Launch Complex 39
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Launch Complex 39 is a major NASA launch facility at Kennedy Space Center, best known as the departure site for Apollo Moon missions and Space Shuttle flights.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1523552 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Launch Complex 39 Context triple: [Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A, partOf, Launch Complex 39]
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Launch Complex 39C
Launch Complex 39C is a small launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center designed to support launches of small-class commercial and government rockets.
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A is a historic Florida launch pad used for major U.S. crewed space missions, including Apollo Moon landings, Space Shuttle flights, and current SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches.
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C.
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B is a historic NASA launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast, originally built for Apollo missions and later used for Space Shuttle launches and current Artemis program flights.
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Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36 is a historic Florida launch site that supported numerous NASA and commercial Atlas-Centaur rocket missions, including early planetary and communications satellite launches.
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E.
Cape Canaveral LC-41
Cape Canaveral LC-41 is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, historically used for major NASA and interplanetary missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Launch Complex 39 Target entity description: Launch Complex 39 is a major NASA launch facility at Kennedy Space Center, best known as the departure site for Apollo Moon missions and Space Shuttle flights.
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A.
Launch Complex 39C
Launch Complex 39C is a small launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center designed to support launches of small-class commercial and government rockets.
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B.
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A is a historic Florida launch pad used for major U.S. crewed space missions, including Apollo Moon landings, Space Shuttle flights, and current SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches.
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C.
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B is a historic NASA launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast, originally built for Apollo missions and later used for Space Shuttle launches and current Artemis program flights.
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Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36 is a historic Florida launch site that supported numerous NASA and commercial Atlas-Centaur rocket missions, including early planetary and communications satellite launches.
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E.
Cape Canaveral LC-41
Cape Canaveral LC-41 is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, historically used for major NASA and interplanetary missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rocket launch site
ⓘ
spaceport facility ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Kennedy Space Center
ⓘ
surface form:
Kennedy Space Center Industrial Area
NASA Causeway ⓘ |
| constructedFor |
Saturn V
ⓘ
surface form:
Saturn V rocket
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era |
Apollo era
ⓘ
Space Shuttle era ⓘ post-Shuttle commercial era ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
emergency egress systems
ⓘ
fixed service structures ⓘ propellant storage and transfer systems ⓘ sound suppression systems ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Crawler-Transporter 2
ⓘ
surface form:
Crawler-Transporters
Crawlerway ⓘ Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A ⓘ
surface form:
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B ⓘ
surface form:
Launch Complex 39B
Launch Complex 39C ⓘ Launch Control Center ⓘ Mobile Launcher 2 ⓘ
surface form:
Mobile Launcher Platforms
Vehicle Assembly Building ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
central role in U.S. lunar landing program
ⓘ
central role in U.S. reusable spacecraft operations ⓘ |
| launchInfrastructureType | integrated launch complex ⓘ |
| launchPads | 2 main pads ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brevard County, Florida
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Merritt Island ⓘ
surface form:
Merritt Island, Florida
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| managedBy |
NASA Launch Services Program
ⓘ
surface form:
Kennedy Space Center Launch Services Program
|
| notableFor |
Apollo Moon mission departures
ⓘ
Space Shuttle program departures ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| ownedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | Kennedy Space Center ⓘ |
| primaryPadFor |
Apollo program
ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo lunar missions
Space Shuttle launches from Kennedy Space Center ⓘ |
| supports |
crewed spaceflight missions
ⓘ
uncrewed spaceflight missions ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Apollo program launches
ⓘ
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project launch ⓘ Artemis program launches ⓘ Falcon 9 launches ⓘ Falcon Heavy launches ⓘ Saturn IB launches ⓘ Saturn V launches ⓘ Skylab program launches ⓘ Space Launch System launches ⓘ Space Shuttle launches ⓘ |
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: Launch Complex 39 Description of subject: Launch Complex 39 is a major NASA launch facility at Kennedy Space Center, best known as the departure site for Apollo Moon missions and Space Shuttle flights.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
this entity surface form:
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
this entity surface form:
Kennedy Space Center launch complex
this entity surface form:
Launch Complex 39 area
this entity surface form:
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 area
this entity surface form:
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 infrastructure
subject surface form:
Launch Pad 39A
this entity surface form:
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
subject surface form:
Launch Pad 39B
this entity surface form:
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
this entity surface form:
Launch Complex 39A
this entity surface form:
Launch Complex 39 ground support infrastructure
this entity surface form:
Launch Complex 39A
this entity surface form:
Launch Complex 39 launch pads