Soyuz 4
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Soyuz 4 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission notable for performing the first successful docking and crew transfer between two manned spacecraft in orbit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Soyuz 4 canonical | 1 |
| Soyuz 4–Soyuz 5 joint mission | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10998883 — 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 4 Context triple: [Soyuz program (early phase), notableMission, Soyuz 4]
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A.
Soyuz 3
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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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 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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D.
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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E.
Vostok 4
Vostok 4 was a 1962 Soviet crewed spaceflight that, together with Vostok 3, conducted the first simultaneous multi-spacecraft mission in 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 4 Target entity description: Soyuz 4 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission notable for performing the first successful docking and crew transfer between two manned spacecraft in orbit.
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A.
Soyuz 3
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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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 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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D.
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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E.
Vostok 4
Vostok 4 was a 1962 Soviet crewed spaceflight that, together with Vostok 3, conducted the first simultaneous multi-spacecraft mission in orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet space mission
ⓘ
Soyuz programme mission ⓘ crewed spaceflight mission ⓘ |
| callSign | Amur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Vladimir Shatalov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crewMember | Vladimir Shatalov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 1 ⓘ |
| crewTransferFromSpacecraft | Soyuz 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewTransferMethod | spacewalk ⓘ |
| crewTransferToSpacecraft | Soyuz 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockedWith | Soyuz 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockingDate | 1969-01-16 ⓘ |
| dockingPartner | Soyuz 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Space Race NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Soyuz 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1969-01-17 ⓘ |
| landingSite |
Kazakh SSR
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
near Karaganda ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1969-01-14 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome
ⓘ
Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 1/5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Soyuz rocket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | about 3 days ⓘ |
| missionEnd | 1969-01-17 ⓘ |
| missionObjective | test rendezvous and docking procedures for future Soviet space stations ⓘ |
| missionStart | 1969-01-14 ⓘ |
| missionType | test flight ⓘ |
| notableFor | first in-orbit transfer of crew between two spacecraft without landing ⓘ |
| operator | Soviet space program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbit | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| orbitalInclination | about 51.7 degrees ⓘ |
| performed |
first crew transfer between two spacecraft in orbit
ⓘ
first docking between two crewed spacecraft in orbit ⓘ |
| precededBy | Soyuz 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| program | Soyuz programme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| returnedCrewMember |
Aleksei Yeliseyev
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Boris Volynov NERFINISHED ⓘ Vladimir Shatalov NERFINISHED ⓘ Yevgeny Khrunov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | Soviet space program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | Soyuz 7K-OK NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | Soyuz 7K-OK NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | completed ⓘ |
| success | true ⓘ |
| transferredCrewFrom | Soyuz 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transferredCrewTo | Soyuz 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfSpaceflight | 1969 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 4 Description of subject: Soyuz 4 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission notable for performing the first successful docking and crew transfer between two manned spacecraft in orbit.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Soyuz 4–Soyuz 5 joint mission