Spaceport America
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Spaceport America is a commercial spaceport in New Mexico designed for private spaceflight operations and space tourism.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spaceport America canonical | 10 |
| Spaceport America, New Mexico | 4 |
| New Mexico Spaceport Authority | 1 |
| Spaceport America launch complex | 1 |
| Spaceport America, New Mexico, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1804614 — 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: Spaceport America Context triple: [Virgin Galactic, operatesFrom, Spaceport America]
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A.
Mojave Air and Space Port
Mojave Air and Space Port is a civilian aerospace test center and spaceflight hub in California known for experimental aircraft development and commercial spaceflight activities.
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B.
White Sands Space Harbor (former Shuttle landing site)
White Sands Space Harbor is a runway complex in New Mexico that served as an alternate landing site for NASA’s Space Shuttle program.
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C.
Columbia Memorial Space Center
Columbia Memorial Space Center is a science and space exploration museum and educational facility in Downey, California, dedicated to honoring the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew while promoting STEM learning.
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D.
Starbase, Boca Chica, Texas
Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas is SpaceX’s primary private spaceport and development facility for testing and launching next-generation rockets such as Starship.
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E.
Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center is NASA’s primary launch complex for human spaceflight and robotic missions, located on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
- 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: Spaceport America Target entity description: Spaceport America is a commercial spaceport in New Mexico designed for private spaceflight operations and space tourism.
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A.
Mojave Air and Space Port
Mojave Air and Space Port is a civilian aerospace test center and spaceflight hub in California known for experimental aircraft development and commercial spaceflight activities.
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B.
White Sands Space Harbor (former Shuttle landing site)
White Sands Space Harbor is a runway complex in New Mexico that served as an alternate landing site for NASA’s Space Shuttle program.
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C.
Columbia Memorial Space Center
Columbia Memorial Space Center is a science and space exploration museum and educational facility in Downey, California, dedicated to honoring the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew while promoting STEM learning.
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D.
Starbase, Boca Chica, Texas
Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas is SpaceX’s primary private spaceport and development facility for testing and launching next-generation rockets such as Starship.
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E.
Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center is NASA’s primary launch complex for human spaceflight and robotic missions, located on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial spaceport
ⓘ
spaceport ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 2006 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| designedFor |
horizontal takeoff and landing vehicles
ⓘ
reusable spacecraft operations ⓘ vertical launch vehicles ⓘ |
| distanceFrom |
approximately 72 kilometers south of Truth or Consequences
ⓘ
approximately 90 kilometers north of Las Cruces ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 1,400 meters
ⓘ
approximately 4,600 feet ⓘ |
| FAAlicenseType | spaceport license ⓘ |
| firstFullyCrewedSuborbitalFlightFrom | 2021 ⓘ |
| firstPoweredSpaceflightFrom | 2018 ⓘ |
| fundedBy |
State of New Mexico bonds
ⓘ
local county taxes ⓘ |
| hasArchitect |
Foster + Partners
ⓘ
URBAN Design ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
horizontal launch runway
ⓘ
mission control center ⓘ payload processing facilities ⓘ vertical launch complex ⓘ visitor center ⓘ |
| hasIATAcode | none ⓘ |
| hasICAOcode | 9NM9 ⓘ |
| hasLaunchPad | vertical launch area Spaceport America ⓘ |
| hasMainBuilding |
Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space
ⓘ
linked to:
Virgin Galactic
|
| inaugurationDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New Mexico
ⓘ
Sierra County, New Mexico ⓘ |
| marketingSlogan | the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport ⓘ |
| near |
Las Cruces, New Mexico
ⓘ
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico ⓘ |
| offers | public tours ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
New Mexico Spaceport Authority
ⓘ
linked to:
Spaceport America
|
| ownedBy |
State of New Mexico
ⓘ
linked to:
New Mexico
|
| primaryUse |
commercial spaceflight
ⓘ
space tourism ⓘ suborbital launches ⓘ |
| region |
Jornada del Muerto desert basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Jornada del Muerto desert
|
| regulatoryAuthority | Federal Aviation Administration ⓘ |
| runwayDesignation | 16/34 ⓘ |
| runwayLength |
approximately 12,000 feet
ⓘ
approximately 3,660 meters ⓘ |
| runwaySurface | concrete ⓘ |
| tenant |
SpinLaunch
ⓘ
UP Aerospace ⓘ Virgin Galactic ⓘ |
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: Spaceport America Description of subject: Spaceport America is a commercial spaceport in New Mexico designed for private spaceflight operations and space tourism.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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