Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 is a major launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast used primarily by SpaceX for Falcon 9 missions to low Earth orbit and beyond.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1734120 — 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: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 Context triple: [Deep Space Climate Observatory, launchSite, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40]
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Launch Complex 39
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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E.
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.
- 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: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 Target entity description: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 is a major launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast used primarily by SpaceX for Falcon 9 missions to low Earth orbit and beyond.
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Launch Complex 39
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
orbital launch complex
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rocket launch site ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| formerLaunchVehicle |
Titan III
ⓘ
Titan IV ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
RP-1 kerosene storage tanks
ⓘ
flame trench ⓘ lightning protection system ⓘ liquid oxygen storage tanks ⓘ sound suppression system ⓘ |
| hasLaunchMount |
Orbital Launch Mount
ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon 9 launch mount
|
| hasLaunchPadNumber | 40 ⓘ |
| hasStrongback | Falcon 9 transporter-erector ⓘ |
| hasUser |
NASA
ⓘ
commercial satellite operators ⓘ |
| launchAzimuth | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| launchProvider | SpaceX ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brevard County, Florida
NERFINISHED
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Cape Canaveral ⓘ Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ⓘ Florida ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Space Coast ⓘ |
| nearbyFacility |
Kennedy Space Center
ⓘ
Space Launch Complex 37B ⓘ Cape Canaveral LC-41 ⓘ
surface form:
Space Launch Complex 41
|
| operator |
SpaceX
ⓘ
United States Space Force ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Department of Defense
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Department of Defense
United States government ⓘ |
| partOf | Eastern Range ⓘ |
| primaryLaunchVehicle |
Falcon 9 rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon 9
|
| status | active ⓘ |
| supportsMissionType |
Earth observation missions
ⓘ
communications satellite missions ⓘ science missions ⓘ |
| supportsOrbitType |
geostationary transfer orbit
ⓘ
heliocentric orbit ⓘ low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| supportsRocketFamily | Falcon rocket family ⓘ |
| usedBy |
United States Armed Forces
ⓘ
surface form:
United States military
commercial customers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Falcon 9 launches
ⓘ
NASA Commercial Crew Program test missions ⓘ NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions ⓘ cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station ⓘ commercial satellite launches ⓘ interplanetary missions ⓘ missions to geostationary transfer orbit ⓘ missions to low Earth orbit ⓘ orbital 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: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 Description of subject: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 is a major launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast used primarily by SpaceX for Falcon 9 missions to low Earth orbit and beyond.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Deep Space Climate Observatory
→
launchSite
→
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Cape Canaveral LC-40
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
→
launchSite
→
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
ⓘ
subject surface form:
DSCOVR
this entity surface form:
Space Launch Complex 40
this entity surface form:
Cape Canaveral Air Station Space Launch Complex 40
Titan IVB/Centaur
→
launchSiteOfCassini–Huygens
→
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Cape Canaveral Air Station Space Launch Complex 40
subject surface form:
SpaceX
this entity surface form:
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
subject surface form:
SpaceX
this entity surface form:
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station SLC-40
Commercial Resupply Services 1 (CRS-1)
→
launchSite
→
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
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subject surface form:
Commercial Resupply Services 1
this entity surface form:
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
subject surface form:
Titan IV