Wuzhai
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Wuzhai is the commonly used name for the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, a major Chinese spaceport used primarily for launching polar-orbiting and sun-synchronous satellites.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wuzhai canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7871182 — 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: Wuzhai Context triple: [Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, alsoKnownAs, Wuzhai]
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A.
Wuzhen
Wuzhen is a historic water town in eastern China known for its ancient canals, traditional architecture, and cultural tourism.
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B.
Hongcun
Hongcun is a historic Chinese village in southern Anhui renowned for its well-preserved traditional Huizhou architecture and picturesque water system, and is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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C.
Xitang
Xitang is an ancient water town in eastern China renowned for its well-preserved canals, stone bridges, and traditional architecture.
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D.
Zhouzhuang
Zhouzhuang is one of China’s most famous ancient water towns, renowned for its well-preserved canals, stone bridges, and traditional Jiangnan architecture.
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E.
Zhujiajiao water town
Zhujiajiao water town is an ancient canal town on the outskirts of Shanghai, famed for its historic stone bridges, traditional riverside architecture, and network of picturesque waterways.
- 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: Wuzhai Target entity description: Wuzhai is the commonly used name for the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, a major Chinese spaceport used primarily for launching polar-orbiting and sun-synchronous satellites.
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A.
Wuzhen
Wuzhen is a historic water town in eastern China known for its ancient canals, traditional architecture, and cultural tourism.
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B.
Hongcun
Hongcun is a historic Chinese village in southern Anhui renowned for its well-preserved traditional Huizhou architecture and picturesque water system, and is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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C.
Xitang
Xitang is an ancient water town in eastern China renowned for its well-preserved canals, stone bridges, and traditional architecture.
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D.
Zhouzhuang
Zhouzhuang is one of China’s most famous ancient water towns, renowned for its well-preserved canals, stone bridges, and traditional Jiangnan architecture.
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E.
Zhujiajiao water town
Zhujiajiao water town is an ancient canal town on the outskirts of Shanghai, famed for its historic stone bridges, traditional riverside architecture, and network of picturesque waterways.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
satellite launch center
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spaceport ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
TSLC
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Taiyuan Space Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| controlledBy | People's Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| environment | inland launch site ⓘ |
| firstLaunchYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
command operations
ⓘ
satellite tracking ⓘ telemetry ⓘ |
| hasLaunchPad |
LC-16
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
LC-7 NERFINISHED ⓘ LC-9 NERFINISHED ⓘ LC-9A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| latitudeApprox | 38.8° N ⓘ |
| launchesTo |
heliosynchronous orbit
ⓘ
low Earth orbit ⓘ polar orbit ⓘ sun-synchronous orbit ⓘ |
| launchVehicleUsed |
Long March 2C
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Long March 4A NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 4B NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 4C NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 6A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Shanxi Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Kelan County
NERFINISHED
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Xinzhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| longitudeApprox | 111.6° E ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Wuzhai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1968 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
China
NERFINISHED
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People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatorType | military ⓘ |
| partOf | Chinese space program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
launching polar-orbiting satellites
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launching sun-synchronous orbit satellites ⓘ |
| specialization | high-inclination orbits ⓘ |
| timeZone | China Standard Time ⓘ |
| usedBy |
China National Space Administration
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chinese military space program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Earth observation satellite launches
ⓘ
meteorological satellite launches ⓘ remote sensing satellite launches ⓘ scientific satellite launches ⓘ technology demonstration satellite launches ⓘ |
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: Wuzhai Description of subject: Wuzhai is the commonly used name for the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, a major Chinese spaceport used primarily for launching polar-orbiting and sun-synchronous satellites.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.