KSC LC-39A
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KSC LC-39A is a historic launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, used for major crewed missions from Apollo to SpaceX’s modern flights.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Launch Pad 39A | 8 |
| KSC LC-39A canonical | 4 |
| Launch Complex 39A | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2330323 — 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: KSC LC-39A Context triple: [Apollo 12, launchSite, KSC LC-39A]
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A.
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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B.
Cape Canaveral LC-37B
Cape Canaveral LC-37B is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, historically used for Saturn I/IB missions and currently serving as the launch site for United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV rockets.
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C.
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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D.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
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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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: KSC LC-39A Target entity description: KSC LC-39A is a historic launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, used for major crewed missions from Apollo to SpaceX’s modern flights.
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A.
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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B.
Cape Canaveral LC-37B
Cape Canaveral LC-37B is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, historically used for Saturn I/IB missions and currently serving as the launch site for United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV rockets.
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C.
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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D.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
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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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 (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rocket launch pad
ⓘ
spaceport infrastructure ⓘ |
| builtFor |
Apollo program
ⓘ
Saturn V ⓘ
surface form:
Saturn V rocket
|
| constructionStartDate | 1960s ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasCrewAccessArm | yes ⓘ |
| hasFlameTrench | yes ⓘ |
| hasLaunchTower | yes ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
launch site for early Space Shuttle missions
ⓘ
launch site for first crewed Moon landing mission Apollo 11 ⓘ launch site for first crewed SpaceX Dragon mission Demo-2 ⓘ launch site for first operational NASA Commercial Crew missions by SpaceX ⓘ launch site for multiple Apollo lunar missions ⓘ |
| launchesTo |
geostationary transfer orbit
ⓘ
low Earth orbit ⓘ translunar trajectory ⓘ |
| launchPadNumber | 39A ⓘ |
| leasedBy | SpaceX ⓘ |
| leasePurpose | commercial orbital launches ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Florida
ⓘ
Kennedy Space Center ⓘ Merritt Island ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| near | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| operator |
NASA
ⓘ
SpaceX ⓘ |
| ownedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
Eastern Range
ⓘ
Kennedy Space Center LC-39 ⓘ
surface form:
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
Launch Complex 39 ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| supportsRocket |
Falcon 9 rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon 9
Falcon Heavy rocket ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon Heavy
Saturn IB ⓘ Saturn V ⓘ Space Shuttle ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Apollo program launches
ⓘ
Commercial Crew Program launches ⓘ International Space Station crew missions ⓘ Space Shuttle ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle launches
SpaceX Falcon 9 launches ⓘ SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches ⓘ cargo resupply missions ⓘ crewed spaceflight launches ⓘ lunar mission launches ⓘ uncrewed space 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: KSC LC-39A Description of subject: KSC LC-39A is a historic launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, used for major crewed missions from Apollo to SpaceX’s modern flights.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Launch Complex 39A
this entity surface form:
Launch Pad 39A
this entity surface form:
Launch Pad 39A
this entity surface form:
Launch Pad 39A
this entity surface form:
Launch Pad 39A
subject surface form:
Vehicle Assembly Building
this entity surface form:
Launch Pad 39A
this entity surface form:
Launch Pad 39A
this entity surface form:
Launch Pad 39A
subject surface form:
Columbus laboratory