Surveyor 6
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Surveyor 6 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully soft-landed on the Moon in 1967 and became the first spacecraft to lift off from one part of the lunar surface and reposition itself to another.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Surveyor 6 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11509350 — 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: Surveyor 6 Context triple: [Surveyor program, missionDesignation, Surveyor 6]
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A.
Surveyor 7
Surveyor 7 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully touched down on the Moon in 1968 to conduct scientific experiments and surface imaging.
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B.
Surveyor 5
Surveyor 5 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully analyzed the Moon’s surface as part of the Surveyor program in 1967.
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C.
Surveyor 3
Surveyor 3 was a 1967 NASA robotic lunar lander that successfully touched down on the Moon to test landing techniques and analyze the lunar surface ahead of the Apollo missions.
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D.
Surveyor 4
Surveyor 4 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander launched in 1967 as part of the Surveyor program to test soft-landing techniques and study the Moon’s surface.
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E.
Surveyor 2
Surveyor 2 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander launched in 1966 as part of the Surveyor program, intended to test soft-landing techniques on the Moon but lost due to a mid-course correction failure.
- 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: Surveyor 6 Target entity description: Surveyor 6 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully soft-landed on the Moon in 1967 and became the first spacecraft to lift off from one part of the lunar surface and reposition itself to another.
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A.
Surveyor 7
Surveyor 7 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully touched down on the Moon in 1968 to conduct scientific experiments and surface imaging.
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B.
Surveyor 5
Surveyor 5 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully analyzed the Moon’s surface as part of the Surveyor program in 1967.
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C.
Surveyor 3
Surveyor 3 was a 1967 NASA robotic lunar lander that successfully touched down on the Moon to test landing techniques and analyze the lunar surface ahead of the Apollo missions.
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D.
Surveyor 4
Surveyor 4 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander launched in 1967 as part of the Surveyor program to test soft-landing techniques and study the Moon’s surface.
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E.
Surveyor 2
Surveyor 2 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander launched in 1966 as part of the Surveyor program, intended to test soft-landing techniques on the Moon but lost due to a mid-course correction failure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA space probe
ⓘ
spacecraft ⓘ unmanned lunar lander ⓘ |
| communicationBand | S-band ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| destination | Moon ⓘ |
| epoch | early lunar exploration era ⓘ |
| followedBy | Surveyor 7 ⓘ |
| hopAltitude | about 3–4 meters ⓘ |
| hopDistance | about 2.5 meters ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1967-11-10 ⓘ |
| landingMethod | retro-rocket soft landing ⓘ |
| landingRegion | central near side of the Moon ⓘ |
| landingSite | Sinus Medii ⓘ |
| lastContactDate | 1967-12-14 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1967-11-07 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Cape Kennedy LC-36B ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlas LV-3C Centaur
|
| lunarLatitude | 0.49° N ⓘ |
| lunarLongitude | 1.40° W ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Hughes Aircraft Company ⓘ |
| massAtLaunch | approximately 1000 kilograms ⓘ |
| massOnLanding | approximately 300 kilograms ⓘ |
| missionDurationOnSurface | about 17 days ⓘ |
| missionObjective |
measure lunar surface mechanical properties
ⓘ
obtain close-up television images of the lunar surface ⓘ perform soft landing on the Moon ⓘ support Apollo program landing site selection ⓘ test spacecraft and landing technologies for future lunar missions ⓘ |
| missionType | lunar lander ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first lunar surface hop maneuver by a spacecraft
ⓘ
first spacecraft to lift off from one part of the lunar surface and reposition itself to another ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| payload |
soil mechanics surface sampler
ⓘ
television camera ⓘ |
| powerSource |
batteries
ⓘ
solar panels ⓘ |
| precededBy | Surveyor 5 ⓘ |
| program | Surveyor program ⓘ |
| relatedProgram | Apollo program ⓘ |
| seriesPosition | fourth successful Surveyor lunar lander ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | Surveyor lander bus ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | robotic lunar lander ⓘ |
| status | mission completed ⓘ |
| targetBody | Moon ⓘ |
| televisionImagesReturned | over 30000 images ⓘ |
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: Surveyor 6 Description of subject: Surveyor 6 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully soft-landed on the Moon in 1967 and became the first spacecraft to lift off from one part of the lunar surface and reposition itself to another.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.