Long March 4B
E714660
Long March 4B is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Long March 4B canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7871173 — 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: Long March 4B Context triple: [Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, hasLaunchPadFor, Long March 4B]
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Long March 4A
Long March 4A is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
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B.
Long March 2D
Long March 2D is a Chinese two-stage orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place satellites into low Earth and sun-synchronous orbits.
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C.
Long March 2C
Long March 2C is a Chinese two-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into low Earth orbit.
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D.
Long March 5
Long March 5 is a heavy-lift Chinese orbital launch vehicle developed by the China National Space Administration for deploying large payloads to Earth orbit and deep-space missions.
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E.
Long March 5B
Long March 5B is a heavy-lift Chinese orbital launch vehicle primarily used to carry large modules and payloads for the country’s space station program.
- 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: Long March 4B Target entity description: Long March 4B is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
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Long March 4A
Long March 4A is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
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B.
Long March 2D
Long March 2D is a Chinese two-stage orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place satellites into low Earth and sun-synchronous orbits.
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C.
Long March 2C
Long March 2C is a Chinese two-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into low Earth orbit.
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Long March 5
Long March 5 is a heavy-lift Chinese orbital launch vehicle developed by the China National Space Administration for deploying large payloads to Earth orbit and deep-space missions.
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E.
Long March 5B
Long March 5B is a heavy-lift Chinese orbital launch vehicle primarily used to carry large modules and payloads for the country’s space station program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expendable launch system
ⓘ
orbital launch vehicle ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Chang Zheng 4B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| designPurpose | high-inclination orbits ⓘ |
| familyDesignation | CZ-4B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Long March 4C NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchCapability |
polar orbit
ⓘ
sun-synchronous orbit ⓘ |
| launchEnvironment | land-based launch pad ⓘ |
| launchMarket |
commercial payloads
ⓘ
government payloads ⓘ |
| launchProfile | vertical takeoff ⓘ |
| launchRole | medium-lift launcher ⓘ |
| launchSitesUsed |
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Xichang Satellite Launch Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology
NERFINISHED
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Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
China National Space Administration
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
People's Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfFamily | Long March rocket family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMissionType | satellite launch ⓘ |
| propellantTypeFirstStage | N2O4/UDMH ⓘ |
| propellantTypeSecondStage | N2O4/UDMH ⓘ |
| propellantTypeThirdStage | N2O4/UDMH ⓘ |
| propulsionType | liquid-fueled ⓘ |
| reusability | non-reusable ⓘ |
| rocketConfiguration | three-stage ⓘ |
| staging | three-stage to orbit ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| successorTo | Long March 4A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalInclination | high-inclination orbits ⓘ |
| typicalOrbit |
low Earth orbit
ⓘ
sun-synchronous orbit ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Earth observation satellites
ⓘ
meteorological satellites ⓘ remote sensing satellites ⓘ scientific satellites ⓘ |
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: Long March 4B Description of subject: Long March 4B is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.