Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 12
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Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 is a historic U.S. launch pad in Florida used during the early space age for significant NASA planetary and military missions, including the Mariner 4 Mars probe.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 | 1 |
| Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4885633 — 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 Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 Context triple: [Mariner 4, launchSite, Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 12]
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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.
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B.
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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C.
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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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 18
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 18 is a historic launch facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida, primarily known for supporting early U.S. space and missile tests, including launches in the Vanguard program.
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E.
Cape Canaveral Missile Annex Launch Complex 26A
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.
- 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 Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 Target entity description: Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 is a historic U.S. launch pad in Florida used during the early space age for significant NASA planetary and military missions, including the Mariner 4 Mars probe.
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
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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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 18
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 18 is a historic launch facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida, primarily known for supporting early U.S. space and missile tests, including launches in the Vanguard program.
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E.
Cape Canaveral Missile Annex Launch Complex 26A
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rocket launch site
ⓘ
space launch complex ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
LC-12
NERFINISHED
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Launch Complex 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedProgram |
Mariner program
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ranger program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | early space age ⓘ |
| hasLaunchPadNumber | 12 ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic launch site ⓘ |
| launchesConductedBy |
NASA
NERFINISHED
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United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brevard County, Florida
NERFINISHED
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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station NERFINISHED ⓘ Florida ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Cape Canaveral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLaunch |
Mariner 3
NERFINISHED
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Mariner 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Ranger 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Ranger 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ Ranger 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
United States Air Force
ⓘ
United States Space Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cape Kennedy Air Force Station launch complexes
NERFINISHED
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Eastern Range NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLaunchVehicle | Atlas-Agena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern United States
|
| status | inactive ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NASA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Air Force ⓘ United States military NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
interplanetary missions
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lunar probe launches ⓘ military satellite launches ⓘ planetary probe launches ⓘ test launches ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | Cold War 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 Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 Description of subject: Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 is a historic U.S. launch pad in Florida used during the early space age for significant NASA planetary and military missions, including the Mariner 4 Mars probe.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12