Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter
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Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter is South Korea’s first lunar exploration spacecraft, designed to orbit the Moon and conduct scientific observations and technology demonstrations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter canonical | 1 |
| South Korea lunar exploration program | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6508600 — 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: Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter Context triple: [Korea Aerospace Research Institute, developed, Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter]
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A.
Kaguya (SELENE) lunar orbiter
Kaguya (SELENE) was a Japanese lunar orbiter mission that conducted detailed scientific mapping and observation of the Moon’s surface, gravity, and environment.
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B.
Luna 20
Luna 20 was a Soviet robotic lunar sample-return mission that successfully collected and returned soil from the Moon’s surface in 1972.
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C.
Luna spacecraft
The Luna spacecraft were a series of Soviet robotic probes launched between the late 1950s and 1970s that achieved many lunar exploration firsts, including the first human-made object to reach the Moon and the first soft landing on its surface.
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D.
Luna 11
Luna 11 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft from the Luna program, launched in 1966 to study the Moon from lunar orbit.
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E.
Luna 12
Luna 12 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft launched in 1966 that successfully entered lunar orbit and returned detailed photographs of the Moon’s surface.
- 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: Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter Target entity description: Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter is South Korea’s first lunar exploration spacecraft, designed to orbit the Moon and conduct scientific observations and technology demonstrations.
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A.
Kaguya (SELENE) lunar orbiter
Kaguya (SELENE) was a Japanese lunar orbiter mission that conducted detailed scientific mapping and observation of the Moon’s surface, gravity, and environment.
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B.
Luna 20
Luna 20 was a Soviet robotic lunar sample-return mission that successfully collected and returned soil from the Moon’s surface in 1972.
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C.
Luna spacecraft
The Luna spacecraft were a series of Soviet robotic probes launched between the late 1950s and 1970s that achieved many lunar exploration firsts, including the first human-made object to reach the Moon and the first soft landing on its surface.
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D.
Luna 11
Luna 11 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft from the Luna program, launched in 1966 to study the Moon from lunar orbit.
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E.
Luna 12
Luna 12 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft launched in 1966 that successfully entered lunar orbit and returned detailed photographs of the Moon’s surface.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lunar orbiter
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spacecraft ⓘ |
| abbreviation | KPLO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Danuri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carriesInstrument | ShadowCam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carriesInstrumentProvidedBy | NASA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaborationCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destination | Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedBy | Korea Aerospace Research Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enteredLunarOrbit | 2022-12-16 ⓘ |
| hasInstrument |
Delay-Tolerant Networking experiment payload
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KPLO Gamma-Ray Spectrometer NERFINISHED ⓘ KPLO Magnetometer NERFINISHED ⓘ Lunar Terrain Imager NERFINISHED ⓘ ShadowCam NERFINISHED ⓘ Wide-Angle Polarimetric Camera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKoreanName | 다누리 ⓘ |
| internationalCollaborationWith | NASA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFirstOf | South Korea’s lunar exploration missions ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Korean ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2022-08-04 ⓘ |
| launchServiceProvider | SpaceX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
NERFINISHED
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Space Launch Complex 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | SpaceX Falcon 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionGoal |
map lunar surface
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measure lunar gamma rays ⓘ measure lunar magnetic field ⓘ search for lunar resources ⓘ test deep-space internet technologies ⓘ |
| missionPhase | science mission ⓘ |
| missionType |
lunar exploration
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lunar orbiter mission ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | enjoy the Moon ⓘ |
| operator | Korea Aerospace Research Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitsBody | Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
lunar scientific observation
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technology demonstration ⓘ |
| program | Korean Lunar Exploration Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | Korea Aerospace Research Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | KPLO bus ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| targetOrbitType | polar lunar orbit ⓘ |
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: Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter Description of subject: Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter is South Korea’s first lunar exploration spacecraft, designed to orbit the Moon and conduct scientific observations and technology demonstrations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
South Korea lunar exploration program