SLIM lunar lander
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The SLIM lunar lander is a Japanese spacecraft designed by JAXA to demonstrate high-precision, lightweight landing technology on the Moon’s surface.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Smart Lander for Investigating Moon | 2 |
| SLIM lunar lander canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T727720 — 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: SLIM lunar lander Context triple: [Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, operatorOf, SLIM lunar lander]
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A.
Apollo Lunar Module
The Apollo Lunar Module was the two-stage spacecraft used by NASA during the Apollo missions to land astronauts on the Moon and return them to lunar orbit.
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B.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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C.
Starship Human Landing System
The Starship Human Landing System is NASA’s selected lunar lander variant of SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft, designed to transport astronauts between lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface for Artemis missions.
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D.
ATV spacecraft
The ATV spacecraft was an automated European cargo vehicle designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station.
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E.
Starhopper
Starhopper is SpaceX’s early prototype test vehicle used to validate key technologies for the Starship launch system, particularly its Raptor engines and vertical takeoff and landing capabilities.
- 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: SLIM lunar lander Target entity description: The SLIM lunar lander is a Japanese spacecraft designed by JAXA to demonstrate high-precision, lightweight landing technology on the Moon’s surface.
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A.
Apollo Lunar Module
The Apollo Lunar Module was the two-stage spacecraft used by NASA during the Apollo missions to land astronauts on the Moon and return them to lunar orbit.
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B.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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C.
Starship Human Landing System
The Starship Human Landing System is NASA’s selected lunar lander variant of SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft, designed to transport astronauts between lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface for Artemis missions.
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D.
ATV spacecraft
The ATV spacecraft was an automated European cargo vehicle designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station.
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E.
Starhopper
Starhopper is SpaceX’s early prototype test vehicle used to validate key technologies for the Starship launch system, particularly its Raptor engines and vertical takeoff and landing capabilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
JAXA spacecraft
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lunar lander ⓘ spacecraft ⓘ |
| abbreviationOfAgency |
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
ⓘ
surface form:
JAXA
|
| acronym | SLIM ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
ⓘ
surface form:
Japan national space program
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| communicationType | deep space communication ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| designFeature |
autonomous landing guidance
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high-precision navigation system ⓘ lightweight structure ⓘ |
| destination | lunar surface ⓘ |
| explorationDomain | lunar exploration ⓘ |
| fullName |
SLIM lunar lander
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Smart Lander for Investigating Moon
|
| guidanceSystem | autonomous guidance and control ⓘ |
| hasLandingLegs | true ⓘ |
| isRobotic | true ⓘ |
| isUncrewed | true ⓘ |
| landingPrecisionGoal | order of tens of meters ⓘ |
| landingSiteType | lunar near-side region ⓘ |
| landingType | soft landing ⓘ |
| launchCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| launchSite | Tanegashima Space Center ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
H-IIA launch vehicle
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surface form:
H-IIA
|
| missionCategory | robotic lunar mission ⓘ |
| missionDesign | small, lightweight lunar lander ⓘ |
| missionGoal |
improve accuracy of lunar landing to within tens of meters
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validate pinpoint landing technologies for future missions ⓘ |
| missionRationale | develop precise landing capability for resource-rich or hazardous lunar regions ⓘ |
| missionRole | pathfinder for future lunar missions ⓘ |
| missionStatus | completed landing phase ⓘ |
| missionType | lunar lander technology demonstration ⓘ |
| navigationMethod | vision-based navigation ⓘ |
| operator |
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
ⓘ
surface form:
JAXA
|
| organizationTypeOfOperator | national space agency ⓘ |
| payloadType | technology demonstration payloads ⓘ |
| powerSource | solar power ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
demonstrate high-precision lunar landing
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demonstrate lightweight landing technology ⓘ |
| programAffiliation | Japanese lunar exploration program ⓘ |
| propulsionType | chemical propulsion ⓘ |
| scientificFocus | lunar surface exploration technologies ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ⓘ |
| spaceEnvironment | cislunar space ⓘ |
| targetBody | Moon ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
image-based navigation
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terrain-relative navigation ⓘ |
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: SLIM lunar lander Description of subject: The SLIM lunar lander is a Japanese spacecraft designed by JAXA to demonstrate high-precision, lightweight landing technology on the Moon’s surface.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
SLIM
this entity surface form:
Smart Lander for Investigating Moon