Russian space station Mir
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The Russian space station Mir was a modular, long-duration orbital research outpost that served as the centerpiece of Soviet and later Russian human spaceflight from the mid-1980s until its deorbit in 2001.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Russian space station Mir canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11683777 — 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: Russian space station Mir Context triple: [STS-81, destination, Russian space station Mir]
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A.
Salyut space stations
The Salyut space stations were a series of Soviet orbital laboratories launched in the 1970s and 1980s that pioneered long-duration human spaceflight and scientific research in low Earth orbit.
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B.
Russkaya Station
Russkaya Station is a former Soviet and Russian research base in Antarctica used primarily for scientific studies of the polar environment and climate.
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C.
International Space Station
The International Space Station is a permanently crewed modular space laboratory in low Earth orbit that serves as a multinational research facility and technology testbed.
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Profsoyuznaya station
Profsoyuznaya station is a stop on the Volgograd Metrotram light rail system in Volgograd, Russia.
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E.
Salyut 7
Salyut 7 was a Soviet-era modular space station that served as one of the last and most advanced stations in the Salyut program, paving the way for the later Mir space station.
- 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: Russian space station Mir Target entity description: The Russian space station Mir was a modular, long-duration orbital research outpost that served as the centerpiece of Soviet and later Russian human spaceflight from the mid-1980s until its deorbit in 2001.
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A.
Salyut space stations
The Salyut space stations were a series of Soviet orbital laboratories launched in the 1970s and 1980s that pioneered long-duration human spaceflight and scientific research in low Earth orbit.
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B.
Russkaya Station
Russkaya Station is a former Soviet and Russian research base in Antarctica used primarily for scientific studies of the polar environment and climate.
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C.
International Space Station
The International Space Station is a permanently crewed modular space laboratory in low Earth orbit that serves as a multinational research facility and technology testbed.
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D.
Profsoyuznaya station
Profsoyuznaya station is a stop on the Volgograd Metrotram light rail system in Volgograd, Russia.
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Salyut 7
Salyut 7 was a Soviet-era modular space station that served as one of the last and most advanced stations in the Salyut program, paving the way for the later Mir space station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (76)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
modular space station
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orbital research station ⓘ space station ⓘ |
| actualOperationalLife | about 15 years ⓘ |
| apogeeAltitude | approximately 374 km ⓘ |
| configuration | modular ⓘ |
| coreModule | Mir Core Module ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| deorbitControlledBy | Progress M1-5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deorbitDate | 2001-03-23 ⓘ |
| designLife | 5 years ⓘ |
| firstCommander | Leonid Kizim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstCrewArrivalDate | 1986-03-13 ⓘ |
| firstCrewMission | Soyuz T-15 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstFlightEngineer | Vladimir Solovyov GENERATED ⓘ |
| firstModuleLaunchDate | 1986-02-20 ⓘ |
| followedBy | International Space Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
first continuously inhabited long-term modular space station
ⓘ
served as main platform for Soviet and Russian human spaceflight in late 20th century ⓘ |
| hostedAstronautsFrom |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
France NERFINISHED ⓘ Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ other countries ⓘ |
| inclination | 51.6 degrees ⓘ |
| internationalCooperation |
Interkosmos program
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shuttle–Mir Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Russian ⓘ |
| lastModuleLaunchDate | 1996-04-23 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1986-02-20 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome
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Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 200/39 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Proton-K rocket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | about 19 meters ⓘ |
| longestSingleStayDuration | 437.7 days ⓘ |
| module |
Docking Module
ⓘ
Kristall NERFINISHED ⓘ Kvant-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Kvant-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mir Core Module NERFINISHED ⓘ Priroda NERFINISHED ⓘ Spektr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameMeaning |
peace
ⓘ
world ⓘ |
| notableIncident |
1997-02-23 onboard fire in Kvant-1
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1997-06-25 collision with Progress M-34 ⓘ |
| notableProgram | Phase 1 Shuttle–Mir Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
Russian space program
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Soviet space program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitalInsertionDate | 1986-02-20 ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod | about 92 minutes ⓘ |
| orbitalStatus | deorbited ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| perigeeAltitude | approximately 354 km ⓘ |
| precededBy | Salyut 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pressurizedVolume | about 350 cubic meters ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
Earth observation
ⓘ
long-duration human spaceflight ⓘ microgravity research ⓘ technology demonstration ⓘ |
| recordHolderForLongestSingleStay | Valeri Polyakov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reentryDate | 2001-03-23 ⓘ |
| reentryLocation | South Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceAgency |
RKK Energia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roscosmos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spanWithSolarArrays | about 31 meters ⓘ |
| totalMass | approximately 130000 kg ⓘ |
| totalNumberOfCrewedExpeditions | 28 ⓘ |
| totalNumberOfSpacewalks | 80+ ⓘ |
| totalNumberOfVisitors | 100+ ⓘ |
| visitingVehicle |
Progress
NERFINISHED
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Soyuz NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Russian space station Mir Description of subject: The Russian space station Mir was a modular, long-duration orbital research outpost that served as the centerpiece of Soviet and later Russian human spaceflight from the mid-1980s until its deorbit in 2001.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.