Kennedy Space Center LC-39
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 is a historic NASA launch facility in Florida used for major crewed space missions, including Apollo, Space Shuttle, and modern rockets.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7866805 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kennedy Space Center LC-39 Context triple: [Saturn IB, launchSites, Kennedy Space Center LC-39]
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B is a historic NASA launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast, originally built for Apollo missions and later used for Space Shuttle launches and current Artemis program flights.
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A is a historic Florida launch pad used for major U.S. crewed space missions, including Apollo Moon landings, Space Shuttle flights, and current SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches.
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KSC LC-39A
KSC LC-39A is a historic launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, used for major crewed missions from Apollo to SpaceX’s modern flights.
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Cape Canaveral LC-37B
Cape Canaveral LC-37B is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, historically used for Saturn I/IB missions and currently serving as the launch site for United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV rockets.
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Cape Canaveral LC-41
Cape Canaveral LC-41 is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, historically used for major NASA and interplanetary missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kennedy Space Center LC-39 Target entity description: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 is a historic NASA launch facility in Florida used for major crewed space missions, including Apollo, Space Shuttle, and modern rockets.
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B is a historic NASA launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast, originally built for Apollo missions and later used for Space Shuttle launches and current Artemis program flights.
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A is a historic Florida launch pad used for major U.S. crewed space missions, including Apollo Moon landings, Space Shuttle flights, and current SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches.
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KSC LC-39A
KSC LC-39A is a historic launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, used for major crewed missions from Apollo to SpaceX’s modern flights.
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Cape Canaveral LC-37B
Cape Canaveral LC-37B is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, historically used for Saturn I/IB missions and currently serving as the launch site for United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV rockets.
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Cape Canaveral LC-41
Cape Canaveral LC-41 is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, historically used for major NASA and interplanetary missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rocket launch complex
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spaceport facility ⓘ |
| builtFor | Saturn V launch vehicle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| consistsOf |
Crawlerway
NERFINISHED
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Launch Control Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Launch Pad 39A NERFINISHED ⓘ Launch Pad 39B NERFINISHED ⓘ Launch Pad 39C NERFINISHED ⓘ Mobile Launcher Platforms NERFINISHED ⓘ Vehicle Assembly Building NERFINISHED ⓘ crawler-transporters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasLaunchAzimuth | approximately 35° to 120° ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Florida
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Kennedy Space Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Merritt Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Atlantic coast of Florida ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John F. Kennedy (via Kennedy Space Center) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyFacility | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLaunch |
Apollo 11
NERFINISHED
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Artemis I NERFINISHED ⓘ Artemis II (planned) NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ STS-135 NERFINISHED ⓘ final Space Shuttle mission ⓘ first Space Shuttle mission ⓘ first crewed Moon landing mission ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | Kennedy Space Center Launch Operations Directorate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
launch of crewed space missions
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launch of heavy-lift launch vehicles ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| supportsRocket |
Falcon 9
NERFINISHED
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Falcon Heavy NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturn IB NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturn V NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Launch System NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timezone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NASA
NERFINISHED
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SpaceX NERFINISHED ⓘ United Launch Alliance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedForProgram |
Apollo program
NERFINISHED
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Apollo–Soyuz Test Project NERFINISHED ⓘ Artemis program NERFINISHED ⓘ Commercial Crew Program NERFINISHED ⓘ Skylab program NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kennedy Space Center LC-39 Description of subject: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 is a historic NASA launch facility in Florida used for major crewed space missions, including Apollo, Space Shuttle, and modern rockets.
Referenced by (19)
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 area
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
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Apollo launch infrastructure at Kennedy Space Center
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
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Kennedy Space Center launch facilities
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Vehicle Assembly Building
this entity surface form:
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
subject surface form:
Launch Control Center
this entity surface form:
Kennedy Space Center launch complex
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Ares V
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
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Kennedy Space Center launch complexes
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complexes
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complexes
this entity surface form:
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39