Base 25
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Base 25 is a major Chinese spaceport and ballistic missile test facility located near Taiyuan in Shanxi Province, used primarily for launching satellites into polar and sun-synchronous orbits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Base 25 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7871183 — 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: Base 25 Context triple: [Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, alsoKnownAs, Base 25]
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A.
Base 31
Base 31 is a unit-level installation within China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force, likely involved in space, cyber, electronic, or information warfare operations.
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B.
Base 27
Base 27 is a unit within China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force, likely involved in specialized missions related to space, cyber, electronic, or information warfare.
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C.
Base 26
Base 26 is a military installation under China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force, likely involved in space, cyber, electronic, or information warfare operations.
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D.
Base 30
Base 30 is a unit-level installation within China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force, likely involved in space, cyber, electronic, or information warfare operations.
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E.
Base 37
Base 37 is a unit within China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force, likely involved in specialized missions related to space, cyber, electronic, or information warfare.
- 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: Base 25 Target entity description: Base 25 is a major Chinese spaceport and ballistic missile test facility located near Taiyuan in Shanxi Province, used primarily for launching satellites into polar and sun-synchronous orbits.
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A.
Base 31
Base 31 is a unit-level installation within China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force, likely involved in space, cyber, electronic, or information warfare operations.
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B.
Base 27
Base 27 is a unit within China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force, likely involved in specialized missions related to space, cyber, electronic, or information warfare.
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C.
Base 26
Base 26 is a military installation under China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force, likely involved in space, cyber, electronic, or information warfare operations.
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D.
Base 30
Base 30 is a unit-level installation within China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force, likely involved in space, cyber, electronic, or information warfare operations.
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E.
Base 37
Base 37 is a unit within China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force, likely involved in specialized missions related to space, cyber, electronic, or information warfare.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballistic missile test facility
ⓘ
spaceport ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
TSLC
ⓘ
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Long March launch vehicle family
ⓘ
linked to:
Long March launch vehicles
|
| controlledBy |
Chinese government
ⓘ
linked to:
People's Republic of China government
|
| country | China ⓘ |
| distanceFromCoast | hundreds of kilometers ⓘ |
| environment | inland launch site ⓘ |
| hasCapability | launching multiple payloads per year ⓘ |
| hasLaunchPadsFor |
Long March 2C
ⓘ
Long March 4A ⓘ Long March 4B ⓘ Long March 4C ⓘ Long March rockets ⓘ
linked to:
Long March launch vehicles
|
| hasRunway | no ⓘ |
| hasWeatherConditions |
cold winters
ⓘ
dry climate ⓘ |
| infrastructureType |
integration buildings
ⓘ
launch complexes ⓘ propellant storage facilities ⓘ tracking and control facilities ⓘ |
| launchAzimuthsInclude | southward trajectories ⓘ |
| launchesFrom | Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center ⓘ |
| launchSafetyConsideration | downrange impact zones over sparsely populated areas ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Shanxi Province
ⓘ
Taiyuan ⓘ northern China ⓘ
linked to:
North China
|
| nearCity | Taiyuan ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
People's Liberation Army
ⓘ
People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force ⓘ |
| partOf | Chinese space program ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
launching Earth observation satellites
ⓘ
launching meteorological satellites ⓘ launching remote sensing satellites ⓘ |
| region |
Shanxi
ⓘ
linked to:
Shanxi Province
|
| securityLevel | military ⓘ |
| supportsOrbitType |
low Earth orbit
ⓘ
polar orbit ⓘ sun-synchronous orbit ⓘ |
| usedBy |
China National Space Administration
ⓘ
Chinese military ⓘ
linked to:
Chinese forces
|
| usedFor |
ballistic missile tests
ⓘ
polar orbit launches ⓘ satellite launches ⓘ sun-synchronous orbit launches ⓘ |
| usedSince | late 20th century ⓘ |
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: Base 25 Description of subject: Base 25 is a major Chinese spaceport and ballistic missile test facility located near Taiyuan in Shanxi Province, used primarily for launching satellites into polar and sun-synchronous orbits.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.