Apollo 16
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Apollo 16 was a 1972 NASA crewed mission that successfully landed astronauts on the Moon’s Descartes Highlands to conduct extensive scientific exploration and experiments.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apollo 16 canonical | 50 |
| Apollo 16 mission | 6 |
| Apollo 16 lunar surface operations | 2 |
| Apollo 16 Moon landing | 1 |
| Apollo 16 crew | 1 |
| Apollo 16 lunar landing | 1 |
| Apollo 16 lunar mission | 1 |
| Apollo 16 mission hardware | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T363979 — 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: Apollo 16 Context triple: [Apollo program, lunarLandingMission, Apollo 16]
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A.
Apollo 15
Apollo 15 was a 1971 NASA crewed mission that conducted extended scientific exploration of the Moon, including the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the lunar surface.
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B.
Apollo 17
Apollo 17 was the final crewed mission of NASA’s Apollo program, notable for its extended lunar surface stay, extensive scientific exploration, and the last human footsteps on the Moon to date.
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C.
Apollo 14
Apollo 14 was NASA’s 1971 crewed mission that successfully returned astronauts to the Moon, notable for precision lunar landing and extensive surface exploration following the Apollo 13 accident.
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D.
Apollo 12
Apollo 12 was NASA’s second crewed mission to land humans on the Moon, notable for its precise landing near the Surveyor 3 probe in November 1969.
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E.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the historic 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon and safely returned them to Earth.
- 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: Apollo 16 Target entity description: Apollo 16 was a 1972 NASA crewed mission that successfully landed astronauts on the Moon’s Descartes Highlands to conduct extensive scientific exploration and experiments.
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A.
Apollo 15
Apollo 15 was a 1971 NASA crewed mission that conducted extended scientific exploration of the Moon, including the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the lunar surface.
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B.
Apollo 17
Apollo 17 was the final crewed mission of NASA’s Apollo program, notable for its extended lunar surface stay, extensive scientific exploration, and the last human footsteps on the Moon to date.
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C.
Apollo 14
Apollo 14 was NASA’s 1971 crewed mission that successfully returned astronauts to the Moon, notable for precision lunar landing and extensive surface exploration following the Apollo 13 accident.
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D.
Apollo 12
Apollo 12 was NASA’s second crewed mission to land humans on the Moon, notable for its precise landing near the Surveyor 3 probe in November 1969.
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E.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the historic 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon and safely returned them to Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Apollo 16 Description of subject: Apollo 16 was a 1972 NASA crewed mission that successfully landed astronauts on the Moon’s Descartes Highlands to conduct extensive scientific exploration and experiments.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Apollo 16
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linked to: Apollo 16
linked to: Apollo 16
linked to: Apollo 16
linked to: Apollo 16
linked to: Apollo 16
linked to: Apollo 16
subject linked to:
John Young
subject linked to:
Saturn V instrument unit
subject linked to:
crater Mendeleev on the Moon
linked to: Apollo 16
linked to: Apollo 16