Aurora 7
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Aurora 7 was the NASA Mercury spacecraft piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter on the United States’ second crewed orbital spaceflight in 1962.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aurora 7 canonical | 11 |
| Aurora 7 mission | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6104438 — 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: Aurora 7 Context triple: [Scott Carpenter, spacecraft, Aurora 7]
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A.
Soyuz 19
Soyuz 19 was the Soviet spacecraft that participated in the historic 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, enabling the first international crewed space docking between the USSR and the United States.
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B.
Salyut 7
Salyut 7 was a Soviet-era modular space station that served as one of the last and most advanced stations in the Salyut program, paving the way for the later Mir space station.
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C.
Vostok 6
Vostok 6 was a 1963 Soviet crewed spaceflight that carried Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, into low Earth orbit.
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D.
Vostok 4
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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E.
Soyuz 1
Soyuz 1 was a 1967 Soviet crewed spaceflight notable for its fatal crash that killed cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov and exposed serious design flaws in the early Soyuz program.
- 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: Aurora 7 Target entity description: Aurora 7 was the NASA Mercury spacecraft piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter on the United States’ second crewed orbital spaceflight in 1962.
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A.
Soyuz 19
Soyuz 19 was the Soviet spacecraft that participated in the historic 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, enabling the first international crewed space docking between the USSR and the United States.
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B.
Salyut 7
Salyut 7 was a Soviet-era modular space station that served as one of the last and most advanced stations in the Salyut program, paving the way for the later Mir space station.
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C.
Vostok 6
Vostok 6 was a 1963 Soviet crewed spaceflight that carried Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, into low Earth orbit.
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D.
Vostok 4
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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E.
Soyuz 1
Soyuz 1 was a 1967 Soviet crewed spaceflight notable for its fatal crash that killed cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov and exposed serious design flaws in the early Soyuz program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Mercury spacecraft ⓘ |
| astronaut | Scott Carpenter ⓘ |
| astronautNationality | American ⓘ |
| callsign | Aurora 7 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewMember | Scott Carpenter ⓘ |
| crewSize | 1 ⓘ |
| crewSurvived | true ⓘ |
| followedBy | Sigma 7 ⓘ |
| heatShieldType | ablative heat shield ⓘ |
| issue |
fuel consumption higher than planned
ⓘ
landing occurred off-target ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1962-05-24 ⓘ |
| landingDistanceFromPlanned | about 400 kilometers off course ⓘ |
| landingSite | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1962-05-24 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14
ⓘ
Cape Canaveral, Florida ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral
|
| launchVehicle | Atlas LV-3B ⓘ |
| massAtLaunch | approximately 1,400 kilograms ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 4 hours 56 minutes ⓘ |
| missionNumber | MA-7 ⓘ |
| missionObjective |
evaluation of spacecraft systems on multiple orbits
ⓘ
observation of Earth and space from orbit ⓘ scientific experiments in orbit ⓘ |
| missionOutcome | partially successful ⓘ |
| missionType | crewed orbital spaceflight ⓘ |
| notableFor |
first and only spaceflight of astronaut Scott Carpenter
ⓘ
second United States crewed orbital spaceflight ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitApogee | about 267 kilometers ⓘ |
| orbitInclination | about 32.5 degrees ⓘ |
| orbitPerigee | about 161 kilometers ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 3 ⓘ |
| pilot | Scott Carpenter ⓘ |
| precededBy | Friendship 7 ⓘ |
| program |
Project Mercury
ⓘ
linked to:
Mercury program
|
| recoveryBy |
USS Intrepid
ⓘ
linked to:
USS Intrepid (CV-11)
USS John R. Pierce ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraftConfiguration | single-crew Mercury capsule ⓘ |
| spacecraftManufacturer |
McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
McDonnell Douglas
|
| spacecraftSeries | Mercury ⓘ |
| spaceflightOrderUS | second crewed orbital flight by the United States ⓘ |
| spaceflightOrderWorld | fourth crewed orbital flight in history ⓘ |
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: Aurora 7 Description of subject: Aurora 7 was the NASA Mercury spacecraft piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter on the United States’ second crewed orbital spaceflight in 1962.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.