CONTOUR
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CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) was a NASA Discovery-class mission intended to study the nuclei of multiple comets through close flybys before it was lost shortly after launch in 2002.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CONTOUR canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7210428 — 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: CONTOUR Context triple: [NASA Discovery Program, mission, CONTOUR]
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A.
conte
Conte is the Italian noble title equivalent to a count, historically used to denote a rank of hereditary aristocracy.
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B.
Kontias
Kontias is a traditional village on the Greek island of Lemnos, known for its stone houses, windmills, and scenic coastal surroundings.
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C.
Mapam
Mapam was a left-wing socialist Zionist political party in Israel that played a significant role in the early decades of the state, particularly within the kibbutz movement and peace-oriented politics.
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D.
New Topographics
New Topographics is a 1970s photographic movement known for its detached, documentary-style depictions of banal, human-altered landscapes that challenged traditional notions of beauty in landscape photography.
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E.
Coconnas
Coconnas is a central fictional character in Alexandre Dumas’s historical novel "Queen Margot," known for his fiery temperament and involvement in the turbulent events of the French Wars of Religion.
- 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: CONTOUR Target entity description: CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) was a NASA Discovery-class mission intended to study the nuclei of multiple comets through close flybys before it was lost shortly after launch in 2002.
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A.
conte
Conte is the Italian noble title equivalent to a count, historically used to denote a rank of hereditary aristocracy.
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B.
Kontias
Kontias is a traditional village on the Greek island of Lemnos, known for its stone houses, windmills, and scenic coastal surroundings.
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C.
Mapam
Mapam was a left-wing socialist Zionist political party in Israel that played a significant role in the early decades of the state, particularly within the kibbutz movement and peace-oriented politics.
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D.
New Topographics
New Topographics is a 1970s photographic movement known for its detached, documentary-style depictions of banal, human-altered landscapes that challenged traditional notions of beauty in landscape photography.
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E.
Coconnas
Coconnas is a central fictional character in Alexandre Dumas’s historical novel "Queen Margot," known for his fiery temperament and involvement in the turbulent events of the French Wars of Religion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA Discovery-class mission
ⓘ
space probe ⓘ |
| category |
NASA space probe
ⓘ
comet exploration mission ⓘ failed space mission ⓘ |
| communicationBand | X-band ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| disappearanceCause | probable spacecraft breakup ⓘ |
| discoveryProgramMissionNumber | sixth Discovery mission ⓘ |
| failureDate | 2002-08-15 ⓘ |
| failureEvent | lost contact after solid rocket motor burn ⓘ |
| fullName | Comet Nucleus Tour ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2002-07-03 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral
|
| launchVehicle |
Delta II 7425
ⓘ
linked to:
Delta II
|
| lostContact | shortly after Earth-escape maneuver in 2002 ⓘ |
| managingCenter | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ⓘ |
| missionType |
comet flyby mission
ⓘ
planetary science mission ⓘ uncrewed space mission ⓘ |
| objective |
obtain high-resolution images of comet nuclei
ⓘ
perform in situ measurements of cometary material ⓘ study comet nuclei via close flybys ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitType | heliocentric trajectory planned ⓘ |
| plannedClosestApproachDistance | about 100 kilometers from comet nuclei ⓘ |
| plannedFlyby |
Comet 2P/Encke
ⓘ
linked to:
Encke's Comet
Comet 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 3 ⓘ |
| plannedMissionDuration | about 4 years ⓘ |
| powerSource | solar panels ⓘ |
| primeContractor | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ⓘ |
| program |
Discovery Program
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Discovery Program
|
| propulsion | solid rocket motor for orbit change ⓘ |
| result | no science data returned from comet flybys ⓘ |
| scienceInstruments |
dust analyzer
ⓘ
imaging system ⓘ spectrometers ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | Discovery-class spacecraft design ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | flyby probe ⓘ |
| status | mission lost ⓘ |
| target |
Comet 2P/Encke
ⓘ
linked to:
Encke's Comet
Comet 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 3 ⓘ |
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: CONTOUR Description of subject: CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) was a NASA Discovery-class mission intended to study the nuclei of multiple comets through close flybys before it was lost shortly after launch in 2002.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.