Vostok 3
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Vostok 3 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft launched in 1962 that carried cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev into orbit as part of the early Vostok program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vostok 3 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9867628 — 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: Vostok 3 Context triple: [Vostok 4, relativeClosestApproachTo, Vostok 3]
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A.
Vostok 2
Vostok 2 was a Soviet crewed spaceflight in 1961 that carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit, becoming the second human spaceflight in history.
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B.
Vostok 5
Vostok 5 was a 1963 Soviet crewed spaceflight that carried cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky into low Earth orbit as part of the early Vostok program.
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C.
Vostok 4
Vostok 4 was a 1962 Soviet crewed spaceflight that, together with Vostok 3, conducted the first simultaneous multi-spacecraft mission in orbit.
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D.
Vostok 6
Vostok 6 was a 1963 Soviet crewed spaceflight that carried Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, into low Earth orbit.
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E.
Vostok 1
Vostok 1 was the Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight, marking humanity’s inaugural journey into outer space in 1961.
- 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: Vostok 3 Target entity description: Vostok 3 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft launched in 1962 that carried cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev into orbit as part of the early Vostok program.
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A.
Vostok 2
Vostok 2 was a Soviet crewed spaceflight in 1961 that carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit, becoming the second human spaceflight in history.
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B.
Vostok 5
Vostok 5 was a 1963 Soviet crewed spaceflight that carried cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky into low Earth orbit as part of the early Vostok program.
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C.
Vostok 4
Vostok 4 was a 1962 Soviet crewed spaceflight that, together with Vostok 3, conducted the first simultaneous multi-spacecraft mission in orbit.
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D.
Vostok 6
Vostok 6 was a 1963 Soviet crewed spaceflight that carried Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, into low Earth orbit.
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E.
Vostok 1
Vostok 1 was the Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight, marking humanity’s inaugural journey into outer space in 1961.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Vostok spacecraft
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crewed spacecraft ⓘ space mission ⓘ |
| callSign | Sokol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Andrian Nikolayev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| communication | radio communication with ground control ⓘ |
| cosmonaut | Andrian Nikolayev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crewEjection | yes ⓘ |
| crewMember | Andrian Nikolayev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewName | Andrian Nikolayev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewNationality | Soviet ⓘ |
| crewSize | 1 ⓘ |
| crewStatusAfterLanding | survived ⓘ |
| dockingCapability | no ⓘ |
| duration | about 94 hours ⓘ |
| era | early Space Age ⓘ |
| followedBy | Vostok 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingCountry | Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1962-08-15 ⓘ |
| landingSystem | parachute ⓘ |
| landingType | ground landing with cosmonaut ejection ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1962-08-11 ⓘ |
| launchMass | about 4725 kg ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome
NERFINISHED
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Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 1/5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Vostok-K rocket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| lifeSupport | closed-cycle environmental control system ⓘ |
| missionType |
crewed orbital flight
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spaceflight endurance mission ⓘ |
| notableFor |
first simultaneous crewed spaceflight with another spacecraft
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long-duration human spaceflight record at time of mission ⓘ |
| operator | Soviet space program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | over 60 ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| partOf | early Soviet human spaceflight program ⓘ |
| precededBy | Vostok 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
conduct medical and biological experiments in orbit
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study human endurance in space ⓘ |
| program | Vostok program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reentryModule | Vostok descent module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceModule | Vostok instrument module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| simultaneousFlightWith | Vostok 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | Soviet space agency ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | Vostok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | Vostok 3KA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | mission completed ⓘ |
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: Vostok 3 Description of subject: Vostok 3 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft launched in 1962 that carried cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev into orbit as part of the early Vostok program.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.