Surveyor program
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The Surveyor program was a series of unmanned NASA lunar missions in the 1960s designed to demonstrate soft landings on the Moon and gather data to support the Apollo crewed landings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Surveyor program canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2494595 — 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: Surveyor program Context triple: [Atlas, usedInProgram, Surveyor program]
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A.
Spirit rover
Spirit rover was a NASA robotic exploration vehicle that conducted geological studies on the surface of Mars as part of the Mars Exploration Rover mission.
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B.
Voyager program
The Voyager program is a NASA mission that launched the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1977 to explore the outer planets and interstellar space, becoming one of humanity’s most significant and long-lived space exploration efforts.
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C.
Luna programme
The Luna programme was a series of Soviet robotic space missions in the late 1950s through the 1970s aimed primarily at exploring and studying the Moon.
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D.
InSight Mars lander
The InSight Mars lander was a NASA robotic mission designed to study the interior structure and seismic activity of Mars to better understand the formation and evolution of rocky planets.
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E.
Mars Exploration Rover mission
The Mars Exploration Rover mission was a NASA program that sent the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity to Mars to study the planet’s geology and past water activity, achieving far longer and more scientifically productive operations than originally planned.
- 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: Surveyor program Target entity description: The Surveyor program was a series of unmanned NASA lunar missions in the 1960s designed to demonstrate soft landings on the Moon and gather data to support the Apollo crewed landings.
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A.
Spirit rover
Spirit rover was a NASA robotic exploration vehicle that conducted geological studies on the surface of Mars as part of the Mars Exploration Rover mission.
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B.
Voyager program
The Voyager program is a NASA mission that launched the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1977 to explore the outer planets and interstellar space, becoming one of humanity’s most significant and long-lived space exploration efforts.
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C.
Luna programme
The Luna programme was a series of Soviet robotic space missions in the late 1950s through the 1970s aimed primarily at exploring and studying the Moon.
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D.
InSight Mars lander
The InSight Mars lander was a NASA robotic mission designed to study the interior structure and seismic activity of Mars to better understand the formation and evolution of rocky planets.
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E.
Mars Exploration Rover mission
The Mars Exploration Rover mission was a NASA program that sent the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity to Mars to study the planet’s geology and past water activity, achieving far longer and more scientifically productive operations than originally planned.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA program
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lunar exploration program ⓘ uncrewed spaceflight program ⓘ |
| collectedDataType |
lunar soil mechanical properties
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lunar surface composition data ⓘ lunar surface photography ⓘ thermal properties of lunar surface ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| endTime | 1968 ⓘ |
| era | Space Race ⓘ |
| firstLandingDate | 1966-06-02 ⓘ |
| firstLaunchDate | 1966-05-30 ⓘ |
| firstMission | Surveyor 1 ⓘ |
| fundedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| lastLandingDate | 1968-01-10 ⓘ |
| lastMission | Surveyor 7 ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Atlas-Centaur ⓘ |
| locationOfOperations | Jet Propulsion Laboratory ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Hughes Aircraft Company ⓘ |
| missionDesignation |
Surveyor 1
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Surveyor 2 ⓘ Surveyor 3 ⓘ Surveyor 4 ⓘ Surveyor 5 ⓘ Surveyor 6 ⓘ Surveyor 7 ⓘ |
| notableResult |
first U.S. soft landing on the Moon
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provided landing site data for Apollo 11 ⓘ |
| numberOfMissions | 7 ⓘ |
| numberOfSuccessfulMissions | 5 ⓘ |
| objective |
demonstrate soft landing on the Moon
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gather lunar surface data for Apollo program ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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linked to:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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| partOf | United States lunar exploration program ⓘ |
| relatedProgram |
Apollo program
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Lunar Orbiter program ⓘ Ranger program ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | lunar lander ⓘ |
| startTime | 1963 ⓘ |
| supportsProgram | Apollo program ⓘ |
| target | Moon ⓘ |
| technologyDemonstrated |
automated lunar landing radar guidance
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vernier engine soft-landing system ⓘ |
| usedInstrument |
alpha-scattering instrument
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beta-scattering instrument ⓘ gamma-ray spectrometer ⓘ soil mechanics surface sampler ⓘ television camera ⓘ |
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: Surveyor program Description of subject: The Surveyor program was a series of unmanned NASA lunar missions in the 1960s designed to demonstrate soft landings on the Moon and gather data to support the Apollo crewed landings.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.