Uchinoura Space Center
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Uchinoura Space Center is a Japanese launch facility in Kagoshima Prefecture used primarily for scientific satellites and sounding rocket missions.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uchinoura Space Center canonical | 18 |
| Kagoshima Space Center | 3 |
| Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center | 1 |
| Osaki Launch Complex | 1 |
| Uchinoura Space Center launch complex | 1 |
| Uchinoura Space Center, JAXA | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T727704 — 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: Uchinoura Space Center Context triple: [Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, owns, Uchinoura Space Center]
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A.
Tanegashima Space Center
Tanegashima Space Center is Japan’s primary space launch complex, located on Tanegashima Island and used for launching satellites and other spacecraft into orbit.
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B.
JAXA Tsukuba Space Center
The JAXA Tsukuba Space Center is Japan’s primary space research and mission control facility, responsible for operating and managing many of the nation’s satellite and human spaceflight activities.
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C.
Guiana Space Centre
The Guiana Space Centre is a major European spaceport located in French Guiana, used for launching a wide range of commercial and scientific missions including flagship observatories.
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D.
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome is the historic Soviet and now Russian-operated spaceport in Kazakhstan from which the first human spaceflight, carrying Yuri Gagarin, was launched.
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E.
Vostochny Cosmodrome
Vostochny Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport in the Amur Oblast designed to reduce Russia’s dependence on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and support a wide range of civilian space launches.
- 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: Uchinoura Space Center Target entity description: Uchinoura Space Center is a Japanese launch facility in Kagoshima Prefecture used primarily for scientific satellites and sounding rocket missions.
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A.
Tanegashima Space Center
Tanegashima Space Center is Japan’s primary space launch complex, located on Tanegashima Island and used for launching satellites and other spacecraft into orbit.
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B.
JAXA Tsukuba Space Center
The JAXA Tsukuba Space Center is Japan’s primary space research and mission control facility, responsible for operating and managing many of the nation’s satellite and human spaceflight activities.
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C.
Guiana Space Centre
The Guiana Space Centre is a major European spaceport located in French Guiana, used for launching a wide range of commercial and scientific missions including flagship observatories.
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D.
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome is the historic Soviet and now Russian-operated spaceport in Kazakhstan from which the first human spaceflight, carrying Yuri Gagarin, was launched.
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E.
Vostochny Cosmodrome
Vostochny Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport in the Amur Oblast designed to reduce Russia’s dependence on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and support a wide range of civilian space launches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rocket launch site
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spaceport ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| formerlyKnownAs |
Kagoshima Space Center
ⓘ
linked to:
Uchinoura Space Center
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| hasAlternativeName |
USC
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Uchinoura Space Center, JAXA ⓘ
linked to:
Uchinoura Space Center
|
| hasFacility |
mission control facilities
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optical tracking systems ⓘ payload preparation facilities ⓘ radar tracking systems ⓘ solid-fuel launch complex ⓘ sounding rocket launch complex ⓘ tracking and telemetry station ⓘ |
| launchAzimuthRange | primarily eastward over the Pacific ⓘ |
| launchesFromHere |
Epsilon rocket
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linked to:
Epsilon launch vehicle
M-V rocket ⓘ Mu series rockets ⓘ S-160 sounding rocket ⓘ S-210 sounding rocket ⓘ S-310 sounding rocket ⓘ S-520 sounding rocket ⓘ SS-520 sounding rocket ⓘ sounding rockets ⓘ |
| launchPadCount | multiple launch pads ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Kagoshima Prefecture ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Kyushu ⓘ |
| location | Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan ⓘ |
| nearbyBodyOfWater | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Japanese scientific satellite launches
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small and medium-class solid-fuel launch vehicles ⓘ |
| operator |
JAXA
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linked to:
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Government of Japan ⓘ |
| partOf | JAXA ground and launch network ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
scientific satellite launches
ⓘ
sounding rocket launches ⓘ |
| supportsOrbitType |
highly elliptical scientific orbits
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low Earth orbit ⓘ sun-synchronous orbit ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Japanese space science community
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international scientific collaborations ⓘ |
| usedFor |
astronomy missions
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ionospheric research ⓘ space science missions ⓘ technology demonstration missions ⓘ upper atmosphere research ⓘ |
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: Uchinoura Space Center Description of subject: Uchinoura Space Center is a Japanese launch facility in Kagoshima Prefecture used primarily for scientific satellites and sounding rocket missions.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hayabusa spacecraft
linked to: Uchinoura Space Center
linked to: Uchinoura Space Center
subject linked to:
Akari (infrared satellite)
linked to: Uchinoura Space Center
linked to: Uchinoura Space Center
linked to: Uchinoura Space Center
subject linked to:
SS-520 sounding rocket
subject linked to:
SS-520 sounding rocket
linked to: Uchinoura Space Center