Space Shuttle landings
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Space Shuttle landings were the controlled, unpowered gliding descents and runway touchdowns of NASA’s reusable orbiter vehicles at the end of their space missions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Space Shuttle landings canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7570904 — 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: Space Shuttle landings Context triple: [QQS, usedFor, Space Shuttle landings]
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A.
Space Shuttle approach and landing tests
Space Shuttle approach and landing tests were a series of 1977 flight and glide trials using the prototype orbiter Enterprise to validate the shuttle’s unpowered landing characteristics and overall flight performance before operational missions.
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B.
Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle was NASA’s reusable spacecraft system used from 1981 to 2011 to carry astronauts and cargo to low Earth orbit, including missions to the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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C.
Space Shuttle stack
The Space Shuttle stack was the fully assembled launch configuration of NASA’s Space Shuttle system, consisting of the orbiter, external fuel tank, and solid rocket boosters mounted together for liftoff.
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D.
The Shuttle
"The Shuttle" is a 1907 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett that explores transatlantic marriages between wealthy American women and impoverished British aristocrats, highlighting themes of power, class, and female resilience.
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E.
Space Shuttle ISS assembly flights
Space Shuttle ISS assembly flights were a series of NASA Space Shuttle missions dedicated to constructing, outfitting, and supplying the International Space Station in low Earth orbit.
- 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: Space Shuttle landings Target entity description: Space Shuttle landings were the controlled, unpowered gliding descents and runway touchdowns of NASA’s reusable orbiter vehicles at the end of their space missions.
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A.
Space Shuttle approach and landing tests
Space Shuttle approach and landing tests were a series of 1977 flight and glide trials using the prototype orbiter Enterprise to validate the shuttle’s unpowered landing characteristics and overall flight performance before operational missions.
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B.
Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle was NASA’s reusable spacecraft system used from 1981 to 2011 to carry astronauts and cargo to low Earth orbit, including missions to the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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C.
Space Shuttle stack
The Space Shuttle stack was the fully assembled launch configuration of NASA’s Space Shuttle system, consisting of the orbiter, external fuel tank, and solid rocket boosters mounted together for liftoff.
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D.
The Shuttle
"The Shuttle" is a 1907 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett that explores transatlantic marriages between wealthy American women and impoverished British aristocrats, highlighting themes of power, class, and female resilience.
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E.
Space Shuttle ISS assembly flights
Space Shuttle ISS assembly flights were a series of NASA Space Shuttle missions dedicated to constructing, outfitting, and supplying the International Space Station in low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
component of Space Shuttle program
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glide landing ⓘ spaceflight procedure ⓘ unpowered aircraft landing ⓘ |
| backupLandingSite |
Edwards Air Force Base
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White Sands Space Harbor ⓘ |
| differentFrom |
powered aircraft landings
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vertical capsule splashdowns ⓘ |
| endTime | 2011 ⓘ |
| follows |
Space Shuttle reentry phase
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deorbit burn ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
energy management critical
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gliding approach ⓘ high sink rate ⓘ manual piloting in final phase ⓘ runway touchdown ⓘ steep approach path ⓘ unpowered descent ⓘ |
| hasPart |
drag chute deployment
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final approach ⓘ flare maneuver ⓘ heading alignment circle ⓘ main gear touchdown ⓘ nose gear touchdown ⓘ rollout ⓘ |
| location |
Edwards Air Force Base
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Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility ⓘ White Sands Space Harbor ⓘ |
| mainLandingSite | Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility ⓘ |
| notableLanding |
STS-1 landing at Edwards Air Force Base
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final Space Shuttle landing STS-135 at Kennedy Space Center ⓘ |
| partOf | Space Shuttle mission profile ⓘ |
| performedBy |
NASA
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Space Shuttle commander ⓘ Space Shuttle orbiter ⓘ Space Shuttle pilot ⓘ |
| requires |
accurate weather forecasting
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precise energy management ⓘ runway length over 4,500 meters ⓘ |
| startTime | 1981 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
recovering Space Shuttle orbiters at end of missions
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returning astronauts from orbit to Earth ⓘ reusing Space Shuttle orbiters for subsequent missions ⓘ |
| uses |
Instrument Landing System
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linked to:
ILS
aerodynamic control surfaces ⓘ autoland guidance systems ⓘ drag chute ⓘ landing gear ⓘ microwave landing system ⓘ runway ⓘ |
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: Space Shuttle landings Description of subject: Space Shuttle landings were the controlled, unpowered gliding descents and runway touchdowns of NASA’s reusable orbiter vehicles at the end of their space missions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.