Salyut 2
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Salyut 2 was a Soviet military space station launched in 1973 as part of the Almaz program, which failed shortly after reaching orbit due to structural and control system problems.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salyut 2 canonical | 3 |
| Salyut 2 space station (Almaz-derived) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12722420 — 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: Salyut 2 Context triple: [Salyut 1, successor, Salyut 2]
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A.
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.
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B.
Salyut 1
Salyut 1 was the world’s first space station, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971 as a pioneering long-duration orbital laboratory.
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C.
Soyuz 7
Soyuz 7 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission that formed part of an early three-ship orbital group flight to test rendezvous and docking operations in Earth orbit.
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D.
Soyuz 9
Soyuz 9 was a 1970 Soviet crewed spaceflight that set a then-record for human spaceflight duration and tested the limits of long-term living and working in orbit.
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E.
Soyuz 21
Soyuz 21 was a 1976 Soviet crewed spaceflight that transported cosmonauts to the Salyut 5 space station for a long-duration military-related mission.
- 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: Salyut 2 Target entity description: Salyut 2 was a Soviet military space station launched in 1973 as part of the Almaz program, which failed shortly after reaching orbit due to structural and control system problems.
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A.
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.
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B.
Salyut 1
Salyut 1 was the world’s first space station, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971 as a pioneering long-duration orbital laboratory.
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C.
Soyuz 7
Soyuz 7 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission that formed part of an early three-ship orbital group flight to test rendezvous and docking operations in Earth orbit.
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D.
Soyuz 9
Soyuz 9 was a 1970 Soviet crewed spaceflight that set a then-record for human spaceflight duration and tested the limits of long-term living and working in orbit.
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E.
Soyuz 21
Soyuz 21 was a 1976 Soviet crewed spaceflight that transported cosmonauts to the Salyut 5 space station for a long-duration military-related mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Almaz space station
ⓘ
Soviet space station ⓘ military space station ⓘ space station ⓘ |
| alternateDesignation | OPS-1 ⓘ |
| apogee | about 278 kilometres ⓘ |
| cosparId | 1973-017A ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crewCapacity | 3 ⓘ |
| decayDate | 1973-05-28 ⓘ |
| designOrigin | Almaz OPS design ⓘ |
| diameter | about 4.15 metres ⓘ |
| failure |
control system problems
ⓘ
depressurization ⓘ structural failure in orbit ⓘ |
| failureDate | 1973-04-14 ⓘ |
| hadDockingPortFor | Soyuz spacecraft ⓘ |
| hadPressurizedVolume | about 90 cubic metres ⓘ |
| inclination | about 51.6 degrees ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1973-04-03 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome
ⓘ
Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 81 ⓘ
linked to:
Baikonur Cosmodrome
|
| launchVehicle |
Proton-K rocket
ⓘ
linked to:
Proton rocket
|
| launchYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| length | about 14.55 metres ⓘ |
| lostCommunication | 1973-04-14 ⓘ |
| mass | 18000 kilograms ⓘ |
| noradId | 06698 ⓘ |
| operator |
Soviet Air Forces
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| orbitalLifetime | about 54 days ⓘ |
| orbitRegime | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| partOf |
Almaz program
ⓘ
linked to:
Almaz military program
Salyut programme ⓘ
linked to:
Salyut space stations
|
| perigee | about 257 kilometres ⓘ |
| powerSource | solar panels ⓘ |
| programRole | first Almaz station launched ⓘ |
| programType | military ⓘ |
| purpose | military reconnaissance ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | Soviet space program ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | space station ⓘ |
| status | failed mission ⓘ |
| wasFollowedBy | Salyut 3 ⓘ |
| wasPrecededBy | Salyut 1 ⓘ |
| wasUncrewed | true ⓘ |
| wasVisitedByCrew | no ⓘ |
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: Salyut 2 Description of subject: Salyut 2 was a Soviet military space station launched in 1973 as part of the Almaz program, which failed shortly after reaching orbit due to structural and control system problems.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Salyut 2