Pirs
E951149
Pirs was a Russian docking compartment and airlock module on the International Space Station used for spacecraft docking and spacewalks.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pirs canonical | 3 |
| Pirs module | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11871439 — 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: Pirs Context triple: [ISS US Orbital Segment, includesModule, Pirs]
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A.
Piro
Piro is an alternate name for the Yine language, an indigenous Arawakan language spoken in Peru.
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B.
Piro
Piro is a town in the Bhojpur district of Bihar, India, known as one of the district’s principal urban and commercial centers.
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C.
Pirk
Pirk is a small municipality in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, Germany.
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D.
Pirekua
Pirekua is a traditional lyrical song genre of the Purépecha people of Mexico, known for its slow, melodic style and cultural significance in expressing community identity and history.
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E.
Piravom
Piravom is a small town in the Indian state of Kerala known for its temples, churches, and scenic location along the Muvattupuzha River.
- 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: Pirs Target entity description: Pirs was a Russian docking compartment and airlock module on the International Space Station used for spacecraft docking and spacewalks.
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A.
Piro
Piro is an alternate name for the Yine language, an indigenous Arawakan language spoken in Peru.
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B.
Piro
Piro is a town in the Bhojpur district of Bihar, India, known as one of the district’s principal urban and commercial centers.
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C.
Pirk
Pirk is a small municipality in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, Germany.
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D.
Pirekua
Pirekua is a traditional lyrical song genre of the Purépecha people of Mexico, known for its slow, melodic style and cultural significance in expressing community identity and history.
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E.
Piravom
Piravom is a small town in the Indian state of Kerala known for its temples, churches, and scenic location along the Muvattupuzha River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISS module
ⓘ
airlock ⓘ docking compartment ⓘ space station module ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
DC-1
ⓘ
Docking Compartment-1 ⓘ
linked to:
Pirs docking compartment
|
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| deorbitDate | 2021-07-26 ⓘ |
| deorbitedWith | Progress MS-16 ⓘ |
| deorbitMethod | controlled reentry ⓘ |
| dockingPortsCount | 2 ⓘ |
| function |
airlock for spacewalks
ⓘ
spacecraft docking ⓘ support for extravehicular activity ⓘ |
| hadAirlock | yes ⓘ |
| launchCountry | Kazakhstan ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2001-09-14 ⓘ |
| launchOperator | Roscosmos ⓘ |
| launchSite | Baikonur Cosmodrome ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Soyuz-U ⓘ |
| manufacturer | RKK Energia ⓘ |
| moduleType | Russian docking module ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Russian word "Pirs" meaning "pier" ⓘ |
| operator | Roscosmos ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| partOf |
ISS Russian Orbital Segment
ⓘ
linked to:
Russian Orbital Segment
International Space Station ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Multipurpose Laboratory Module
ⓘ
linked to:
Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
Nauka ⓘ |
| segment | Russian Orbital Segment ⓘ |
| spaceStation | International Space Station ⓘ |
| status | deorbited ⓘ |
| supportedEVAFrom | Russian Orlan spacesuits ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Russian segment spacewalks
ⓘ
docking of Progress spacecraft ⓘ docking of Soyuz spacecraft ⓘ |
| usesLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| wasAttachedTo |
ISS Service Module aft port
ⓘ
Zvezda ⓘ |
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: Pirs Description of subject: Pirs was a Russian docking compartment and airlock module on the International Space Station used for spacecraft docking and spacewalks.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pirs
linked to: Pirs
linked to: Pirs