Soyuz TMA-21
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Soyuz TMA-21 was a Russian crewed Soyuz spacecraft used to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station as part of the long-running Soyuz program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Soyuz TMA-21 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9635557 — 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 TMA-21 Context triple: [Expedition 28, launchVehicleUsed, Soyuz TMA-21]
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A.
Soyuz TMA-14
Soyuz TMA-14 was a Russian crewed spacecraft mission to the International Space Station that notably carried space tourist and software executive Charles Simonyi on his second trip to orbit.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Soyuz TMA-10
Soyuz TMA-10 was a Russian crewed spacecraft mission to the International Space Station that notably carried space tourist Charles Simonyi into orbit.
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E.
Soyuz TM-31
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.
- 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 TMA-21 Target entity description: Soyuz TMA-21 was a Russian crewed Soyuz spacecraft used to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station as part of the long-running Soyuz program.
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A.
Soyuz TMA-14
Soyuz TMA-14 was a Russian crewed spacecraft mission to the International Space Station that notably carried space tourist and software executive Charles Simonyi on his second trip to orbit.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Soyuz TMA-10
Soyuz TMA-10 was a Russian crewed spacecraft mission to the International Space Station that notably carried space tourist Charles Simonyi into orbit.
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E.
Soyuz TM-31
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soyuz spacecraft
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space mission ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Yuri Gagarin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callsign | Tarkhany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commemorates | 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Aleksandr Samokutyayev
NERFINISHED
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Andrei Borisenko NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronald Garan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| dockedTo | International Space Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockingDate | 2011-04-06 ⓘ |
| dockingPort | Poisk module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| issExpedition |
Expedition 27
NERFINISHED
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Expedition 28 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate | 2011-09-16 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2011-04-04 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 1/5
NERFINISHED
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Gagarin's Start NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Soyuz-FG NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 162 days ⓘ |
| missionType | crew transport to the International Space Station ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Yuri Gagarin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Roscosmos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Roscosmos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| program | Soyuz program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| registration | Soyuz TMA-21 (No. 231) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftManufacturer | RKK Energia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftSeries | Soyuz-TMA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| undockingDate | 2011-09-16 ⓘ |
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: Soyuz TMA-21 Description of subject: Soyuz TMA-21 was a Russian crewed Soyuz spacecraft used to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station as part of the long-running Soyuz program.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.