Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building
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The Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building is a massive NASA facility in Florida used to assemble and prepare large launch vehicles, including Saturn V rockets and Space Shuttles, for space missions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building canonical | 2 |
| NASA Vehicle Assembly Building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3047111 — 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: Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building Context triple: [Charles Luckman Associates, notableWork, Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building]
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A is a historic Florida launch pad used for major U.S. crewed space missions, including Apollo Moon landings, Space Shuttle flights, and current SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches.
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B.
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B is a historic NASA launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast, originally built for Apollo missions and later used for Space Shuttle launches and current Artemis program flights.
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Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center is NASA’s primary launch complex for human spaceflight and robotic missions, located on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility
The Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility is a specialized runway complex in Florida designed for the return and landing of NASA’s Space Shuttle orbiters and other aerospace vehicles.
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Launch Complex 39
Launch Complex 39 is a major NASA launch facility at Kennedy Space Center, best known as the departure site for Apollo Moon missions and Space Shuttle flights.
- 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: Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building Target entity description: The Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building is a massive NASA facility in Florida used to assemble and prepare large launch vehicles, including Saturn V rockets and Space Shuttles, for space missions.
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A.
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A is a historic Florida launch pad used for major U.S. crewed space missions, including Apollo Moon landings, Space Shuttle flights, and current SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches.
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B.
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B is a historic NASA launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast, originally built for Apollo missions and later used for Space Shuttle launches and current Artemis program flights.
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C.
Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center is NASA’s primary launch complex for human spaceflight and robotic missions, located on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility
The Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility is a specialized runway complex in Florida designed for the return and landing of NASA’s Space Shuttle orbiters and other aerospace vehicles.
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E.
Launch Complex 39
Launch Complex 39 is a major NASA launch facility at Kennedy Space Center, best known as the departure site for Apollo Moon missions and Space Shuttle flights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA facility
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industrial building ⓘ landmark ⓘ rocket assembly building ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Launch Pad 39A
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linked to:
KSC LC-39A
Launch Pad 39B ⓘ
linked to:
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
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| alsoKnownAs |
VAB
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Vehicle Assembly Building ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1966 ⓘ |
| connectedBy | crawlerway ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1963 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| designedFor |
Saturn V launch vehicle
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linked to:
Saturn V
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| floorArea | about 32,374 square meters ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
crane systems
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high bay 1 ⓘ high bay 2 ⓘ high bay 3 ⓘ high bay 4 ⓘ low bay area ⓘ transfer aisle ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
final checks before rollout to launch pad
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mating of orbiter and external tank (historical) ⓘ stacking of solid rocket boosters ⓘ vehicle integration ⓘ |
| height |
about 160 meters
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about 525 feet ⓘ |
| length | about 218 meters ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brevard County
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Florida ⓘ Kennedy Space Center ⓘ Merritt Island ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableFor |
large American flag painted on exterior
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one of the largest buildings in the world by volume ⓘ |
| opened | 1966 ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| ownedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | Launch Complex 39 ⓘ |
| transportMethod | crawler-transporter ⓘ |
| usedDuringProgram |
Apollo program
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Apollo–Soyuz Test Project ⓘ Artemis program ⓘ Skylab program ⓘ Space Shuttle program ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Space Shuttle program
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| usedFor |
assembly of Saturn V rockets
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assembly of Space Shuttle stacks ⓘ integration of Space Launch System (SLS) rockets ⓘ integration of large launch vehicles ⓘ preparation of launch vehicles for rollout ⓘ vertical assembly of rockets ⓘ |
| width | about 158 meters ⓘ |
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: Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building Description of subject: The Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building is a massive NASA facility in Florida used to assemble and prepare large launch vehicles, including Saturn V rockets and Space Shuttles, for space missions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building