Soyuz TM-23
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Soyuz TM-23 was a Russian crewed Soyuz spacecraft mission used to transport cosmonauts to the Mir space station in the mid-1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Soyuz TM-23 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5230188 — 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: Soyuz TM-23 Context triple: [Mir EO-21, launchVehicle, Soyuz TM-23]
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A.
Soyuz TM-21
Soyuz TM-21 was a Russian crewed spacecraft mission notable for carrying U.S. astronaut Norman E. Thagard to the Mir space station as part of early Shuttle-Mir cooperation.
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B.
Soyuz T-15
Soyuz T-15 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft mission notable for inaugurating operations on the Mir space station while also visiting the aging Salyut 7 station in a unique dual-docking flight.
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C.
Salyut 7
Salyut 7 was a Soviet-era modular space station that served as one of the last and most advanced stations in the Salyut program, paving the way for the later Mir space station.
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D.
Soyuz spacecraft
The Soyuz spacecraft is a long-serving Russian crewed vehicle used to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
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E.
Soyuz 19
Soyuz 19 was the Soviet spacecraft that participated in the historic 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, enabling the first international crewed space docking between the USSR and the United States.
- 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: Soyuz TM-23 Target entity description: Soyuz TM-23 was a Russian crewed Soyuz spacecraft mission used to transport cosmonauts to the Mir space station in the mid-1990s.
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A.
Soyuz TM-21
Soyuz TM-21 was a Russian crewed spacecraft mission notable for carrying U.S. astronaut Norman E. Thagard to the Mir space station as part of early Shuttle-Mir cooperation.
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B.
Soyuz T-15
Soyuz T-15 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft mission notable for inaugurating operations on the Mir space station while also visiting the aging Salyut 7 station in a unique dual-docking flight.
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C.
Salyut 7
Salyut 7 was a Soviet-era modular space station that served as one of the last and most advanced stations in the Salyut program, paving the way for the later Mir space station.
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D.
Soyuz spacecraft
The Soyuz spacecraft is a long-serving Russian crewed vehicle used to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
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E.
Soyuz 19
Soyuz 19 was the Soviet spacecraft that participated in the historic 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, enabling the first international crewed space docking between the USSR and the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soyuz spacecraft mission
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crewed spaceflight mission ⓘ spacecraft ⓘ |
| commander | Yuri Onufrienko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Russia
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Russian Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewExchangeWith | Soyuz TM-22 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Shannon Lucid
NERFINISHED
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Yuri Onufrienko NERFINISHED ⓘ Yury Usachov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| dockingDate | 1996-02-23 ⓘ |
| dockingPort | Mir Kvant-2 module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockingTarget | Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flightEngineer | Yury Usachov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Soyuz TM-24 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1996-09-02 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingType | parachute-assisted landing ⓘ |
| launchCountry | Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1996-02-21 ⓘ |
| launchOperator | Russian Federal Space Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome
NERFINISHED
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Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 1/5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Soyuz-U NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | approximately 193 days ⓘ |
| missionStart | 1996-02-21 ⓘ |
| missionType |
Mir crew rotation
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crew transport ⓘ |
| notableFeature | carried first long-duration American astronaut to Mir on a Soyuz ⓘ |
| operator |
RKA
NERFINISHED
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Roscosmos NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian Federal Space Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbit | Low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| partOf | Mir EO-21 expedition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Soyuz TM-22 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| returnCrewVehicleFor | Mir EO-21 crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceAgencyCollaboration | NASA–Roscosmos cooperation on Mir ⓘ |
| spacecraftManufacturer | RKK Energia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftSeries | Soyuz-TM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | Soyuz-TM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceProgram |
Mir-Shuttle program
NERFINISHED
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Russian space program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStationDestination | Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStationProgram | Mir program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| undockingDate | 1996-09-02 ⓘ |
| visitingAstronaut | Shannon Lucid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visitingAstronautAgency | NASA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Soyuz TM-23 Description of subject: Soyuz TM-23 was a Russian crewed Soyuz spacecraft mission used to transport cosmonauts to the Mir space station in the mid-1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.