Vikram
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Vikram is the lunar lander of India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission, designed to attempt a soft landing near the Moon’s south polar region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vikram canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11001523 — 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: Vikram Context triple: [Chandrayaan-2, landerName, Vikram]
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A.
Vikram
Vikram is the lunar lander of India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, designed to achieve a soft landing on the Moon’s surface.
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B.
Vikram
Vikram is a prominent Indian actor best known for his versatile and intense performances in Tamil-language films.
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C.
Aditya
Aditya is a Hindu solar deity associated with the group of Vedic sun gods known as the Adityas.
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D.
Ramachandra
Ramachandra, better known as Tatya Tope, was a prominent Indian general and key leader of the 1857 Indian Rebellion against British rule.
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E.
Ramachandra
Ramachandra is a common Indian male given name of Sanskrit origin, often associated with the Hindu deity Lord Rama.
- 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: Vikram Target entity description: Vikram is the lunar lander of India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission, designed to attempt a soft landing near the Moon’s south polar region.
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A.
Vikram
Vikram is a prominent Indian actor best known for his versatile and intense performances in Tamil-language films.
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B.
Vikram
Vikram is the lunar lander of India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, designed to achieve a soft landing on the Moon’s surface.
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C.
Aditya
Aditya is a Hindu solar deity associated with the group of Vedic sun gods known as the Adityas.
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D.
Ramachandra
Ramachandra, better known as Tatya Tope, was a prominent Indian general and key leader of the 1857 Indian Rebellion against British rule.
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E.
Ramachandra
Ramachandra is a common Indian male given name of Sanskrit origin, often associated with the Hindu deity Lord Rama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lunar lander
ⓘ
spacecraft ⓘ |
| carries |
Pragyan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pragyan rover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| communicationLossAltitude | about 2.1 km above lunar surface ⓘ |
| communicationLossPhase | final descent ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| deorbitManeuverDate |
2019-09-03
ⓘ
2019-09-04 ⓘ |
| designedFor | soft landing on the Moon ⓘ |
| dryMass | 626 kg ⓘ |
| foundBy |
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NASA LRO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundDate | 2019-12-02 ⓘ |
| hasInstrument |
ChaSTE
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ILSA NERFINISHED ⓘ Laser Retroreflector Array NERFINISHED ⓘ RAMBHA-Langmuir Probe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandingLegs | 4 ⓘ |
| intendedLandingSite |
between craters Manzinus C and Simpelius N
ⓘ
near lunar south pole ⓘ |
| landingAttemptDate |
2019-09-06
ⓘ
2019-09-07 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2019-07-22 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Satish Dhawan Space Centre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sriharikota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
GSLV Mk III
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
GSLV Mk III-M1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mass | 1471 kg ⓘ |
| mission | Chandrayaan-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionOutcome | hard landing on the Moon ⓘ |
| missionType | lunar lander mission element ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Vikram Sarabhai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
Indian Space Research Organisation
ⓘ
surface form:
ISRO
Indian Space Research Organisation ⓘ |
| orbitInsertion | entered lunar orbit with Chandrayaan-2 orbiter ⓘ |
| partOfMission | Chandrayaan-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| powerSource |
lithium-ion batteries
ⓘ
solar panels ⓘ |
| program | Indian Lunar Exploration Programme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propellantMass | 845 kg ⓘ |
| propulsion | throttleable liquid engines ⓘ |
| roleInMission | deliver Pragyan rover to lunar surface ⓘ |
| separationFromOrbiterDate | 2019-09-02 ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | Indian Space Research Organisation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | mission failed to achieve soft landing ⓘ |
| targetBody | Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetRegion | lunar south polar region ⓘ |
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: Vikram Description of subject: Vikram is the lunar lander of India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission, designed to attempt a soft landing near the Moon’s south polar region.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chandrayaan-2