Long March 3A
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Long March 3A is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle widely used to place satellites and lunar probes into geostationary transfer and translunar orbits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Long March 3A canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9890000 — 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 3A Context triple: [Chang’e lunar exploration program, launchVehicleUsed, Long March 3A]
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Long March 3B
Long March 3B is a Chinese heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place communications and navigation satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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B.
Long March 3C
Long March 3C is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle, part of the Long March rocket family, primarily used to place satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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C.
Long March 3
Long March 3 is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place communications and navigation satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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D.
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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Long March 4B
Long March 4B is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
- 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 3A Target entity description: Long March 3A is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle widely used to place satellites and lunar probes into geostationary transfer and translunar orbits.
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A.
Long March 3B
Long March 3B is a Chinese heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place communications and navigation satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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B.
Long March 3C
Long March 3C is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle, part of the Long March rocket family, primarily used to place satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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C.
Long March 3
Long March 3 is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place communications and navigation satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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D.
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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E.
Long March 4B
Long March 4B is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expendable launch system
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orbital launch vehicle ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
CZ-3A
NERFINISHED
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Chang Zheng 3A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| familyVariantOf | Long March 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchCapability |
geostationary transfer orbit
ⓘ
translunar orbit ⓘ |
| launchProfile | three-stage to GTO ⓘ |
| launchSite | Xichang Satellite Launch Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchType | expendable ⓘ |
| manufacturer | China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
China National Space Administration
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
People's Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originLanguageName | 长征三号甲运载火箭 ⓘ |
| partOfFamily | Long March rocket family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
geostationary transfer orbit launches
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translunar injection launches ⓘ |
| propellantStage1 |
dinitrogen tetroxide
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unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine ⓘ |
| propellantStage2 |
dinitrogen tetroxide
ⓘ
unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine ⓘ |
| propellantStage3 |
liquid hydrogen
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liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| rocketConfiguration | three-stage ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| usedFor |
lunar probe launches
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satellite launches ⓘ |
| usedInProgram | Chinese lunar exploration program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedToLaunch | Chang'e lunar probes 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: Long March 3A Description of subject: Long March 3A is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle widely used to place satellites and lunar probes into geostationary transfer and translunar orbits.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.