Shenzhou 11
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Shenzhou 11 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission launched in 2016 that carried two astronauts to the Tiangong-2 space laboratory for China's then-longest human spaceflight.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shenzhou 11 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9890244 — 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: Shenzhou 11 Context triple: [Shenzhou 12, precededBy, Shenzhou 11]
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A.
Shenzhou 12
Shenzhou 12 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission that carried three astronauts to the Tiangong space station as part of China’s expanding human spaceflight program.
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B.
Tiangong-2 space laboratory
Tiangong-2 space laboratory was China’s second prototype space station module, used to test key technologies for future modular space stations and support crewed and cargo missions in low Earth orbit.
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C.
Mengtian
Mengtian is a Chinese space laboratory module that forms part of the Tiangong space station, supporting scientific experiments and research in orbit.
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D.
Wentian
Wentian is a Chinese space laboratory module that serves as a key component of the Tiangong space station, providing additional research facilities, living space, and support systems for taikonauts in orbit.
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E.
Tianzhou cargo spacecraft
The Tianzhou cargo spacecraft is a Chinese automated freighter designed to deliver supplies, equipment, and fuel to support long-term operations of China’s Tiangong space station.
- 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: Shenzhou 11 Target entity description: Shenzhou 11 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission launched in 2016 that carried two astronauts to the Tiangong-2 space laboratory for China's then-longest human spaceflight.
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A.
Shenzhou 12
Shenzhou 12 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission that carried three astronauts to the Tiangong space station as part of China’s expanding human spaceflight program.
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B.
Tiangong-2 space laboratory
Tiangong-2 space laboratory was China’s second prototype space station module, used to test key technologies for future modular space stations and support crewed and cargo missions in low Earth orbit.
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C.
Mengtian
Mengtian is a Chinese space laboratory module that forms part of the Tiangong space station, supporting scientific experiments and research in orbit.
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D.
Wentian
Wentian is a Chinese space laboratory module that serves as a key component of the Tiangong space station, providing additional research facilities, living space, and support systems for taikonauts in orbit.
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E.
Tianzhou cargo spacecraft
The Tianzhou cargo spacecraft is a Chinese automated freighter designed to deliver supplies, equipment, and fuel to support long-term operations of China’s Tiangong space station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | crewed spaceflight mission ⓘ |
| callsign | Shenzhou 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Jing Haipeng NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| crewLaunchMassCategory | medium crewed spacecraft mission ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Chen Dong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jing Haipeng NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewNationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| crewSize | 2 ⓘ |
| destination | Tiangong-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockedWith | Tiangong-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockingDate | 2016-10-19 ⓘ |
| dockingTarget | Tiangong-2 space laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| durationRecord | then-longest Chinese crewed mission ⓘ |
| followedBy | Shenzhou 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Chinese human spaceflight program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate | 2016-11-18 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Inner Mongolia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2016-10-17 ⓘ |
| launchPad | Site 921 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Jiuquan Launch Area 4
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Long March 2F NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 33 days ⓘ |
| missionType |
crewed orbital mission
ⓘ
space station rendezvous and docking ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | longest Chinese human spaceflight at the time of the mission ⓘ |
| operator | China National Space Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbit | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| precededBy | Shenzhou 10 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| program | Shenzhou program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
experiments in space medicine
ⓘ
long-duration human spaceflight ⓘ space technology experiments ⓘ |
| reentryModuleRecovery | successful ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | China National Space Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | Shenzhou spacecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStationPhase | Tiangong program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | completed ⓘ |
| undockingDate | 2016-11-17 ⓘ |
| yearOfLaunch | 2016 ⓘ |
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: Shenzhou 11 Description of subject: Shenzhou 11 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission launched in 2016 that carried two astronauts to the Tiangong-2 space laboratory for China's then-longest human spaceflight.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.