DSN
E136579
DSN is the acronym for NASA’s Deep Space Network, a global system of large radio antennas used to communicate with and track interplanetary spacecraft and distant space missions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DSN canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1197524 — 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: DSN Context triple: [Deep Space Network, abbreviation, DSN]
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A.
DB
DB is the commonly used abbreviation for Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national railway company and one of the largest rail operators in Europe.
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B.
DSI
DSI is the Deutsches SOFIA Institut, a German research institute dedicated to supporting and conducting astronomical observations with the SOFIA airborne observatory.
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C.
DBE
DBE is the title "Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire," a high-ranking honor awarded in the British honours system.
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D.
RDS
RDS is a Canadian French-language sports television network that broadcasts a wide range of professional and amateur sporting events.
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E.
DSS
DSS is the abbreviated name of the Securitate, the notorious secret police service of Communist Romania.
- 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: DSN Target entity description: DSN is the acronym for NASA’s Deep Space Network, a global system of large radio antennas used to communicate with and track interplanetary spacecraft and distant space missions.
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A.
DB
DB is the commonly used abbreviation for Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national railway company and one of the largest rail operators in Europe.
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B.
DSI
DSI is the Deutsches SOFIA Institut, a German research institute dedicated to supporting and conducting astronomical observations with the SOFIA airborne observatory.
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C.
DBE
DBE is the title "Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire," a high-ranking honor awarded in the British honours system.
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D.
RDS
RDS is a Canadian French-language sports television network that broadcasts a wide range of professional and amateur sporting events.
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E.
DSS
DSS is the abbreviated name of the Securitate, the notorious secret police service of Communist Romania.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA network
ⓘ
space communication network ⓘ |
| acronym | DSN self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| enables | near-continuous communication with deep space spacecraft ⓘ |
| globalCoverage | approximately 120 degrees separation between complexes ⓘ |
| hasAntennaType |
34-meter beam waveguide antenna
ⓘ
34-meter high-efficiency antenna ⓘ 70-meter antenna ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex
ⓘ
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex ⓘ Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex ⓘ |
| location |
Goldstone, California
ⓘ
surface form:
Goldstone, California, United States
Robledo de Chavela, near Madrid, Spain ⓘ Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve ⓘ
surface form:
Tidbinbilla, near Canberra, Australia
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| managedBy |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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| notableMissionSupported |
Cassini–Huygens
ⓘ
James Webb Space Telescope ⓘ Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ⓘ Mars Science Laboratory ⓘ New Horizons ⓘ Parker Solar Probe ⓘ Voyager program ⓘ |
| operator |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
ⓘ
NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA Space Communications and Navigation program ⓘ |
| predecessor | JPL’s early deep space tracking stations ⓘ |
| providesService |
Doppler tracking
ⓘ
ranging ⓘ telecommand uplink ⓘ telemetry reception ⓘ very long baseline interferometry ⓘ |
| purpose |
communicate with interplanetary spacecraft
ⓘ
receive scientific data from deep space missions ⓘ support human spaceflight missions beyond Earth orbit ⓘ support radio and radar astronomy ⓘ support spacecraft navigation ⓘ track interplanetary spacecraft ⓘ transmit commands to spacecraft ⓘ |
| startOfOperation | 1960s ⓘ |
| supportsFrequencyBand |
Ka-band
ⓘ
S-band ⓘ UHF ⓘ X-band ⓘ |
| supportsMissionType |
Earth-orbiting missions requiring high sensitivity
ⓘ
deep space probes ⓘ interplanetary missions ⓘ lunar missions ⓘ solar missions ⓘ |
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: DSN Description of subject: DSN is the acronym for NASA’s Deep Space Network, a global system of large radio antennas used to communicate with and track interplanetary spacecraft and distant space missions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.