Gemini 4
E81751
Gemini 4 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight best known for carrying out the first American spacewalk during the Gemini program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gemini 4 canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T645491 — 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: Gemini 4 Context triple: [Gemini program, notableMission, Gemini 4]
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A.
Gemini 3
Gemini 3 was NASA’s first crewed Gemini spacecraft mission, flown in 1965 by astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young to test orbital maneuvering and spacecraft systems for future spaceflights.
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B.
Gemini 8
Gemini 8 was a 1966 NASA crewed spaceflight in the Gemini program, notable for achieving the first successful docking of two spacecraft in orbit and for a critical in-flight emergency that tested astronaut Neil Armstrong’s piloting skills.
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C.
Gemini 12
Gemini 12 was the final crewed mission of NASA’s Gemini program, notable for successfully advancing spacewalk techniques and rendezvous/docking procedures that paved the way for Apollo lunar missions.
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D.
Apollo 7
Apollo 7 was NASA’s 1968 Earth-orbiting test mission that successfully proved the redesigned Apollo spacecraft’s systems and paved the way for subsequent lunar missions.
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E.
Gemini program
The Gemini program was NASA’s second human spaceflight project in the 1960s, designed to develop critical space travel techniques such as orbital rendezvous, docking, and long-duration missions that paved the way for the Apollo Moon landings.
- 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: Gemini 4 Target entity description: Gemini 4 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight best known for carrying out the first American spacewalk during the Gemini program.
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A.
Gemini 3
Gemini 3 was NASA’s first crewed Gemini spacecraft mission, flown in 1965 by astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young to test orbital maneuvering and spacecraft systems for future spaceflights.
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B.
Gemini 8
Gemini 8 was a 1966 NASA crewed spaceflight in the Gemini program, notable for achieving the first successful docking of two spacecraft in orbit and for a critical in-flight emergency that tested astronaut Neil Armstrong’s piloting skills.
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C.
Gemini 12
Gemini 12 was the final crewed mission of NASA’s Gemini program, notable for successfully advancing spacewalk techniques and rendezvous/docking procedures that paved the way for Apollo lunar missions.
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D.
Apollo 7
Apollo 7 was NASA’s 1968 Earth-orbiting test mission that successfully proved the redesigned Apollo spacecraft’s systems and paved the way for subsequent lunar missions.
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E.
Gemini program
The Gemini program was NASA’s second human spaceflight project in the 1960s, designed to develop critical space travel techniques such as orbital rendezvous, docking, and long-duration missions that paved the way for the Apollo Moon landings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gemini program mission
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NASA space mission ⓘ crewed spaceflight ⓘ |
| attemptedRendezvousWith | Titan II second stage ⓘ |
| backupCommander | Frank Borman ⓘ |
| backupPilot |
Jim Lovell
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surface form:
James A. Lovell Jr.
|
| callSign | Gemini 4 self-link ⓘ |
| capsuleMass | approximately 3,800 kilograms ⓘ |
| commander | James McDivitt ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| crewMember |
Edward White
ⓘ
surface form:
Edward H. White II
James McDivitt ⓘ |
| crewSize | 2 ⓘ |
| era | Space Race ⓘ |
| EVADate | 1965-06-03 ⓘ |
| EVADuration | approximately 23 minutes ⓘ |
| EVAPerformedBy |
Edward White
ⓘ
surface form:
Edward H. White II
|
| firstAmericanEVA | true ⓘ |
| followedBy | Gemini 5 ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1965-06-07 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1965-06-03 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 19
ⓘ
LC-19 ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Titan II GLV ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 4 days 1 hour 56 minutes ⓘ |
| missionDurationHours | 97 ⓘ |
| missionNumber | 4 ⓘ |
| missionPatchFeatures | American bald eagle and U.S. flag motif ⓘ |
| notableFor | first American spacewalk ⓘ |
| objective |
evaluation of spacecraft systems over multiple days
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first U.S. extravehicular activity ⓘ long-duration flight ⓘ |
| operator |
Johnson Space Center
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surface form:
Manned Spacecraft Center
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| orbitsCompleted | 62 ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| pilot |
Edward White
ⓘ
surface form:
Edward H. White II
|
| precededBy | Gemini 3 ⓘ |
| program |
Gemini program
ⓘ
surface form:
Project Gemini
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| recoveryShip |
USS Wasp (CV-18)
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surface form:
USS Wasp (CVS-18)
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| reentryMethod | ballistic reentry with parachute splashdown ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Apollo program ⓘ |
| rendezvousAttemptResult | unsuccessful ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraftConfiguration | two-seat capsule with equipment module ⓘ |
| spacecraftName | Gemini SC-4 ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | Gemini spacecraft ⓘ |
| spacewalkTool | hand-held maneuvering unit ⓘ |
| trainingFor | future Apollo lunar missions ⓘ |
| yearOfMission | 1965 ⓘ |
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: Gemini 4 Description of subject: Gemini 4 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight best known for carrying out the first American spacewalk during the Gemini program.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.