth orbit and beyond.
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E.
Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34
Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 is a historic launch pad in Florida best known as the site of early Apollo program missions, including the first crewed Apollo flight.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic site
ⓘ
rocket launch site ⓘ |
| associatedWithAgency |
NASA
NERFINISHED
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Army Ballistic Missile Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson | Wernher von Braun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithProgram | Explorer program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch complexes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Historic sites in Brevard County, Florida ⓘ Space launch facilities in Florida ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| era | early Space Age ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
blockhouse
ⓘ
launch pad ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic launch complex ⓘ |
| launchDateOfExplorer1 | 1958-02-01 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cape Canaveral
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Florida ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| notableEvent | first successful U.S. satellite launch ⓘ |
| notableFor | launch of Explorer 1 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Army ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
NERFINISHED
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Cape Canaveral Missile Annex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Launch Complex 26B
NERFINISHED
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Launch Complex 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Launch Complex 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rocketUsedForExplorer1 | Juno I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | inactive ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Army Ordnance Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
orbital launches
ⓘ
test launches ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | Cold War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedRocketType |
Juno I
NERFINISHED
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Jupiter-C 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: Cape Canaveral Missile Annex Launch Complex 26A Description of subject: Cape Canaveral Missile Annex Launch Complex 26A is a historic launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, best known as the site from which the United States’ first successful satellite, Explorer 1, was launched.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Explorer 3