DSS-14
E570560
deep space communication antenna
parabolic antenna
radio telescope
space communication infrastructure
DSS-14 is a large, historic 70-meter radio antenna at NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex used for deep-space spacecraft tracking and communication.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DSS-14 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6125289 — 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: DSS-14 Context triple: [Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, hasAntenna, DSS-14]
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A.
DSS
DSS is the IATA airport code for Blaise Diagne International Airport, the main international gateway serving Dakar, Senegal.
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B.
DSS
DSS is the abbreviated name of the Securitate, the notorious secret police service of Communist Romania.
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C.
SS-287
SS-287 is the hull number of USS Bowfin, a World War II-era Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy now preserved as a museum ship.
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D.
D.S.D.
D.S.D. is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota, a federal trial court within the Eighth Circuit.
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E.
LDSS-2
LDSS-2 is an earlier-generation astronomical imaging spectrograph that was later replaced by the more advanced LDSS3 instrument.
- 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: DSS-14 Target entity description: DSS-14 is a large, historic 70-meter radio antenna at NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex used for deep-space spacecraft tracking and communication.
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A.
DSS
DSS is the IATA airport code for Blaise Diagne International Airport, the main international gateway serving Dakar, Senegal.
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B.
DSS
DSS is the abbreviated name of the Securitate, the notorious secret police service of Communist Romania.
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C.
SS-287
SS-287 is the hull number of USS Bowfin, a World War II-era Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy now preserved as a museum ship.
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D.
D.S.D.
D.S.D. is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota, a federal trial court within the Eighth Circuit.
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E.
LDSS-2
LDSS-2 is an earlier-generation astronomical imaging spectrograph that was later replaced by the more advanced LDSS3 instrument.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deep space communication antenna
ⓘ
parabolic antenna ⓘ radio telescope ⓘ space communication infrastructure ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NERFINISHED
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NASA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithProgram | NASA Deep Space Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructedFor | NASA deep space missions ⓘ |
| designedToOperateAt |
Ka-band frequencies
ⓘ
S-band frequencies ⓘ X-band frequencies ⓘ |
| environment | remote desert location to reduce radio interference ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Deep Space Station 14
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mars antenna ⓘ |
| hasApertureDiameter | 70 meters ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
receive weak signals from distant spacecraft
ⓘ
transmit commands to spacecraft ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | historic NASA deep-space communications facility ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | one of the largest and earliest large-aperture DSN antennas ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn |
supporting planetary radar experiments
ⓘ
tracking and communicating with Mars missions ⓘ |
| hasShape | parabolic dish ⓘ |
| hasTechnology |
high-power transmitters
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low-noise receivers ⓘ precision pointing system ⓘ |
| isPartOfNetwork | NASA Deep Space Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex NERFINISHED ⓘ Mojave Desert ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| operatedBy | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | NASA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NASA Deep Space Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
radio science experiments
ⓘ
science data downlink ⓘ spacecraft navigation ⓘ |
| supportsMissionType |
deep space probes
ⓘ
interplanetary missions ⓘ lunar missions ⓘ |
| usedFor |
command uplink
ⓘ
deep-space communication ⓘ deep-space spacecraft tracking ⓘ planetary radar observations ⓘ radio astronomy observations ⓘ ranging measurements ⓘ telemetry reception ⓘ |
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: DSS-14 Description of subject: DSS-14 is a large, historic 70-meter radio antenna at NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex used for deep-space spacecraft tracking and communication.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.