Soyuz TM-31
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Soyuz TM-31 was a Russian Soyuz spacecraft mission that launched the first resident crew to the International Space Station, marking the start of its permanent human occupation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Soyuz TM-31 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7918695 — 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-31 Context triple: [Sergei K. Krikalev, spaceMission, Soyuz TM-31]
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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 TM-23
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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C.
Soyuz TM-7
Soyuz TM-7 was a late-1980s Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station, notable for carrying cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev as part of its crew.
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D.
Soyuz TM-13
Soyuz TM-13 was a 1991 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station that notably carried cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev during his extended stay in orbit through the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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E.
Soyuz TM-12
Soyuz TM-12 was a 1991 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station that notably carried British astronaut Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space.
- 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-31 Target entity description: Soyuz TM-31 was a Russian Soyuz spacecraft mission that launched the first resident crew to the International Space Station, marking the start of its permanent human occupation.
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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 TM-23
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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C.
Soyuz TM-7
Soyuz TM-7 was a late-1980s Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station, notable for carrying cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev as part of its crew.
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D.
Soyuz TM-13
Soyuz TM-13 was a 1991 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station that notably carried cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev during his extended stay in orbit through the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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E.
Soyuz TM-12
Soyuz TM-12 was a 1991 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station that notably carried British astronaut Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | spaceflight mission ⓘ |
| associatedSpaceAgency |
NASA
NERFINISHED
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Roscosmos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| backupCrewMember |
Frank Culbertson
NERFINISHED
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Mikhail Tyurin NERFINISHED ⓘ Vladimir Dezhurov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carriedCrewMember |
Sergei Krikalev
NERFINISHED
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William Shepherd NERFINISHED ⓘ Yuri Gidzenko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carriedToOrbit | Expedition 1 crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Yuri Gidzenko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| deliveredExpedition | Expedition 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockedToModule | Zvezda service module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockingDate |
2 November 2000
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2000-11-02 ⓘ |
| dockingTarget | International Space Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flightEngineer |
Sergei Krikalev
NERFINISHED
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William Shepherd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Soyuz TM-32 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingCountry | Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate |
19 April 2001
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2001-04-19 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchComplex | Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 1/5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate |
2000-10-31
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31 October 2000 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Baikonur Cosmodrome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchTimeUTC | 07:52:47 ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Soyuz-U NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lifeboatDuration | about 6 months ⓘ |
| missionDestination | International Space Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDurationOnOrbit | about 186 days ⓘ |
| missionProgram | International Space Station program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionRole | delivered first resident ISS crew ⓘ |
| missionStartOf | Expedition 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFirst | first crewed mission to permanently occupy the ISS ⓘ |
| operator | Roscosmos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitRegime | Low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| precededBy | Soyuz TM-30 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| returnedBy | Soyuz TM-31 descent module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance | marked start of permanent human occupation of the ISS ⓘ |
| spacecraftManufacturer | RKK Energia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftSerialNumber | Soyuz TM No. 204 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | Soyuz-TM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| undockingDate |
18 April 2001
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2001-04-18 ⓘ |
| usedAs | ISS lifeboat 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-31 Description of subject: Soyuz TM-31 was a Russian Soyuz spacecraft mission that launched the first resident crew to the International Space Station, marking the start of its permanent human occupation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.