Apollo 16 landing site
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The Apollo 16 landing site is the area in the Moon’s Descartes Highlands where NASA’s Apollo 16 mission touched down in 1972 to conduct geological exploration of the lunar highlands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Apollo 16 landing site canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10454695 — 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 16 landing site Context triple: [Descartes Highlands, notableFor, Apollo 16 landing site]
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A.
Apollo 11 landing site
The Apollo 11 landing site is the historic location on the Moon where humans first landed and walked during NASA's 1969 mission.
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B.
Taurus–Littrow valley
Taurus–Littrow valley is a geologically diverse lunar valley in the Moon’s Taurus Mountains that served as the landing and exploration site for NASA’s Apollo 17 mission.
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C.
Tranquility Base
Tranquility Base is the historic site on the Moon where Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Eagle landed in 1969, marking the first crewed Moon landing.
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D.
Stevenson Landing
Stevenson Landing is a marina and docking facility on the Columbia River serving the city of Stevenson in Washington State.
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E.
Launch Complex 18
Launch Complex 18 is a former U.S. launch facility at Cape Canaveral used primarily for early missile and space vehicle tests during the Cold War era.
- 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 16 landing site Target entity description: The Apollo 16 landing site is the area in the Moon’s Descartes Highlands where NASA’s Apollo 16 mission touched down in 1972 to conduct geological exploration of the lunar highlands.
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A.
Apollo 11 landing site
The Apollo 11 landing site is the historic location on the Moon where humans first landed and walked during NASA's 1969 mission.
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B.
Taurus–Littrow valley
Taurus–Littrow valley is a geologically diverse lunar valley in the Moon’s Taurus Mountains that served as the landing and exploration site for NASA’s Apollo 17 mission.
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C.
Tranquility Base
Tranquility Base is the historic site on the Moon where Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Eagle landed in 1969, marking the first crewed Moon landing.
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D.
Stevenson Landing
Stevenson Landing is a marina and docking facility on the Columbia River serving the city of Stevenson in Washington State.
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E.
Launch Complex 18
Launch Complex 18 is a former U.S. launch facility at Cape Canaveral used primarily for early missile and space vehicle tests during the Cold War era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geological exploration site
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lunar landing site ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| evaCount | 3 ⓘ |
| experimentDeployed |
ALSEP (Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package)
NERFINISHED
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Cosmic Ray Detector NERFINISHED ⓘ Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph NERFINISHED ⓘ Lunar Portable Magnetometer NERFINISHED ⓘ Lunar Surface Magnetometer NERFINISHED ⓘ Passive Seismic Experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ Soil Mechanics Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ Solar Wind Composition Experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature |
Cayley Formation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Descartes crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Flag Crater NERFINISHED ⓘ House Rock NERFINISHED ⓘ North Ray Crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Plum Crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow Rock NERFINISHED ⓘ South Ray Crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Spook Crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Stone Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingLatitudeApprox | 8.973° S ⓘ |
| landingLongitudeApprox | 15.500° E ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Descartes Highlands
NERFINISHED
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lunar highlands ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lunarMareProximity | southeast of Mare Insularum ⓘ |
| missionLandingDate | 1972-04-21 ⓘ |
| missionLunarLandingDateUTC | 1972-04-21T02:23:35Z ⓘ |
| missionLunarLiftoffDateUTC | 1972-04-24T01:25:47Z ⓘ |
| missionNumber | Apollo 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionSequenceInApolloProgram | 10th crewed Apollo mission ⓘ |
| missionSequenceLunarLanding | 5th crewed lunar landing ⓘ |
| operatedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitalCommandModulePilot | Thomas K. Mattingly II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose | geological exploration of lunar highlands ⓘ |
| regionHemisphere | near side of the Moon ⓘ |
| resultFinding | terrain dominated by impact breccias rather than volcanic flows ⓘ |
| sampleMassReturnedKg | 95.8 ⓘ |
| sampleMassReturnedLb | 211 ⓘ |
| scientificFocus |
highlands geology
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impact breccias ⓘ lunar crustal evolution ⓘ magnetic and plasma environment ⓘ regolith mechanics ⓘ |
| selectionRationale |
representative of ancient lunar highlands crust
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to test Descartes region volcanic hypothesis ⓘ |
| surfaceType |
brecciated highland crust
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rugged highlands terrain ⓘ |
| totalEVAOnSurfaceHours | 20.23 ⓘ |
| usedByMission | Apollo 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visitedByAstronaut |
Charles M. Duke Jr.
NERFINISHED
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John W. Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visitedByLunarModule | Orion (Apollo 16 Lunar Module) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visitedByLunarRover | Apollo 16 Lunar Roving Vehicle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Apollo 16 landing site Description of subject: The Apollo 16 landing site is the area in the Moon’s Descartes Highlands where NASA’s Apollo 16 mission touched down in 1972 to conduct geological exploration of the lunar highlands.
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