Luna 14
E551782
Luna 14 was a Soviet robotic spacecraft launched in 1968 to study the Moon’s gravitational field and test tracking and communication systems for future lunar missions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Luna 14 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5595805 — 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: Luna 14 Context triple: [Ye-6S, usedInMission, Luna 14]
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A.
Luna 11
Luna 11 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft from the Luna program, launched in 1966 to study the Moon from lunar orbit.
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B.
Luna 12
Luna 12 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft launched in 1966 that successfully entered lunar orbit and returned detailed photographs of the Moon’s surface.
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C.
Luna 20
Luna 20 was a Soviet robotic lunar sample-return mission that successfully collected and returned soil from the Moon’s surface in 1972.
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D.
Luna 10
Luna 10 was a Soviet spacecraft that became the first artificial satellite to orbit the Moon, marking a major milestone in early lunar exploration.
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E.
Luna 24
Luna 24 was a Soviet lunar sample-return mission launched in 1976 that successfully collected and brought back soil from the Moon’s surface.
- 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: Luna 14 Target entity description: Luna 14 was a Soviet robotic spacecraft launched in 1968 to study the Moon’s gravitational field and test tracking and communication systems for future lunar missions.
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A.
Luna 11
Luna 11 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft from the Luna program, launched in 1966 to study the Moon from lunar orbit.
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B.
Luna 12
Luna 12 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft launched in 1966 that successfully entered lunar orbit and returned detailed photographs of the Moon’s surface.
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C.
Luna 20
Luna 20 was a Soviet robotic lunar sample-return mission that successfully collected and returned soil from the Moon’s surface in 1972.
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D.
Luna 10
Luna 10 was a Soviet spacecraft that became the first artificial satellite to orbit the Moon, marking a major milestone in early lunar exploration.
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E.
Luna 24
Luna 24 was a Soviet lunar sample-return mission launched in 1976 that successfully collected and brought back soil from the Moon’s surface.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Luna programme spacecraft
ⓘ
lunar probe ⓘ |
| affiliation | Soviet Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crew | uncrewed ⓘ |
| enteredOrbitAround | Moon ⓘ |
| epoch | Space Race ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| followedBy | Luna 15 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1968-04-07 ⓘ |
| launchMass | ~1640 kilograms ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome
ⓘ
Site 31/6 Baikonur Cosmodrome ⓘ
linked to:
Baikonur Cosmodrome
|
| launchVehicle |
Molniya-M
ⓘ
linked to:
Molniya-M rocket
|
| launchYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Lavochkin Design Bureau
ⓘ
linked to:
Lavochkin design bureau
|
| missionObjective |
refine data for lunar spacecraft trajectory calculations
ⓘ
study the Moon’s gravitational field ⓘ support planning of crewed lunar missions ⓘ test communication systems for future lunar missions ⓘ test tracking systems for future lunar missions ⓘ |
| missionType | lunar orbiter ⓘ |
| natureOfMission |
scientific research
ⓘ
technology demonstration ⓘ |
| operator | Soviet space program ⓘ |
| orbitType | lunar orbit ⓘ |
| partOf | Soviet lunar exploration program ⓘ |
| precededBy | Luna 13 ⓘ |
| primaryDestination | Moon ⓘ |
| program | Luna programme ⓘ |
| scientificDiscipline |
celestial mechanics
ⓘ
lunar science ⓘ radio science ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | Soviet space agency ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | Ye-6S ⓘ |
| spacecraftConfiguration | orbiter only ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | robotic spacecraft ⓘ |
| status | mission completed ⓘ |
| studied | non-uniformities in the Moon’s gravitational field ⓘ |
| targetBody | Moon ⓘ |
| tested |
communication links between Moon and Earth
ⓘ
tracking techniques for lunar orbiters ⓘ |
| usedCommunicationBand | radio frequencies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
improving models of the Moon’s gravitational anomalies
ⓘ
improving tracking of lunar spacecraft from Earth ⓘ |
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: Luna 14 Description of subject: Luna 14 was a Soviet robotic spacecraft launched in 1968 to study the Moon’s gravitational field and test tracking and communication systems for future lunar missions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.