Luna spacecraft
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The Luna spacecraft were a series of Soviet robotic probes launched between the late 1950s and 1970s that achieved many lunar exploration firsts, including the first human-made object to reach the Moon and the first soft landing on its surface.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Luna spacecraft canonical | 2 |
| Luna E-1 No.3 | 1 |
| Luna E-1 series | 1 |
| Luna E-2 series | 1 |
| Luna deep-space probes | 1 |
| Luna series of spacecraft | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2779943 — 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: Luna spacecraft Context triple: [OKB-1, developed, Luna spacecraft]
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A.
Luna 11
Luna 11 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft from the Luna program, launched in 1966 to study the Moon from lunar orbit.
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B.
Luna 9
Luna 9 was a Soviet spacecraft that achieved the first successful soft landing on the Moon and transmitted the first close-up images of the lunar surface in 1966.
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C.
SLIM lunar lander
The SLIM lunar lander is a Japanese spacecraft designed by JAXA to demonstrate high-precision, lightweight landing technology on the Moon’s surface.
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D.
Moon Impact Probe
The Moon Impact Probe was a small Indian lunar probe designed to detach from the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and intentionally crash onto the Moon’s surface to conduct scientific measurements and demonstrate landing technologies.
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E.
Luna 10
Luna 10 was a Soviet spacecraft that became the first artificial satellite to orbit the Moon, marking a major milestone in early lunar exploration.
- 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: Luna spacecraft Target entity description: The Luna spacecraft were a series of Soviet robotic probes launched between the late 1950s and 1970s that achieved many lunar exploration firsts, including the first human-made object to reach the Moon and the first soft landing on its surface.
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A.
Luna 11
Luna 11 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft from the Luna program, launched in 1966 to study the Moon from lunar orbit.
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B.
Luna 9
Luna 9 was a Soviet spacecraft that achieved the first successful soft landing on the Moon and transmitted the first close-up images of the lunar surface in 1966.
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C.
SLIM lunar lander
The SLIM lunar lander is a Japanese spacecraft designed by JAXA to demonstrate high-precision, lightweight landing technology on the Moon’s surface.
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D.
Moon Impact Probe
The Moon Impact Probe was a small Indian lunar probe designed to detach from the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and intentionally crash onto the Moon’s surface to conduct scientific measurements and demonstrate landing technologies.
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E.
Luna 10
Luna 10 was a Soviet spacecraft that became the first artificial satellite to orbit the Moon, marking a major milestone in early lunar exploration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (75)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
series of robotic lunar probes
ⓘ
spacecraft program ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| destination | Moon ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Luna 1
ⓘ
Luna 10 ⓘ Luna 11 ⓘ Luna 12 ⓘ Luna 13 ⓘ Luna 14 ⓘ Luna 15 ⓘ Luna 16 ⓘ Luna 17 ⓘ Luna 18 ⓘ Luna 19 ⓘ Luna 2 ⓘ Luna 20 ⓘ Luna 21 ⓘ Luna 22 ⓘ Luna 23 ⓘ Luna 24 ⓘ Luna 25 ⓘ Luna 26 ⓘ Luna 27 ⓘ Luna 28 ⓘ Luna 3 ⓘ Luna 4 ⓘ Luna 5 ⓘ Luna 6 ⓘ Luna 7 ⓘ Luna 8 ⓘ Luna 9 ⓘ Luna spacecraft self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Luna E-1 series
Luna spacecraft self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Luna E-2 series
Luna E-3 series ⓘ Ye-6 series lunar landers ⓘ
surface form:
Luna E-6 series
Ye-6 series lunar landers ⓘ
surface form:
Luna E-6M series
Luna E-7 series ⓘ Luna Ye-8 series ⓘ Luna Ye-8 series ⓘ
surface form:
Luna Ye-8-5 series
Luna Ye-8 series ⓘ
surface form:
Luna Ye-8-5M series
Luna Ye-8 series ⓘ
surface form:
Luna Ye-8LS series
|
| launchVehicleUsed |
Molniya-M rocket
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surface form:
Molniya rocket family
Proton rocket ⓘ
surface form:
Proton rocket family
Vostok-L rocket ⓘ
surface form:
Vostok rocket family
|
| locationOfLaunch | Baikonur Cosmodrome ⓘ |
| missionType |
flyby
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impact ⓘ lander ⓘ orbiter ⓘ rover ⓘ sample return ⓘ |
| notableFor |
first human-made object to impact the Moon
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first human-made object to reach the Moon ⓘ first images of the far side of the Moon ⓘ first lunar orbiter from Earth ⓘ first robotic sample return from the Moon ⓘ first soft landing on the Moon ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
OKB-1
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Soviet Academy of Sciences ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ |
| operator | Soviet space program ⓘ |
| partOf |
Luna programme
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surface form:
Soviet lunar program
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| primaryTarget |
lunar orbit
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lunar surface ⓘ |
| programEndDate | 1976 ⓘ |
| programStartDate | 1958 ⓘ |
| relatedProgram |
Apollo program
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Lunokhod programme ⓘ
surface form:
Lunokhod program
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| scientificObjective |
return lunar soil samples to Earth
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study Moon's environment ⓘ study Moon's surface ⓘ test lunar landing techniques ⓘ |
| spaceAgency |
Soviet space program
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surface form:
Soviet space agency
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Luna spacecraft Description of subject: The Luna spacecraft were a series of Soviet robotic probes launched between the late 1950s and 1970s that achieved many lunar exploration firsts, including the first human-made object to reach the Moon and the first soft landing on its surface.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Luna E-1 No.3
this entity surface form:
Luna deep-space probes
this entity surface form:
Luna E-1 series
this entity surface form:
Luna E-2 series