Soyuz 3
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Soyuz 3 was a 1968 Soviet crewed spaceflight that attempted the first docking of two Soyuz spacecraft in orbit, marking an important early milestone in the Soyuz program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Soyuz 3 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10998882 — 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: Soyuz 3 Context triple: [Soyuz program (early phase), notableMission, Soyuz 3]
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A.
Soyuz 1
Soyuz 1 was a 1967 Soviet crewed spaceflight notable for its fatal crash that killed cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov and exposed serious design flaws in the early Soyuz program.
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B.
Soyuz 19
Soyuz 19 was the Soviet spacecraft that participated in the historic 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, enabling the first international crewed space docking between the USSR and the United States.
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C.
Vostok 3
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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D.
Soyuz 18
Soyuz 18 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft mission in the mid-1970s that experienced a serious launch abort and is often noted for its dramatic emergency reentry and safe recovery of the cosmonauts.
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E.
Vostok 6
Vostok 6 was a 1963 Soviet crewed spaceflight that carried Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, into low Earth orbit.
- 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: Soyuz 3 Target entity description: Soyuz 3 was a 1968 Soviet crewed spaceflight that attempted the first docking of two Soyuz spacecraft in orbit, marking an important early milestone in the Soyuz program.
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A.
Soyuz 1
Soyuz 1 was a 1967 Soviet crewed spaceflight notable for its fatal crash that killed cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov and exposed serious design flaws in the early Soyuz program.
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B.
Soyuz 19
Soyuz 19 was the Soviet spacecraft that participated in the historic 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, enabling the first international crewed space docking between the USSR and the United States.
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C.
Vostok 3
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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D.
Soyuz 18
Soyuz 18 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft mission in the mid-1970s that experienced a serious launch abort and is often noted for its dramatic emergency reentry and safe recovery of the cosmonauts.
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E.
Vostok 6
Vostok 6 was a 1963 Soviet crewed spaceflight that carried Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, into low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet spaceflight
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Soyuz mission ⓘ crewed spaceflight ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Soviet crewed lunar program (test phase) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callsign | Buran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Georgy Beregovoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crewCapacityOfSpacecraftType | 3 ⓘ |
| crewMember | Georgy Beregovoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 1 ⓘ |
| crewSurvived | true ⓘ |
| designerBureau | Sergei Korolev Design Bureau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockingAttemptedWith | Soyuz 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockingResult | no hard docking achieved ⓘ |
| dockingTargetStatus | uncrewed target spacecraft ⓘ |
| era | Space Race NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Soyuz 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
early milestone in the Soyuz program
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first Soviet attempt at crewed docking of two spacecraft ⓘ |
| isUncrewedCompanionMission | Soyuz 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1968-10-26 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Baikonur Cosmodrome ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Soyuz rocket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 3 days ⓘ |
| missionObjective |
attempt first docking of two Soyuz spacecraft in orbit
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test Soyuz 7K-OK crewed spacecraft ⓘ |
| missionOutcome | partial success ⓘ |
| missionType |
orbital flight
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test flight ⓘ |
| operator | Soviet space program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbit | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| precededBy | Soyuz 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| program | Soyuz program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rendezvousPerformedWith | Soyuz 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| returnType | land landing ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | Soviet space program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftConfiguration |
descent module
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orbital module ⓘ service module ⓘ |
| spacecraftManufacturer | OKB-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftSeries | Soyuz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | Soyuz 7K-OK NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| technologyDemonstrated |
manual spacecraft control in proximity operations
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orbital rendezvous procedures ⓘ |
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: Soyuz 3 Description of subject: Soyuz 3 was a 1968 Soviet crewed spaceflight that attempted the first docking of two Soyuz spacecraft in orbit, marking an important early milestone in the Soyuz program.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.