SL-3
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SL-3 is the NASA designation for Skylab 3, the second crewed mission to the Skylab space station conducted in 1973.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| SL-3 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6595068 — 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: SL-3 Context triple: [Skylab 3, alsoKnownAs, SL-3]
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SL3
SL3 is a branch of Boston’s MBTA Silver Line bus rapid transit system that connects South Station with Chelsea via the Seaport and East Boston tunnels.
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SL1
SL1 is a Boston bus rapid transit route on the MBTA Silver Line that connects downtown with Logan International Airport.
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SL4
SL4 is a branch of Boston’s MBTA Silver Line bus rapid transit service that runs between downtown and the Seaport/South Station area.
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D.
SL/R 5000
The SL/R 5000 is a high-performance V8 sports sedan version of the Holden LX Torana, renowned in Australia for its motorsport heritage and muscle car status.
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SLC-41
SLC-41 is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida used primarily for United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket missions, including NASA and commercial spacecraft launches.
- 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: SL-3 Target entity description: SL-3 is the NASA designation for Skylab 3, the second crewed mission to the Skylab space station conducted in 1973.
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A.
SL3
SL3 is a branch of Boston’s MBTA Silver Line bus rapid transit system that connects South Station with Chelsea via the Seaport and East Boston tunnels.
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B.
SL1
SL1 is a Boston bus rapid transit route on the MBTA Silver Line that connects downtown with Logan International Airport.
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C.
SL4
SL4 is a branch of Boston’s MBTA Silver Line bus rapid transit service that runs between downtown and the Seaport/South Station area.
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D.
SL/R 5000
The SL/R 5000 is a high-performance V8 sports sedan version of the Holden LX Torana, renowned in Australia for its motorsport heritage and muscle car status.
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E.
SLC-41
SLC-41 is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida used primarily for United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket missions, including NASA and commercial spacecraft launches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA space mission
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Skylab program mission ⓘ crewed spaceflight mission ⓘ |
| callSign | Skylab 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Alan L. Bean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| crewMember |
Alan L. Bean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack R. Lousma NERFINISHED ⓘ Owen K. Garriott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| destination | Skylab space station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | SL-4 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Skylab 3
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Skylab II crewed mission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNASADesignation | SL-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingSite | Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1973-07-28 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Saturn IB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 59 days 11 hours 9 minutes ⓘ |
| missionEndDate | 1973-09-25 ⓘ |
| missionSequenceNumber | second crewed Skylab mission ⓘ |
| missionType | space station expedition ⓘ |
| notableActivity |
Earth resources experiments
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long-duration human spaceflight medical studies ⓘ solar observations with Apollo Telescope Mount ⓘ |
| numberOfEVAs | 3 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitRegime | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| partOfProgram | Skylab program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedEVA | yes ⓘ |
| pilot | Jack R. Lousma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | SL-2 ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
conduct biomedical and solar physics research on Skylab
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continue repair and maintenance of Skylab space station ⓘ |
| recoveryShip | USS New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reentryDate | 1973-09-25 ⓘ |
| reentryVehicle | Apollo Command Module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sciencePilot | Owen K. Garriott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraftDockingTarget | Skylab Orbital Workshop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftName | Apollo Command/Service Module-117 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | Apollo CSM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStationVisited | Skylab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | completed mission ⓘ |
| totalEVATime | 13 hours 43 minutes ⓘ |
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: SL-3 Description of subject: SL-3 is the NASA designation for Skylab 3, the second crewed mission to the Skylab space station conducted in 1973.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.