Apollo spacecraft
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The Apollo spacecraft was NASA’s crewed vehicle used in the 1960s–70s Apollo program to carry astronauts to and from lunar orbit and support Moon landings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apollo spacecraft canonical | 3 |
| Apollo spacecraft systems | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9807843 — 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: Apollo spacecraft Context triple: [Apollo–Soyuz Docking Module, connectsWith, Apollo spacecraft]
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A.
Apollo CSM-118
Apollo CSM-118 was the Apollo command and service module used for NASA’s Skylab 4 mission, carrying astronauts to and from the Skylab space station in 1973–1974.
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B.
Apollo CSM-116
Apollo CSM-116 was the Apollo command and service module used for NASA’s first crewed Skylab mission, carrying astronauts to and from the Skylab space station in 1973.
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C.
Gemini spacecraft
The Gemini spacecraft was NASA’s two-person capsule used in the mid-1960s to develop critical spaceflight techniques such as orbital rendezvous, docking, and extended missions in preparation for the Apollo Moon landings.
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D.
Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia
Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia was the spacecraft that housed the crew during the first successful Moon landing mission and returned the astronauts safely to Earth.
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E.
Mercury spacecraft
The Mercury spacecraft was NASA’s first crewed space vehicle, designed in the early 1960s to carry a single astronaut into Earth orbit and safely return them, paving the way for later Gemini and Apollo missions.
- 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: Apollo spacecraft Target entity description: The Apollo spacecraft was NASA’s crewed vehicle used in the 1960s–70s Apollo program to carry astronauts to and from lunar orbit and support Moon landings.
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A.
Apollo CSM-118
Apollo CSM-118 was the Apollo command and service module used for NASA’s Skylab 4 mission, carrying astronauts to and from the Skylab space station in 1973–1974.
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B.
Apollo CSM-116
Apollo CSM-116 was the Apollo command and service module used for NASA’s first crewed Skylab mission, carrying astronauts to and from the Skylab space station in 1973.
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C.
Gemini spacecraft
The Gemini spacecraft was NASA’s two-person capsule used in the mid-1960s to develop critical spaceflight techniques such as orbital rendezvous, docking, and extended missions in preparation for the Apollo Moon landings.
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D.
Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia
Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia was the spacecraft that housed the crew during the first successful Moon landing mission and returned the astronauts safely to Earth.
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E.
Mercury spacecraft
The Mercury spacecraft was NASA’s first crewed space vehicle, designed in the early 1960s to carry a single astronaut into Earth orbit and safely return them, paving the way for later Gemini and Apollo missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crewed spacecraft
ⓘ
space vehicle ⓘ |
| componentOf |
Saturn IB launch vehicle payload
ⓘ
Saturn V launch vehicle payload ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewCapacity | 3 astronauts ⓘ |
| designConfiguration | command-service module plus lunar module ⓘ |
| designedForEnvironment |
cislunar space
ⓘ
lunar orbit ⓘ |
| developedInPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| dockingSystem | probe-and-drogue docking mechanism ⓘ |
| firstCrewedFlight | Apollo 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstCrewedFlightDate | 1968-10-11 ⓘ |
| firstLunarLandingDate | 1969-07-20 ⓘ |
| firstLunarLandingMission | Apollo 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| guidanceSystem | Apollo Guidance Computer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Apollo command module
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Apollo lunar module NERFINISHED ⓘ Apollo service module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastCrewedMission | Apollo-Soyuz Test Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastCrewedMissionDate | 1975-07-15 ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Saturn IB
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saturn V NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North American Aviation NERFINISHED ⓘ North American Rockwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionProfile | lunar orbit rendezvous ⓘ |
| notableMission |
Apollo 11
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Apollo 13 NERFINISHED ⓘ Apollo 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operationalPeriodEnd | 1975 ⓘ |
| operationalPeriodStart | 1966 ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| powerSource | fuel cells ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
support Moon landings
ⓘ
transport astronauts to lunar orbit ⓘ |
| propulsionType | service module main engine ⓘ |
| reentryEnvironment | Earth atmosphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reentryMethod | capsule splashdown ⓘ |
| reentryShape | blunt-body cone ⓘ |
| replaced |
Gemini spacecraft
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mercury spacecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| safetyEvent | Apollo 1 fire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| safetyEventDate | 1967-01-27 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Space Shuttle orbiter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
crewed spaceflight
ⓘ
lunar exploration ⓘ |
| usedIn | Apollo 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: Apollo spacecraft Description of subject: The Apollo spacecraft was NASA’s crewed vehicle used in the 1960s–70s Apollo program to carry astronauts to and from lunar orbit and support Moon landings.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Apollo spacecraft systems