Vostok 4
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Vostok 4 was a 1962 Soviet crewed spaceflight that, together with Vostok 3, conducted the first simultaneous multi-spacecraft mission in orbit.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1855085 — 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: Vostok 4 Context triple: [Vostok-K rocket, usedInMission, Vostok 4]
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A.
Vostok 1
Vostok 1 was the Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight, marking humanity’s inaugural journey into outer space in 1961.
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B.
Voskhod spacecraft
The Voskhod spacecraft was a Soviet crewed space capsule that succeeded Vostok and enabled milestones such as the first multi-person crewed mission and the first spacewalk during the early space race.
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C.
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 and marking the beginning of the space age.
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D.
Sputnik 2
Sputnik 2 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1957 that became famous for carrying Laika, the first living creature to orbit the Earth.
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E.
Vostok-2 rocket
The Vostok-2 rocket was a Soviet expendable launch vehicle derived from the R-7 family, used primarily in the early 1960s to launch reconnaissance and scientific satellites into low Earth 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: Vostok 4 Target entity description: Vostok 4 was a 1962 Soviet crewed spaceflight that, together with Vostok 3, conducted the first simultaneous multi-spacecraft mission in orbit.
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A.
Vostok 1
Vostok 1 was the Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight, marking humanity’s inaugural journey into outer space in 1961.
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B.
Voskhod spacecraft
The Voskhod spacecraft was a Soviet crewed space capsule that succeeded Vostok and enabled milestones such as the first multi-person crewed mission and the first spacewalk during the early space race.
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C.
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 and marking the beginning of the space age.
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D.
Sputnik 2
Sputnik 2 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1957 that became famous for carrying Laika, the first living creature to orbit the Earth.
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E.
Vostok-2 rocket
The Vostok-2 rocket was a Soviet expendable launch vehicle derived from the R-7 family, used primarily in the early 1960s to launch reconnaissance and scientific satellites into low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Vostok programme mission
ⓘ
crewed spaceflight ⓘ spacecraft mission ⓘ |
| achieved | first simultaneous multi-spacecraft mission in orbit ⓘ |
| apogeeAltitude | approximately 238 kilometers ⓘ |
| biomedicalExperiment | monitoring of cosmonaut cardiovascular and physiological state ⓘ |
| callsign | Berkut ⓘ |
| closestApproachDistance | approximately 5 kilometers ⓘ |
| commander | Pavel Popovich ⓘ |
| communicationExperiment | ship-to-ship radio communications with Vostok 3 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crewEVA | no extravehicular activity performed ⓘ |
| crewMember | Pavel Popovich ⓘ |
| crewNationality | Soviet ⓘ |
| crewSeat | ejection seat ⓘ |
| crewSize | 1 ⓘ |
| designer | Sergei Korolev ⓘ |
| flownWith |
Vostok 3
ⓘ
linked to:
Vostok 4
|
| followedBy | Vostok 5 ⓘ |
| inclination | 65.0 degrees ⓘ |
| landingCountry | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1962-08-15 ⓘ |
| landingMethod | cosmonaut ejected and landed by parachute ⓘ |
| landingRegion | Kazakh SSR ⓘ |
| languageOfOperations | Russian ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1962-08-12 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 1/5
ⓘ
linked to:
Baikonur Cosmodrome
|
| launchVehicle | Vostok-K rocket ⓘ |
| lifeSupport | closed-loop environmental control system ⓘ |
| missionDuration | approximately 70 hours ⓘ |
| missionObjective |
conduct simultaneous multi-spacecraft operations with Vostok 3
ⓘ
perform biomedical and scientific experiments in orbit ⓘ study human performance and communication in multi-ship flight ⓘ |
| missionStatus | successful ⓘ |
| notableFor | early demonstration of controlled multi-spacecraft operations ⓘ |
| operator | Soviet space program ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod | approximately 88.5 minutes ⓘ |
| orbitRegime | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 48 ⓘ |
| perigeeAltitude | approximately 177 kilometers ⓘ |
| precededBy | Vostok 3 ⓘ |
| program | Vostok programme ⓘ |
| relativeClosestApproachTo | Vostok 3 ⓘ |
| spacecraftConfiguration | single-seat spherical reentry capsule with instrument module ⓘ |
| spacecraftManufacturer | OKB-1 ⓘ |
| spacecraftType |
Vostok 3KA
ⓘ
linked to:
Vostok spacecraft
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| yearOfSpaceflight | 1962 ⓘ |
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: Vostok 4 Description of subject: Vostok 4 was a 1962 Soviet crewed spaceflight that, together with Vostok 3, conducted the first simultaneous multi-spacecraft mission in orbit.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Vostok 4
linked to: Vostok 4