Salyut 1
E304017
Salyut 1 was the world’s first space station, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971 as a pioneering long-duration orbital laboratory.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salyut 1 canonical | 2 |
| Salyut DOS-1 | 1 |
| Salyut program | 1 |
| Salyut space stations | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2779898 — 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: Salyut 1 Context triple: [Soviet space program, launched, Salyut 1]
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A.
Vostok 1
Vostok 1 was the Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight, marking humanity’s inaugural journey into outer space in 1961.
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B.
Voskhod spacecraft
The Voskhod spacecraft was a Soviet crewed space capsule that succeeded Vostok and enabled milestones such as the first multi-person crewed mission and the first spacewalk during the early space race.
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C.
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 and marking the beginning of the space age.
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D.
Vostok 4
Vostok 4 was a 1962 Soviet crewed spaceflight that, together with Vostok 3, conducted the first simultaneous multi-spacecraft mission in orbit.
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E.
Vostok spacecraft
The Vostok spacecraft was the Soviet Union’s pioneering series of crewed space capsules that carried the first humans, including Yuri Gagarin, into orbit during the early 1960s.
- 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: Salyut 1 Target entity description: Salyut 1 was the world’s first space station, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971 as a pioneering long-duration orbital laboratory.
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A.
Vostok 1
Vostok 1 was the Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight, marking humanity’s inaugural journey into outer space in 1961.
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B.
Voskhod spacecraft
The Voskhod spacecraft was a Soviet crewed space capsule that succeeded Vostok and enabled milestones such as the first multi-person crewed mission and the first spacewalk during the early space race.
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C.
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 and marking the beginning of the space age.
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D.
Vostok 4
Vostok 4 was a 1962 Soviet crewed spaceflight that, together with Vostok 3, conducted the first simultaneous multi-spacecraft mission in orbit.
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E.
Vostok spacecraft
The Vostok spacecraft was the Soviet Union’s pioneering series of crewed space capsules that carried the first humans, including Yuri Gagarin, into orbit during the early 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet space station
ⓘ
orbital laboratory ⓘ space station ⓘ |
| apogeeAltitude | about 222 kilometres (initial) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crewCapacity | 3 ⓘ |
| deactivationDate | 1971-10-11 ⓘ |
| designer |
Sergei Korolev design bureau
ⓘ
surface form:
Sergei Korolev’s design bureau (OKB-1)
|
| diameter | 4.15 metres (maximum, approximate) ⓘ |
| dockingPorts | 2 ⓘ |
| firstCrewedMission | Soyuz 10 ⓘ |
| firstCrewedMissionDate | 1971-04-22 ⓘ |
| firstCrewedMissionOutcome | unsuccessful docking attempt ⓘ |
| firstOf | world’s first space station ⓘ |
| firstSuccessfulCrewedMission | Soyuz 11 ⓘ |
| firstSuccessfulCrewedMissionDate | 1971-06-07 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1971-04-19 ⓘ |
| launchRocket |
Proton rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
Proton-K
|
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome
ⓘ
Baikonur Cosmodrome ⓘ
surface form:
Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 81/24
|
| launchVehicle |
Proton rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
Proton-K rocket
|
| launchYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| length | 15.8 metres (approximate) ⓘ |
| lifeSupport | closed-loop environmental control system ⓘ |
| longestMission | Soyuz 11 crew stay ⓘ |
| longestMissionDuration | about 23 days ⓘ |
| manufacturer | OKB-1 ⓘ |
| massAtLaunch | 18000 kilograms (approximate) ⓘ |
| moduleConfiguration |
auxiliary instrument compartment
ⓘ
main work compartment ⓘ transfer compartment ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
associated with fatal reentry accident of Soyuz 11 crew
ⓘ
hosted first long-duration crewed stay on a space station ⓘ |
| operator | Soviet space program ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod | about 88.5 minutes ⓘ |
| orbitInclination | about 51.6 degrees ⓘ |
| orbitRegime | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| perigeeAltitude | about 200 kilometres (initial) ⓘ |
| powerSource | solar panels ⓘ |
| pressurizedVolume | about 90 cubic metres ⓘ |
| program |
Salyut space stations
ⓘ
surface form:
Salyut programme
|
| purpose |
long-duration human spaceflight
ⓘ
orbital scientific research ⓘ |
| reentryDate | 1971-10-11 ⓘ |
| reentryLocation | over the Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| reentryType | controlled deorbit ⓘ |
| spacecraftType |
Salyut 1
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Salyut DOS-1
|
| status | deorbited ⓘ |
| successor |
Salyut 2
ⓘ
Salyut 3 ⓘ |
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: Salyut 1 Description of subject: Salyut 1 was the world’s first space station, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971 as a pioneering long-duration orbital laboratory.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Salyut space stations
this entity surface form:
Salyut program
this entity surface form:
Salyut DOS-1